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Machine Learning with R

With the expert help of Brett Lantz, you’ll learn how to uncover key insights and make new predictions using this hands-on, practical guide to machine learning with R. This 10th Anniversary Edition features an overview of R and plenty of new use cases for advanced users. The book is fully updated to R 4.0.0, with newer and better examples and the most up-to-date R libraries, advice on ethical and bias issues, and new chapters that dive deeper into advanced modeling techniques and methods for using big data in R.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

25h24m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is designed to help data scientists, actuaries, data analysts, financial analysts, social scientists, business and machine learning students, and any other practitioners who want a clear, accessible guide to machine learning with R. No R experience is required, although prior exposure to statistics and programming is helpful.

Book content

chapters 25h24m total length

Introducing Machine Learning

Managing and Understanding Data

Lazy Learning – Classification Using Nearest Neighbors

Probabilistic Learning – Classification Using Naive Bayes

Divide and Conquer – Classification Using Decision Trees and Rules

Forecasting Numeric Data – Regression Methods

Black-Box Methods – Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines

Finding Patterns – Market Basket Analysis Using Association Rules

Finding Groups of Data – Clustering with k-means

Evaluating Model Performance

Being Successful with Machine Learning

Advanced Data Preparation

Challenging Data – Too Much, Too Little, Too Complex

Building Better Learners

Making Use of Big Data

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