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    R Data Science Essentials
    R Data Science Essentials
    R Data Science Essentials
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    R Data Science Essentials

    By Koushik Raja B. and Ravindran Sharan Kumar

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    Learn the essence of data science and visualization using R in no time at all

    About This Book

    - Become a pro at making stunning visualizations and dashboards quickly and without hassle
    - For better decision making in business, apply the R programming language with the help of useful statistical techniques.
    - From seasoned authors comes a book that offers you a plethora of fast-paced techniques to detect and analyze data patterns

    Who This Book Is For

    If you are an aspiring data scientist or analyst who has a basic understanding of data science and has basic hands-on experience in R or any other analytics tool, then R Data Science Essentials is the book for you.

    What You Will Learn

    - Perform data preprocessing and basic operations on data
    - Implement visual and non-visual implementation data exploration techniques
    - Mine patterns from data using affinity and sequential analysis
    - Use different clustering algorithms and visualize them
    - Implement logistic and linear regression and find out how to evaluate and improve the performance of an algorithm
    - Extract patterns through visualization and build a forecasting algorithm
    - Build a recommendation engine using different collaborative filtering algorithms
    - Make a stunning visualization and dashboard using ggplot and R shiny

    In Detail

    With organizations increasingly embedding data science across their enterprise and with management becoming more data-driven it is an urgent requirement for analysts and managers to understand the key concept of data science. The data science concepts discussed in this book will help you make key decisions and solve the complex problems you will inevitably face in this new world.
    R Data Science Essentials will introduce you to various important concepts in the field of data science using R. We start by reading data from multiple sources, then move on to processing the data, extracting hidden patterns, building predictive and forecasting models, building a recommendation engine, and communicating to the user through stunning visualizations and dashboards.
    By the end of this book, you will have an understanding of some very important techniques in data science, be able to implement them using R, understand and interpret the outcomes, and know how they helps businesses make a decision.

    Style and approach

    This easy-to-follow guide contains hands-on examples of the concepts of data science using R.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateJan 13, 2016
    ISBN9781785286360
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    R Data Science Essentials - Koushik Raja B.

