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Book Text Mining with R

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julia Silge
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2017-06-12
  • ISBN : 1491981601
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Text Mining with R written by Julia Silge and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the data available today is unstructured and text-heavy, making it challenging for analysts to apply their usual data wrangling and visualization tools. With this practical book, you’ll explore text-mining techniques with tidytext, a package that authors Julia Silge and David Robinson developed using the tidy principles behind R packages like ggraph and dplyr. You’ll learn how tidytext and other tidy tools in R can make text analysis easier and more effective. The authors demonstrate how treating text as data frames enables you to manipulate, summarize, and visualize characteristics of text. You’ll also learn how to integrate natural language processing (NLP) into effective workflows. Practical code examples and data explorations will help you generate real insights from literature, news, and social media. Learn how to apply the tidy text format to NLP Use sentiment analysis to mine the emotional content of text Identify a document’s most important terms with frequency measurements Explore relationships and connections between words with the ggraph and widyr packages Convert back and forth between R’s tidy and non-tidy text formats Use topic modeling to classify document collections into natural groups Examine case studies that compare Twitter archives, dig into NASA metadata, and analyze thousands of Usenet messages

Book Mastering Text Mining with R

Download or read book Mastering Text Mining with R written by Kumar Ashish and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master text-taming techniques and build effective text-processing applications with RAbout This Book* This book will help you develop an in-depth understanding of the text mining process with lucid implementation in the R language* After reading this book, you will be able to enhance your skills on building text-mining apps with R* All the examples in the book use the latest version of R, making this book an update-to-date edition in the marketWho This Book Is ForIf you are an R programmer, analyst, or data scientist who wants to gain experience in performing text data mining and analytics with R, then this book is for you. Exposure to working with statistical methods and language processing would be helpful.What You Will Learn* Get acquainted with some of the highly efficient R packages such as OpenNLP and RWeka to perform various steps in the text mining process* Access and manipulate data from different sources such as JSON and HTTP* Process text using regular expressions* Get to know the different approaches of tagging texts, such as POS tagging, to get started with text analysis* Explore different dimensionality reduction techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and understand its implementation in R* Discover the underlying themes or topics that are present in an unstructured collection of documents, using common topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)* Build a baseline sentence completing application* Perform entity extraction and named entity recognition using R* Get an introduction to various approaches in opinion mining and their implementation in RIn DetailText Mining (or text data mining or text analytics) is a process of extracting useful and high-quality information from text by devising patterns and trends through machine learning, statistical pattern learning, and related algorithms and methods. R provides an extensive ecosystem to mine text through its many frameworks and packages.This book will help you develop a thorough understanding of the steps in the text mining process and gain confidence in applying the concepts to build text-data driven products.Starting with basic information about the statistics concepts used in text mining, the book will teach you how to access, cleanse, and process text using the R language and teach you how to analyze them. It will equip you with the tools and the associated knowledge about different tagging, chunking, and entailment approaches and their usage in natural language processing.Moving on, the book will teach you different dimensionality reduction techniques and their implementation in R, along with topic modeling, text summarization, and extracting hidden themes from documents and collections. Next, we will cover pattern recognition in text data utilizing classification mechanisms, perform entity recognition, and develop an ontology learning framework. You will learn the concept of an opinion in a text document and be able to apply various techniques to extract a sentiment and opinion out of it.By the end of the book, you will develop a practical application from the concepts learned, and will understand how text mining can be leveraged to analyze the massively available data on social media.

