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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

Exploring the Machine Learning Landscape

Machine learning (ML) is an amazing subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that tries to mimic the learning behavior of humans. Similar to the way a baby learns by observing the examples it encounters, an ML algorithm learns the outcome or response to a future incident by observing the data points that are provided as input to it.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • ML versus software engineering
  • Types of ML methods
  • ML terminology—a quick review
  • ML project pipeline
  • Learning paradigm
  • Datasets