    Table of Contents

    R Data Science Essentials

    Credits

    About the Authors

    About the Reviewers

    www.PacktPub.com

    Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

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    Preface

    What this book covers

    What you need for this book

    Who this book is for

    Conventions

    Reader feedback

    Customer support

    Downloading the example code

    Errata

    Piracy

    Questions

    1. Getting Started with R

    Reading data from different sources

    Reading data from a database

    Data types in R

    Variable data types

    Data preprocessing techniques

    Performing data operations

    Arithmetic operations on the data

    String operations on the data

    Aggregation operations on the data

    Mean

    Median

    Sum

    Maximum and minimum

    Standard deviation

    Control structures in R

    Control structures – if and else

    Control structures – for

    Control structures – while

    Control structures – repeat and break

    Control structures – next and return

    Bringing data to a usable format

    Summary

    2. Exploratory Data Analysis

    The Titanic dataset

    Descriptive statistics

    Box plot

    Exercise

    Inferential statistics

    Univariate analysis

    Bivariate analysis

    Multivariate analysis

    Cross-tabulation analysis

    Graphical analysis

    Summary

    3. Pattern Discovery

    Transactional datasets

    Using the built-in dataset

    Building the dataset

    Apriori analysis

    Support, confidence, and lift

    Support

    Confidence

    Lift

    Generating filtering rules

    Plotting

    Dataset

    Rules

    Sequential dataset

    Apriori sequence analysis

    Understanding the results

    Reference

    Business cases

    Summary

    4. Segmentation Using Clustering

    Datasets

    Reading and formatting the dataset in R

    Centroid-based clustering and an ideal number of clusters

    Implementation using K-means

    Visualizing the clusters

    Connectivity-based clustering

    Visualizing the connectivity

    Business use cases

    Summary

    5. Developing Regression Models

    Datasets

    Sampling the dataset

    Logistic regression

    Evaluating logistic regression

    Linear regression

    Evaluating linear regression

    Methods to improve the accuracy

    Ensemble models

    Replacing NA with mean or median

    Removing the highly correlated values

    Removing outliers

    Summary

    6. Time Series Forecasting

    Datasets

    Extracting patterns

    Forecasting using ARIMA

    Forecasting using Holt-Winters

    Methods to improve accuracy

    Summary

    7. Recommendation Engine

    Dataset and transformation

    Recommendations using user-based CF

    Recommendations using item-based CF

    Challenges and enhancements

    Summary

    8. Communicating Data Analysis

    Dataset

    Plotting using the googleVis package

    Creating an interactive dashboard using Shiny

    Summary

    Index

    R Data Science Essentials

    R Data Science Essentials

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    Credits

    Authors

    Raja B. Koushik

    Sharan Kumar Ravindran

    Reviewers

    Jeremy Gray

    Navin K Manaswi

    Commissioning Editor

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    About the Authors

    Raja B. Koushik is a business intelligence professional with over 7 years of experience and is currently working in one of the leading international IT services companies. His primary interest lies for business intelligence technologies, such as ETL, reporting, and dashboarding, along with analytics based on statistics. He has worked with one of the world's largest companies for both their U.S. as well as UK business in the healthcare and leasing domains. He holds an engineering degree with specialization in information technology from Anna University.

    I would like to thank my friends, for I don't know how far I would have come without you guys. I would like to thank Sharan, for giving me this opportunity and also to the Packt team for their constant support. I would like to dedicate this book to Saranya, my wife, for always believing in me and for being so encouraging and supportive of my endeavours; to Shravani, my little bundle of joy, for all the joy and happiness that she has given me; last but not the least, to my parents, Mr Boopalan and Mrs Geetha, without you both I am nothing.

    Sharan Kumar Ravindran is a data scientist with over 5 years of experience and is currently working with a leading e-commerce company in India. His primary interest lies in statistics and machine learning, and he has worked with multiple customers across Europe and the U.S. in the e-commerce and IoT domains. He holds an MBA degree with specialization in marketing and business analysis. He conducts workshops, partnering with Anna University, to train their staff, research scholars, and volunteers in analytics. In addition to co-authoring Data Science Essentials with R by Packt Publishing, Sharan has also co-authored Mastering Social Media Mining with R by Packt Publishing. He maintains www.rsharankumar.com, a website with links to his social profiles and data blog.

    I would like to thank all my friends, colleagues, and family members, without whom I wouldn't have learned as much as I did. I would also like to thank the readers of my first book, Mastering Social Media Mining, whose feedback helped me a lot. I would like to specially thank my mother, dad, wife, and sister for all the support they provided. I would like to dedicate this book to my grandparents, son, and niece.

    About the Reviewers

    Jeremy Gray is a data scientist with over 8 years of experience and is based in Toronto.

    He completed his PhD in biology at the University of Auckland (the birthplace of R) and worked as a post-doctoral fellow and course instructor at the University of Toronto. His research interests are primarily in using R as an integrated machine learning environment, financial modeling, and consumer analytics, as well as pedagogical methods in scientific computing.

    I would like to thank my wonderful fiancé, Mandy Cheema, for her support during the reviewing of this book.

    Navin K Manaswi is a data science professional who loves to delve into messy complex data to bring meaningful insights out of it. Although he has been recognized as one of the top 10 data scientists in India, he still loves to learn everyday as a curious child does. Having done both his bachelor's and master's from IIT Kanpur, he has been contributing to the world of data analytics, machine learning, big data technologies, and business intelligence. So far, he has worked at the intersection of technologies and business domains of supply chain management, sales and marketing, finance, and healthcare.

    I would like to thank my mother, Smt. Geeta, for invaluable guidance.

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    Preface

    According to an article in Harvard Business Review, a data scientist's job is the best job of the 21st century. With the massive explosion in the amount of data generated, and with organizations becoming increasingly data-driven, the requirement for data science professionals is ever increasing.

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