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R Data Mining

This book will empower you to produce and present impressive analyses from data, by selecting and implementing the appropriate data mining techniques in R. Explore a data mining crime case, where you will be requested to help resolving a real fraud case affecting a commercial company, by the mean of both basic and advanced data mining techniques.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

14h44m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

If you are a budding data scientist, or a data analyst with a basic knowledge of R, and want to get into the intricacies of data mining in a practical manner, this is the book for you. No previous experience of data mining is required.

Book content

chapters 14h44m total length

Why to Choose R for Your Data Mining and Where to Start

A First Primer on Data Mining Analysing Your Bank Account Data

The Data Mining Process - CRISP-DM Methodology

Keeping the House Clean – The Data Mining Architecture

How to Address a Data Mining Problem – Data Cleaning and Validation

Looking into Your Data Eyes – Exploratory Data Analysis

Our First Guess – a Linear Regression

A Gentle Introduction to Model Performance Evaluation

Don't Give up – Power up Your Regression Including Multiple Variables

Addressing the Problem from Another Perspective Through Classification Models

The Final Clash – Random Forests and Ensemble Learning

Looking for the Culprit – Text Data Mining with R

Sharing Your Stories with Your Stakeholders through R Markdown

Epilogue

Appendix A: Dealing with Dates, Relative Paths and Functions

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