Performing Population Data Analytics using R
So far, we talked about how to use Mahout to solve various machine learning problems. Now, we are going to explain another tool/language called R, which has built-in support for various mathematical and statistical operations.
Getting ready
To perform this recipe, you should have R installed on your machine. You can download the installer from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/.
How to do it...
In this recipe, we are going to learn some basic operations that one can perform using R. To start with, we will have one dataset that has information about Australia's population in various states. This is what the dataset looks like:
Year NSW Vic. Qld SA WA Tas. NT ACT Aust. 1917 1904 1409 683 440 306 ...
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