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Applied Supervised Learning with R

Applied Supervised Learning with R

By : Karthik Ramasubramanian, Jojo Moolayil
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Applied Supervised Learning with R

Applied Supervised Learning with R

By: Karthik Ramasubramanian, Jojo Moolayil

Overview of this book

R provides excellent visualization features that are essential for exploring data before using it in automated learning. Applied Supervised Learning with R helps you cover the complete process of employing R to develop applications using supervised machine learning algorithms for your business needs. The book starts by helping you develop your analytical thinking to create a problem statement using business inputs and domain research. You will then learn different evaluation metrics that compare various algorithms, and later progress to using these metrics to select the best algorithm for your problem. After finalizing the algorithm you want to use, you will study the hyperparameter optimization technique to fine-tune your set of optimal parameters. The book demonstrates how you can add different regularization terms to avoid overfitting your model. By the end of this book, you will have gained the advanced skills you need for modeling a supervised machine learning algorithm that precisely fulfills your business needs.
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Preface

One-Hot Encoding


One-hot encoding is a process of binarizing the categorical variable. This is done by transforming a categorical variable with n unique values into n unique columns in the datasets while keeping the number of rows the same. The following table shows how the wind direction column is transformed into five binary columns. For example, the row number 1 has the value North, so we get a 1 in the corresponding column named Direction_N and 0 in the remaining columns. So on for the other rows. Note that out of these sample five rows of data, the direction West is not present. However, the larger dataset would have got the value for us to have the column Direction_W.

Figure 6.4 Transforming a categorical variable into Binary 1s and 0s using one-hot encoding

One primary reason for converting categorical variables (such as the one shown in the previous table) to binary columns is related to the limitation of many machine learning algorithms, which can only deal with numerical values....

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