Book Mastering Text Mining with R

Download or read book Mastering Text Mining with R written by Ashish Kumar and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master text-taming techniques and build effective text-processing applications with R About This Book Develop all the relevant skills for building text-mining apps with R with this easy-to-follow guide Gain in-depth understanding of the text mining process with lucid implementation in the R language Example-rich guide that lets you gain high-quality information from text data Who This Book Is For If you are an R programmer, analyst, or data scientist who wants to gain experience in performing text data mining and analytics with R, then this book is for you. Exposure to working with statistical methods and language processing would be helpful. What You Will Learn Get acquainted with some of the highly efficient R packages such as OpenNLP and RWeka to perform various steps in the text mining process Access and manipulate data from different sources such as JSON and HTTP Process text using regular expressions Get to know the different approaches of tagging texts, such as POS tagging, to get started with text analysis Explore different dimensionality reduction techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and understand its implementation in R Discover the underlying themes or topics that are present in an unstructured collection of documents, using common topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Build a baseline sentence completing application Perform entity extraction and named entity recognition using R In Detail Text Mining (or text data mining or text analytics) is the process of extracting useful and high-quality information from text by devising patterns and trends. R provides an extensive ecosystem to mine text through its many frameworks and packages. Starting with basic information about the statistics concepts used in text mining, this book will teach you how to access, cleanse, and process text using the R language and will equip you with the tools and the associated knowledge about different tagging, chunking, and entailment approaches and their usage in natural language processing. Moving on, this book will teach you different dimensionality reduction techniques and their implementation in R. Next, we will cover pattern recognition in text data utilizing classification mechanisms, perform entity recognition, and develop an ontology learning framework. By the end of the book, you will develop a practical application from the concepts learned, and will understand how text mining can be leveraged to analyze the massively available data on social media. Style and approach This book takes a hands-on, example-driven approach to the text mining process with lucid implementation in R.

Book Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature

Download or read book Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature written by Matthew L. Jockers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature is written with students and scholars of literature in mind but will be applicable to other humanists and social scientists wishing to extend their methodological tool kit to include quantitative and computational approaches to the study of text. Computation provides access to information in text that we simply cannot gather using traditional qualitative methods of close reading and human synthesis. Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature provides a practical introduction to computational text analysis using the open source programming language R. R is extremely popular throughout the sciences and because of its accessibility, R is now used increasingly in other research areas. Readers begin working with text right away and each chapter works through a new technique or process such that readers gain a broad exposure to core R procedures and a basic understanding of the possibilities of computational text analysis at both the micro and macro scale. Each chapter builds on the previous as readers move from small scale “microanalysis” of single texts to large scale “macroanalysis” of text corpora, and each chapter concludes with a set of practice exercises that reinforce and expand upon the chapter lessons. The book’s focus is on making the technical palatable and making the technical useful and immediately gratifying.

Book Mastering Machine Learning with R

Download or read book Mastering Machine Learning with R written by Cory Lesmeister and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master machine learning techniques with R to deliver insights for complex projects About This Book Get to grips with the application of Machine Learning methods using an extensive set of R packages Understand the benefits and potential pitfalls of using machine learning methods Implement the numerous powerful features offered by R with this comprehensive guide to building an independent R-based ML system Who This Book Is For If you want to learn how to use R's machine learning capabilities to solve complex business problems, then this book is for you. Some experience with R and a working knowledge of basic statistical or machine learning will prove helpful. What You Will Learn Gain deep insights to learn the applications of machine learning tools to the industry Manipulate data in R efficiently to prepare it for analysis Master the skill of recognizing techniques for effective visualization of data Understand why and how to create test and training data sets for analysis Familiarize yourself with fundamental learning methods such as linear and logistic regression Comprehend advanced learning methods such as support vector machines Realize why and how to apply unsupervised learning methods In Detail Machine learning is a field of Artificial Intelligence to build systems that learn from data. Given the growing prominence of R—a cross-platform, zero-cost statistical programming environment—there has never been a better time to start applying machine learning to your data. The book starts with introduction to Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining. It takes you through Multivariate Regression in detail. Moving on, you will also address Classification and Regression trees. You will learn a couple of “Unsupervised techniques”. Finally, the book will walk you through text analysis and time series. The book will deliver practical and real-world solutions to problems and variety of tasks such as complex recommendation systems. By the end of this book, you will gain expertise in performing R machine learning and will be able to build complex ML projects using R and its packages. Style and approach This is a book explains complicated concepts with easy to follow theory and real-world, practical applications. It demonstrates the power of R and machine learning extensively while highlighting the constraints.

