April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
15h 49m
English
Overview
In Video Editions the narrator reads the book while the content, figures, code listings, diagrams, and text appear on the screen. Like an audiobook that you can also watch as a video.
Machine learning (ML) is a collection of programming techniques for discovering relationships in data. With ML algorithms, you can cluster and classify data for tasks like making recommendations or fraud detection and make predictions for sales trends, risk analysis, and other forecasts. Once the domain of academic data scientists, machine learning has become a mainstream business process, and tools like the easy-to-learn R programming language put high-quality data analysis in the hands of any programmer. Machine Learning with R, the tidyverse, and mlr teaches you widely used ML techniques and how to apply them to your own datasets using the R programming language and its powerful ecosystem of tools. This book will get you started!
About the Technology
About the Book
Machine Learning with R, the tidyverse, and mlr gets you started in machine learning using R Studio and the awesome mlr machine learning package. This practical guide simplifies theory and avoids needlessly complicated statistics or math. All core ML techniques are clearly explained through graphics and easy-to-grasp examples. In each engaging chapter, you’ll put a new algorithm into action to solve a quirky predictive analysis problem, including Titanic survival odds, spam email filtering, and poisoned wine investigation.
What's Inside
- Using the tidyverse packages to process and plot your data
- Techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning
- Classification, regression, dimension reduction, and clustering algorithms
- Statistics primer to fill gaps in your knowledge
About the Reader
For newcomers to machine learning with basic skills in R.
About the Author
Hefin I. Rhys is a senior laboratory research scientist at the Francis Crick Institute. He runs his own YouTube channel of screencast tutorials for R and RStudio.
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Easy language, clear explanations, good examples...I love this book!
- Mario Giesel, Mediaplus
This book is not only very useful, it is also fun to read!
- Fernando García Sedano, Dinacell Electrónica
Fantastic introduction to the subject of machine learning.
- Luis Moux, EMO
Lucid language, real-life examples, in-depth coverage of a variety of algorithms, and exercises along with answers to hone your skills.
- Prabhuti Prakash, Atos
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