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R Data Analysis Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Kuntal Ganguly, Shanthi Viswanathan, Viswa Viswanathan

Book Image

R Data Analysis Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Kuntal Ganguly, Shanthi Viswanathan, Viswa Viswanathan

Overview of this book

Data analytics with R has emerged as a very important focus for organizations of all kinds. R enables even those with only an intuitive grasp of the underlying concepts, without a deep mathematical background, to unleash powerful and detailed examinations of their data. This book will show you how you can put your data analysis skills in R to practical use, with recipes catering to the basic as well as advanced data analysis tasks. Right from acquiring your data and preparing it for analysis to the more complex data analysis techniques, the book will show you how you can implement each technique in the best possible manner. You will also visualize your data using the popular R packages like ggplot2 and gain hidden insights from it. Starting with implementing the basic data analysis concepts like handling your data to creating basic plots, you will master the more advanced data analysis techniques like performing cluster analysis, and generating effective analysis reports and visualizations. Throughout the book, you will get to know the common problems and obstacles you might encounter while implementing each of the data analysis techniques in R, with ways to overcoming them in the easiest possible way. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge you need to become an expert in data analysis with R, and put your skills to test in real-world scenarios.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

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Acquire and Prepare the Ingredients - Your Data

Acquire and Prepare the Ingredients - Your Data

Working with data

Reading data from CSV files

Reading XML data

Reading JSON data

Reading data from fixed-width formatted files

Reading data from R files and R libraries

Removing cases with missing values

Replacing missing values with the mean

Removing duplicate cases

Rescaling a variable to specified min-max range

Normalizing or standardizing data in a data frame

Binning numerical data

Creating dummies for categorical variables

Handling missing data

Correcting data

Detecting outliers

What's in There - Exploratory Data Analysis

What's in There - Exploratory Data Analysis

Creating standard data summaries

Extracting a subset of a dataset

Splitting a dataset

Creating random data partitions

Generating standard plots, such as histograms, boxplots, and scatterplots

Generating multiple plots on a grid

Creating plots with the lattice package

Creating charts that facilitate comparisons

Creating charts that help to visualize possible causality

Where Does It Belong? Classification

Where Does It Belong? Classification

Generating error/classification confusion matrices

Principal Component Analysis

Generating receiver operating characteristic charts

Building, plotting, and evaluating with classification trees

Using random forest models for classification

Classifying using the support vector machine approach

Classifying using the Naive Bayes approach

Classifying using the KNN approach

Using neural networks for classification

Classifying using linear discriminant function analysis

Classifying using logistic regression

Text classification for sentiment analysis

Give Me a Number - Regression

Give Me a Number - Regression

Computing the root-mean-square error

Building KNN models for regression

Performing linear regression

Performing variable selection in linear regression

Building regression trees

Building random forest models for regression

Using neural networks for regression

Performing k-fold cross-validation

Performing leave-one-out cross-validation to limit overfitting

Can you Simplify That? Data Reduction Techniques

Can you Simplify That? Data Reduction Techniques

Performing cluster analysis using hierarchical clustering

Performing cluster analysis using partitioning clustering

Image segmentation using mini-batch K-means

Partitioning around medoids

Clustering large application

Performing cluster validation

Performing Advance clustering

Model-based clustering with the EM algorithm

Reducing dimensionality with principal component analysis

Lessons from History - Time Series Analysis

Lessons from History - Time Series Analysis

Exploring finance datasets

Creating and examining date objects

Operating on date objects

Performing preliminary analyses on time series data

Using time series objects

Decomposing time series

Filtering time series data

Smoothing and forecasting using the Holt-Winters method

Building an automated ARIMA model

How does it look? - Advanced data visualization

How does it look? - Advanced data visualization

Creating scatter plots

Creating line graphs

Creating bar graphs

Making distributions plots

Creating mosaic graphs

Making treemaps

Plotting a correlations matrix

Creating heatmaps

Plotting network graphs

Labeling and legends

Coloring and themes

Creating multivariate plots

Creating 3D graphs and animation

Selecting a graphics device

This may also interest you - Building Recommendations

This may also interest you - Building Recommendations

Building collaborative filtering systems

Performing content-based systems

Building hybrid systems

Performing similarity measures

Application of ML algorithms - image recognition system

Evaluating models and optimization

A practical example - fraud detection system

It's All About Your Connections - Social Network Analysis

It's All About Your Connections - Social Network Analysis

Downloading social network data using public APIs

Creating adjacency matrices and edge lists

Plotting social network data

Computing important network metrics

Cluster analysis

YiFan Hu layout

Put Your Best Foot Forward - Document and Present Your Analysis

Put Your Best Foot Forward - Document and Present Your Analysis

Generating reports of your data analysis with R Markdown and knitr

Creating interactive web applications with shiny

Creating PDF presentations of your analysis with R presentation

Generating dynamic reports

Work Smarter, Not Harder - Efficient and Elegant R Code

Work Smarter, Not Harder - Efficient and Elegant R Code

Exploiting vectorized operations

Processing entire rows or columns using the apply function

Applying a function to all elements of a collection with lapply and sapply

Applying functions to subsets of a vector

Using the split-apply-combine strategy with plyr

Slicing, dicing, and combining data with data tables

Where in the World? Geospatial Analysis

Where in the World? Geospatial Analysis

Downloading and plotting a Google map of an area

Overlaying data on the downloaded Google map

Importing ESRI shape files to R

Using the sp package to plot geographic data

Getting maps from the maps package

Creating spatial data frames from regular data frames containing spatial and other data

Creating spatial data frames by combining regular data frames with spatial objects

Adding variables to an existing spatial data frame

Spatial data analysis with R and QGIS

Playing Nice - Connecting to Other Systems

Playing Nice - Connecting to Other Systems

Using Java objects in R

Using JRI to call R functions from Java

Using Rserve to call R functions from Java

Executing R scripts from Java

Using the xlsx package to connect to Excel

Reading data from relational databases - MySQL

Reading data from NoSQL databases - MongoDB

Working with in-memory data processing with Apache Spark

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Labeling and legends

Labeling your graph is an important aspect of visualization, as the default variable names will not add clarity to the graph. ggplot has two ways to add labels and legends:

ggtitle(label): for adding the main title
xlab(label): for adding the x axis label
ylab(label): for adding the y axis label

You can also use the labs(...) method to add all of these--the main title, axis labels, and even legend titles. In this recipe, you will learn about adding labels and legends to your plot by adding extra layers to it.

Getting ready

If you have not done so already, make sure that the ToothGrowth.csv file is in the working directory of R. Then load the dataset and required packages:

> library(ggplot2)
> toothgrowth...