R Data Analysis Cookbook – More Than 80 Recipes to Help You Deliver Sharp Data Analysis (PDf)

Description

This book empowers you by showing you ways to use R to generate professional analysis reports. It provides examples for various important analysis and machine-learning tasks that you can try out with associated and readily available data. The book also teaches you to quickly adapt the example code for your own needs and save yourself the time needed to construct code from scratch.
What you will learnGet data into your R environment and prepare it for analysisPerform exploratory data analyses and generate meaningful visualizations of the dataApply several machine-learning techniques for classification and regressionGet your hands around large data sets with the help of reduction techniquesExtract patterns from time-series data and produce forecasts based on themLearn how to extract actionable information from social network dataImplement geospatial analysisPresent your analysis convincingly through reports and build an infrastructure to enable others to play with your dataAbout the Author
Viswa Viswanathan is an associate professor of Computing and Decision Sciences at the Stillman School of Business in Seton Hall University. After completing his PhD in artificial intelligence, Viswa spent a decade in academia and then switched to a leadership position in the software industry for a decade.