Book Text Mining in Practice with R

Download or read book Text Mining in Practice with R written by Ted Kwartler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reliable, cost-effective approach to extracting priceless business information from all sources of text Excavating actionable business insights from data is a complex undertaking, and that complexity is magnified by an order of magnitude when the focus is on documents and other text information. This book takes a practical, hands-on approach to teaching you a reliable, cost-effective approach to mining the vast, untold riches buried within all forms of text using R. Author Ted Kwartler clearly describes all of the tools needed to perform text mining and shows you how to use them to identify practical business applications to get your creative text mining efforts started right away. With the help of numerous real-world examples and case studies from industries ranging from healthcare to entertainment to telecommunications, he demonstrates how to execute an array of text mining processes and functions, including sentiment scoring, topic modelling, predictive modelling, extracting clickbait from headlines, and more. You’ll learn how to: Identify actionable social media posts to improve customer service Use text mining in HR to identify candidate perceptions of an organisation, match job descriptions with resumes, and more Extract priceless information from virtually all digital and print sources, including the news media, social media sites, PDFs, and even JPEG and GIF image files Make text mining an integral component of marketing in order to identify brand evangelists, impact customer propensity modelling, and much more Most companies’ data mining efforts focus almost exclusively on numerical and categorical data, while text remains a largely untapped resource. Especially in a global marketplace where being first to identify and respond to customer needs and expectations imparts an unbeatable competitive advantage, text represents a source of immense potential value. Unfortunately, there is no reliable, cost-effective technology for extracting analytical insights from the huge and ever-growing volume of text available online and other digital sources, as well as from paper documents—until now.

Book Data Mining with R

Download or read book Data Mining with R written by Luis Torgo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Mining with R: Learning with Case Studies, Second Edition uses practical examples to illustrate the power of R and data mining. Providing an extensive update to the best-selling first edition, this new edition is divided into two parts. The first part will feature introductory material, including a new chapter that provides an introduction to data mining, to complement the already existing introduction to R. The second part includes case studies, and the new edition strongly revises the R code of the case studies making it more up-to-date with recent packages that have emerged in R. The book does not assume any prior knowledge about R. Readers who are new to R and data mining should be able to follow the case studies, and they are designed to be self-contained so the reader can start anywhere in the document. The book is accompanied by a set of freely available R source files that can be obtained at the book’s web site. These files include all the code used in the case studies, and they facilitate the "do-it-yourself" approach followed in the book. Designed for users of data analysis tools, as well as researchers and developers, the book should be useful for anyone interested in entering the "world" of R and data mining. About the Author Luís Torgo is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Porto in Portugal. He teaches Data Mining in R in the NYU Stern School of Business’ MS in Business Analytics program. An active researcher in machine learning and data mining for more than 20 years, Dr. Torgo is also a researcher in the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis (LIAAD) of INESC Porto LA.

