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R Machine Learning Projects

By : Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari
Book Image

R Machine Learning Projects

By: Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari

Overview of this book

R is one of the most popular languages when it comes to performing computational statistics (statistical computing) easily and exploring the mathematical side of machine learning. With this book, you will leverage the R ecosystem to build efficient machine learning applications that carry out intelligent tasks within your organization. This book will help you test your knowledge and skills, guiding you on how to build easily through to complex machine learning projects. You will first learn how to build powerful machine learning models with ensembles to predict employee attrition. Next, you’ll implement a joke recommendation engine and learn how to perform sentiment analysis on Amazon reviews. You’ll also explore different clustering techniques to segment customers using wholesale data. In addition to this, the book will get you acquainted with credit card fraud detection using autoencoders, and reinforcement learning to make predictions and win on a casino slot machine. By the end of the book, you will be equipped to confidently perform complex tasks to build research and commercial projects for automated operations.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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The Road Ahead

Philosophy behind ensembling

Ensembling, which is super-famous among ML practitioners, can be well-understood through a simple real-world, non-ML example.

Assume that you have applied for a job in a very reputable corporate organization and you have been called for an interview. It is unlikely you will be selected for a job just based on one interview with an interviewer. In most cases, you will go through multiple rounds of interviews with several interviewers or with a panel of interviewers. The expectation from the organization is that each of the interviewers is an expert on a particular area and that the interviewer has evaluated your fitness for the job based on your experience in the interviewers' area of expertise. Your selection for the job, of course, depends on consolidated feedback from all of the interviewers that talked to you. The organization deems that you...