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Mastering Machine Learning with R - Third Edition

By : Cory Lesmeister
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Mastering Machine Learning with R - Third Edition

By: Cory Lesmeister

Overview of this book

Given the growing popularity of the R-zerocost statistical programming environment, there has never been a better time to start applying ML to your data. This book will teach you advanced techniques in ML ,using? the latest code in R 3.5. You will delve into various complex features of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning algorithms to design efficient and powerful ML models. This newly updated edition is packed with fresh examples covering a range of tasks from different domains. Mastering Machine Learning with R starts by showing you how to quickly manipulate data and prepare it for analysis. You will explore simple and complex models and understand how to compare them. You’ll also learn to use the latest library support, such as TensorFlow and Keras-R, for performing advanced computations. Additionally, you’ll explore complex topics, such as natural language processing (NLP), time series analysis, and clustering, which will further refine your skills in developing applications. Each chapter will help you implement advanced ML algorithms using real-world examples. You’ll even be introduced to reinforcement learning, along with its various use cases and models. In the concluding chapters, you’ll get a glimpse into how some of these blackbox models can be diagnosed and understood. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills to deploy ML techniques in your own projects or at work.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Text mining framework and methods

There are many different methods to use in text mining. The goal here is to provide a basic framework to apply to such an endeavor. This framework is not inclusive of all the possible methods, but will cover those that are probably the most important for the vast majority of projects that you will work on. Additionally, I will discuss the modeling methods in as succinct and clear a manner as possible, because they can get quite complicated. Gathering and compiling text data is a topic that could take up several chapters. One of the things I prefer and will put forward here is the use of the tidy framework. It will allow us to use tibbles and data frames for most of the steps, and the tidytext functions allow an easy transition to other types of text mining structures, such as a corpus.

The first task is to put the text files into a data frame...