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R Data Mining

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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
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Epilogue

User interface


Until now, we have been looking at the back office of our data mining architecture, which is the part not directly visible to its end user. Imagine this architecture is provided to be employed by someone not skilled enough to work on the data mining engine itself; we will need some way to let this user interact with the architecture in the right way, and discover the results of its interaction. This is what a user interface is all about.

In times when data mining is getting more and more popular every day, a big question is how to make it accessible to a great portion of professionals not classifiable as programmers and statisticians. This is where the user interfaces play a big role.

Even if user interface design is beyond the scope of this book, let's discover some well-established principles of good user interface design, so that you can apply them to evaluate alternative user interfaces and products you could come across on your data mining journey.

Clarity

This principle...