Book Mastering Data Analysis with R

Download or read book Mastering Data Analysis with R written by Gergely Daroczi and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain sharp insights into your data and solve real-world data science problems with R—from data munging to modeling and visualization About This Book Handle your data with precision and care for optimal business intelligence Restructure and transform your data to inform decision-making Packed with practical advice and tips to help you get to grips with data mining Who This Book Is For If you are a data scientist or R developer who wants to explore and optimize your use of R's advanced features and tools, this is the book for you. A basic knowledge of R is required, along with an understanding of database logic. What You Will Learn Connect to and load data from R's range of powerful databases Successfully fetch and parse structured and unstructured data Transform and restructure your data with efficient R packages Define and build complex statistical models with glm Develop and train machine learning algorithms Visualize social networks and graph data Deploy supervised and unsupervised classification algorithms Discover how to visualize spatial data with R In Detail R is an essential language for sharp and successful data analysis. Its numerous features and ease of use make it a powerful way of mining, managing, and interpreting large sets of data. In a world where understanding big data has become key, by mastering R you will be able to deal with your data effectively and efficiently. This book will give you the guidance you need to build and develop your knowledge and expertise. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book will help you to understand and use data for a competitive advantage. Beginning with taking you through essential data mining and management tasks such as munging, fetching, cleaning, and restructuring, the book then explores different model designs and the core components of effective analysis. You will then discover how to optimize your use of machine learning algorithms for classification and recommendation systems beside the traditional and more recent statistical methods. Style and approach Covering the essential tasks and skills within data science, Mastering Data Analysis provides you with solutions to the challenges of data science. Each section gives you a theoretical overview before demonstrating how to put the theory to work with real-world use cases and hands-on examples.

Book Text Mining with R

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julia Silge. David Robinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781491981641
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Text Mining with R written by Julia Silge. David Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mastering RStudio     Develop  Communicate  and Collaborate with R

Download or read book Mastering RStudio Develop Communicate and Collaborate with R written by Julian Hillebrand and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harness the power of RStudio to create web applications, R packages, markdown reports and pretty data visualizations About This Book Discover the multi-functional use of RStudio to support your daily work with R code Learn to create stunning, meaningful, and interactive graphs and learn to embed them into easy communicable reports using multiple R packages Develop your own R packages and Shiny web apps to share your knowledge and collaborate with others. Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at R developers and analysts who wish to do R statistical development while taking advantage of RStudio's functionality to ease their development efforts. R programming experience is assumed as well as being comfortable with R's basic structures and a number of functions. What You Will Learn Discover the RStudio IDE and details about the user interface Communicate your insights with R Markdown in static and interactive ways Learn how to use different graphic systems to visualize your data Build interactive web applications with the Shiny framework to present and share your results Understand the process of package development and assemble your own R packages Easily collaborate with other people on your projects by using Git and GitHub Manage the R environment for your organization with RStudio and Shiny server Apply your obtained knowledge about RStudio and R development to create a real-world dashboard solution In Detail RStudio helps you to manage small to large projects by giving you a multi-functional integrated development environment, combined with the power and flexibility of the R programming language, which is becoming the bridge language of data science for developers and analyst worldwide. Mastering the use of RStudio will help you to solve real-world data problems. This book begins by guiding you through the installation of RStudio and explaining the user interface step by step. From there, the next logical step is to use this knowledge to improve your data analysis workflow. We will do this by building up our toolbox to create interactive reports and graphs or even web applications with Shiny. To collaborate with others, we will explore how to use Git and GitHub with RStudio and how to build your own packages to ensure top quality results. Finally, we put it all together in an interactive dashboard written with R. Style and approach An easy-to-follow guide full of hands-on examples to master RStudio. Beginning from explaining the basics, each topic is explained with a lot of details for every feature.

Book Mining Text Data

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charu C. Aggarwal
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-02-03
  • ISBN : 1461432235
  • Pages : 527 pages

Download or read book Mining Text Data written by Charu C. Aggarwal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text mining applications have experienced tremendous advances because of web 2.0 and social networking applications. Recent advances in hardware and software technology have lead to a number of unique scenarios where text mining algorithms are learned. Mining Text Data introduces an important niche in the text analytics field, and is an edited volume contributed by leading international researchers and practitioners focused on social networks & data mining. This book contains a wide swath in topics across social networks & data mining. Each chapter contains a comprehensive survey including the key research content on the topic, and the future directions of research in the field. There is a special focus on Text Embedded with Heterogeneous and Multimedia Data which makes the mining process much more challenging. A number of methods have been designed such as transfer learning and cross-lingual mining for such cases. Mining Text Data simplifies the content, so that advanced-level students, practitioners and researchers in computer science can benefit from this book. Academic and corporate libraries, as well as ACM, IEEE, and Management Science focused on information security, electronic commerce, databases, data mining, machine learning, and statistics are the primary buyers for this reference book.

