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Applied Supervised Learning with R

By : Karthik Ramasubramanian, Jojo Moolayil
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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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Applied Supervised Learning with R
Preface

Amazon Web Services


Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading provider of cloud services. With the advent of the cloud, the tech industry has seen a dramatic shift in the process of building large-scale enterprise applications leveraging cloud services rather than self-hosted services. Other prominent players in the cloud services market are Microsoft, Google, and IBM. While all leading cloud providers have an exhaustive suite of services to build all kinds of software applications, we will focus only on AWS for the scope of this chapter. You are highly encouraged to explore alternative services for similar use cases from other cloud providers (not restricted to Google or Microsoft).

AWS has a ton of services readily available that can be used to make large, complex enterprise applications of any scale with no upfront commitments. You pay as you go, and there are also a large number of services that you can explore and test for free for one year (with certain limits). For the scope of the...