Data Mining Applications with R

Yanchang Zhao author Yonghua Cen author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Published:30th Dec '13

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This book helps researchers and professionals bridge the gap between data mining techniques and real-world business problems using various R techniques and methodologies.

Suitable for researchers and professionals to understand the use of R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, in solving different problems in industry, this book presents 15 different real-world case studies illustrating various techniques in rapidly growing areas.Data Mining Applications with R is a great resource for researchers and professionals to understand the wide use of R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, in solving different problems in industry. R is widely used in leveraging data mining techniques across many different industries, including government, finance, insurance, medicine, scientific research and more. This book presents 15 different real-world case studies illustrating various techniques in rapidly growing areas. It is an ideal companion for data mining researchers in academia and industry looking for ways to turn this versatile software into a powerful analytic tool. R code, Data and color figures for the book are provided at the RDataMining.com website.

"The book contains a wealth of modern material that should be covered in more depth in statistics courses: for example, missing data, outlier detection, missing imputation, correlation coefficient matrices, principles of model selection, text mining, and decision trees…The book has many hot and recent packages; many are written or have theory based on results developed since 2010." --MAA.org, April 23, 2014 "Zhao and Cen present 15 real-world applications of data mining with the open-source statistics software R. Each application covers the business background, and problems, data extraction and exploitation, data preprocessing, modeling, model evaluation, findings, and model deployment. They involve a diverse set of challenging problems in terms of data size, data type, data mining goals, and the methodologies and tools to carry out the analysis." --ProtoView.com, February 2014

ISBN: 9780124115118

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1110g

514 pages