Chapter 7. Advanced Analytics with Unsupervised Learning

Would you like to know how to make predictions from a dataset? Alternatively, would you like to find exceptions, or outliers that you need to watch out for?

Neural networks are used in business to answer these business questions. They are used to make predictions from a dataset, or to find unusual patterns. They are best used for regression or classification business problems.

In this chapter, we will look at neural networks as a specific example of advanced analytics, and how they can be used to answer real-life business questions.

What are neural networks?

Neural networks are one of the most interesting machine learning models. Neural networks are inspired by the structures of the brain. Neural ...

Get Advanced Analytics with R and Tableau now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.