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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

Understanding computer vision

In today's world, we have advanced cameras that are very successful at mimicking how a human eye captures light and color; but image-capturing in the right way is just stage one in the whole image-comprehension aspect. Post image-capturing, we will need to enable technology that interprets what has been captured and build context around it. This is what the human brain does when the eyes see something. Here comes the huge challenge: we all know that computers see images as huge piles of integer values that represent intensities across a spectrum of colors, and of course, computer have no context associated with the image itself. This is where ML comes into play. ML allows us to train a context for a dataset such that it enables computers to understand what objects certain sequences of numbers actually represent.

Computer vision is one of the...