R: Unleash Machine Learning Techniques

Preface

	"He who defends everything, defends nothing."
	-- Frederick the Great

Machine learning is a very broad topic. The following quote sums it up nicely: The first problem facing you is the bewildering variety of learning algorithms available. Which one to use? There are literally thousands available, and hundreds more are published each year. (Domingo, P., 2012.) It would therefore be irresponsible to try and cover everything in the chapters that follow because, to paraphrase Frederick the Great, we would achieve nothing. With this constraint in mind, we hope to provide a solid foundation of algorithms and business considerations that will allow the reader to walk away and, first of all, take on any machine learning tasks with complete ...