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Advanced Machine Learning with R

By : Cory Lesmeister, Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari
Book Image

Advanced Machine Learning with R

By: Cory Lesmeister, Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari

Overview of this book

R is one of the most popular languages when it comes to exploring the mathematical side of machine learning and easily performing computational statistics. This Learning Path shows you how to leverage the R ecosystem to build efficient machine learning applications that carry out intelligent tasks within your organization. You’ll work through realistic projects such as building powerful machine learning models with ensembles to predict employee attrition. Next, you’ll explore different clustering techniques to segment customers using wholesale data and even apply TensorFlow and Keras-R for performing advanced computations. Each chapter will help you implement advanced machine learning algorithms using real-world examples. You’ll also be introduced to reinforcement learning along with its use cases and models. Finally, this Learning Path will provide you with a glimpse into how some of these black box models can be diagnosed and understood. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to deploy machine learning techniques in your own projects.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Learning paradigm


Most learning paradigms that are followed in other books or content about ML follow a bottom-up approach. This approach starts from the bottom and works its way up. The approach first covers the theoretical elements, such as mathematical introductions to the algorithm, the evolution of the algorithm, variations, and parameters that the algorithm takes, and then delves into the application of the ML algorithm specific to a dataset. This may be a good approach; however, it takes longer really to see the results produced by the algorithm. It needs a lot of perseverance on the part of the learner to be patient and wait until the practical application of the algorithm is covered. In most cases, practitioners and certain classes of industry professionals working on ML are really interested in the practical aspects and they want to experience the power of the algorithm. For these people, the focus is not the theoretical foundations of the algorithm, but it is the practical application...