R Data Mining
R Data Mining
Overview of this book
R is widely used to leverage data mining techniques across many different industries, including finance, medicine, scientific research, and more. This book will empower you to produce and present impressive analyses from data, by selecting and implementing the appropriate data mining techniques in R.
It will let you gain these powerful skills while immersing in a one of a kind data mining crime case, where you will be requested to help resolving a real fraud case affecting a commercial company, by the mean of both basic and advanced data mining techniques.
While moving along the plot of the story you will effectively learn and practice on real data the various R packages commonly employed for this kind of tasks. You will also get the chance of apply some of the most popular and effective data mining models and algos, from the basic multiple linear regression to the most advanced Support Vector Machines. Unlike other data mining learning instruments, this book will effectively expose you the theory behind these models, their relevant assumptions and when they can be applied to the data you are facing. By the end of the book you will hold a new and powerful toolbox of instruments, exactly knowing when and how to employ each of them to solve your data mining problems and get the most out of your data.
Finally, to let you maximize the exposure to the concepts described and the learning process, the book comes packed with a reproducible bundle of commented R scripts and a practical set of data mining models cheat sheets.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
Why to Choose R for Your Data Mining and Where to Start
A First Primer on Data Mining Analysing Your Bank Account Data
The Data Mining Process - CRISP-DM Methodology
Keeping the House Clean – The Data Mining Architecture
How to Address a Data Mining Problem – Data Cleaning and Validation
Looking into Your Data Eyes – Exploratory Data Analysis
Our First Guess – a Linear Regression
A Gentle Introduction to Model Performance Evaluation
Don't Give up – Power up Your Regression Including Multiple Variables
A Different Outlook to Problems with Classification Models
The Final Clash – Random Forests and Ensemble Learning
Looking for the Culprit – Text Data Mining with R
Sharing Your Stories with Your Stakeholders through R Markdown
Epilogue
Dealing with Dates, Relative Paths and Functions
Customer Reviews