Book Automated Data Collection with R

Download or read book Automated Data Collection with R written by Simon Munzert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hands on guide to web scraping and text mining for both beginners and experienced users of R Introduces fundamental concepts of the main architecture of the web and databases and covers HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, SQL. Provides basic techniques to query web documents and data sets (XPath and regular expressions). An extensive set of exercises are presented to guide the reader through each technique. Explores both supervised and unsupervised techniques as well as advanced techniques such as data scraping and text management. Case studies are featured throughout along with examples for each technique presented. R code and solutions to exercises featured in the book are provided on a supporting website.

Book Text Mining with Machine Learning

Download or read book Text Mining with Machine Learning written by Jan Žižka and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a perspective on the application of machine learning-based methods in knowledge discovery from natural languages texts. By analysing various data sets, conclusions which are not normally evident, emerge and can be used for various purposes and applications. The book provides explanations of principles of time-proven machine learning algorithms applied in text mining together with step-by-step demonstrations of how to reveal the semantic contents in real-world datasets using the popular R-language with its implemented machine learning algorithms. The book is not only aimed at IT specialists, but is meant for a wider audience that needs to process big sets of text documents and has basic knowledge of the subject, e.g. e-mail service providers, online shoppers, librarians, etc. The book starts with an introduction to text-based natural language data processing and its goals and problems. It focuses on machine learning, presenting various algorithms with their use and possibilities, and reviews the positives and negatives. Beginning with the initial data pre-processing, a reader can follow the steps provided in the R-language including the subsuming of various available plug-ins into the resulting software tool. A big advantage is that R also contains many libraries implementing machine learning algorithms, so a reader can concentrate on the principal target without the need to implement the details of the algorithms her- or himself. To make sense of the results, the book also provides explanations of the algorithms, which supports the final evaluation and interpretation of the results. The examples are demonstrated using realworld data from commonly accessible Internet sources.

Book Mastering Social Media Mining with R

Download or read book Mastering Social Media Mining with R written by Sharan Kumar Ravindran and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract valuable data from your social media sites and make better business decisions using R About This Book Explore the social media APIs in R to capture data and tame it Employ the machine learning capabilities of R to gain optimal business value A hands-on guide with real-world examples to help you take advantage of the vast opportunities that come with social media data Who This Book Is For If you have basic knowledge of R in terms of its libraries and are aware of different machine learning techniques, this book is for you. Those with experience in data analysis who are interested in mining social media data will find this book useful. What You Will Learn Access APIs of popular social media sites and extract data Perform sentiment analysis and identify trending topics Measure CTR performance for social media campaigns Implement exploratory data analysis and correlation analysis Build a logistic regression model to detect spam messages Construct clusters of pictures using the K-means algorithm and identify popular personalities and destinations Develop recommendation systems using Collaborative Filtering and the Apriori algorithm In Detail With an increase in the number of users on the web, the content generated has increased substantially, bringing in the need to gain insights into the untapped gold mine that is social media data. For computational statistics, R has an advantage over other languages in providing readily-available data extraction and transformation packages, making it easier to carry out your ETL tasks. Along with this, its data visualization packages help users get a better understanding of the underlying data distributions while its range of "standard" statistical packages simplify analysis of the data. This book will teach you how powerful business cases are solved by applying machine learning techniques on social media data. You will learn about important and recent developments in the field of social media, along with a few advanced topics such as Open Authorization (OAuth). Through practical examples, you will access data from R using APIs of various social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Blogger, and other networks. We will provide you with detailed explanations on the implementation of various use cases using R programming. With this handy guide, you will be ready to embark on your journey as an independent social media analyst. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide is packed with hands-on, step-by-step examples that will enable you to convert your real-world social media data into useful, practical information.

Book People Analytics   Text Mining with R

Download or read book People Analytics Text Mining with R written by Mong Shen Ng and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't need to buy expensive statistical software like SPSS. This book teaches you R (R can be downloaded for free), People Analytics, Social Media Analytics, Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis. It is written for people with absolutely NO knowledge of R programming, with step-by-step print-screen instructions. The sample R codes are kept simple & short so that you are not overwhelmed with too much unnecessary information, and focuses on teaching you the R codes relevant to people analytics, so that you'll be up-and-running in no time. If you are new to R programming, this is the book for you. As R is developed specially for statistical analysis, you can run complicated statistical number crunching (Correlation, Multiple & Logistic Regression, etc.) by simply entering a few commands. This book covers the full People Analytics scope (Benefits, Compensation, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Engagement, Leadership, Learning & Development, Personality Traits, Performance Management, Recruitment, Sales Incentives) with numerous real-world examples, and shows how R programming can help you: 1) Run Social Media Analytics, Text mining & Sentiment Analysis with R. 2) Predict employees' flight-risk using R's Correlation & Logistic Regression function. 3) Identify the personality traits of top performing Customer Service staff and Sales staff using R's correlation function. 4) Predict impact of Employee Engagement on Customer Satisfaction, Revenue and Shareholder Returns, etc. using R's Correlation & Multiple Regression function. 5) Predict impact of Learning & Development on Sales, using R's Multiple Regression function. 6) Predict Diversity & Inclusion's impact on Revenue and EBIT using R's Multiple Regression function.

Book Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R

Download or read book Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R written by Emil Hvitfeldt and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text data is important for many domains, from healthcare to marketing to the digital humanities, but specialized approaches are necessary to create features for machine learning from language. Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R explains how to preprocess text data for modeling, train models, and evaluate model performance using tools from the tidyverse and tidymodels ecosystem. Models like these can be used to make predictions for new observations, to understand what natural language features or characteristics contribute to differences in the output, and more. If you are already familiar with the basics of predictive modeling, use the comprehensive, detailed examples in this book to extend your skills to the domain of natural language processing. This book provides practical guidance and directly applicable knowledge for data scientists and analysts who want to integrate unstructured text data into their modeling pipelines. Learn how to use text data for both regression and classification tasks, and how to apply more straightforward algorithms like regularized regression or support vector machines as well as deep learning approaches. Natural language must be dramatically transformed to be ready for computation, so we explore typical text preprocessing and feature engineering steps like tokenization and word embeddings from the ground up. These steps influence model results in ways we can measure, both in terms of model metrics and other tangible consequences such as how fair or appropriate model results are.

Book R and Data Mining

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yanchang Zhao
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Release : 2012-12-31
  • ISBN : 012397271X
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book R and Data Mining written by Yanchang Zhao and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R and Data Mining introduces researchers, post-graduate students, and analysts to data mining using R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The book provides practical methods for using R in applications from academia to industry to extract knowledge from vast amounts of data. Readers will find this book a valuable guide to the use of R in tasks such as classification and prediction, clustering, outlier detection, association rules, sequence analysis, text mining, social network analysis, sentiment analysis, and more.Data mining techniques are growing in popularity in a broad range of areas, from banking to insurance, retail, telecom, medicine, research, and government. This book focuses on the modeling phase of the data mining process, also addressing data exploration and model evaluation.With three in-depth case studies, a quick reference guide, bibliography, and links to a wealth of online resources, R and Data Mining is a valuable, practical guide to a powerful method of analysis. Presents an introduction into using R for data mining applications, covering most popular data mining techniques Provides code examples and data so that readers can easily learn the techniques Features case studies in real-world applications to help readers apply the techniques in their work