Advanced Machine Learning with R: Tackle data analytics and machine learning challenges and build complex applications with R 3.5 - Softcover

Lesmeister, Cory; Chinnamgari, Dr. Sunil Kumar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1838641777 ISBN 13: 9781838641771

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Master an array of machine learning techniques with real-world projects that interface TensorFlow with R, H2O, MXNet, and other languages

Key Features:

- Gain expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and predictive modeling techniques

- Build intelligent end-to-end projects for finance, social media, and a variety of other domains

- Implement multi-class classification, regression, and clustering in your models

Book Description:

R is one of the most popular languages when it comes to exploring the mathematical side of machine learning and easily performing computational statistics.

This Learning Path shows you how to leverage the R ecosystem to build efficient machine learning applications that carry out intelligent tasks within your organization. You'll work through realistic projects such as building powerful machine learning models with ensembles to predict employee attrition. Next, you'll explore different clustering techniques to segment customers using wholesale data and even apply TensorFlow and Keras-R for performing advanced computations. Each chapter will help you implement advanced machine learning algorithms using real-world examples. You'll also be introduced to reinforcement learning along with its use cases and models. Finally, this Learning Path will provide you with a glimpse into how some of these black box models can be diagnosed and understood.

By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be equipped with the skills you need to deploy machine learning techniques in your own projects.

What You Will Learn:

- Develop a joke recommendation engine to show jokes that match users' tastes

- Build autoencoders for credit card fraud detection

- Work with image recognition and convolutional neural networks

- Make predictions for casino slot machines using reinforcement learning

- Implement natural language processing (NLP) techniques for sentiment analysis and customer segmentation

- Produce simple and effective data visualizations for improved insights

- Use NLP to extract insights for text

- Implement tree-based classifiers including random forest and boosted tree

Who this book is for:

If you're a data analyst, data scientist, or machine learning developer who wants to master machine learning techniques using R, this is an ideal Learning Path for you. Each project will help you test your skills in implementing machine learning algorithms and techniques. A basic understanding of machine learning and working knowledge of R programming is necessary to get the most out of this Learning Path.

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About the Authors

Cory Lesmeister has over fourteen years of quantitative experience and is currently a senior data scientist for the advanced analytics team at Cummins, Inc. in Columbus, Indiana. He has spent 16 years at Eli Lilly and Company in sales, market research, Lean Six Sigma, marketing analytics, and new product forecasting. He also has several years of experience in the insurance and banking industries, both as a consultant and as a manager of marketing analytics. A former US Army active duty and reserve officer, Cory was stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2009. Here, he served as the strategic advisor to the 29,000-person Iraqi Oil Police, succeeding where others failed by acquiring and delivering promised equipment to help the country secure and protect its oil infrastructure. He has a BBA in aviation administration from the University of North Dakota and a commercial helicopter license.

Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari has a Ph.D. in computer science and specializes in machine learning and natural language processing. He is an AI researcher with more than 14 years of industry experience. Currently, he works in the capacity of lead data scientist with a US financial giant. He has published several research papers in Scopus and IEEE journals and is a frequent speaker at various meetups. He is an avid coder and has won multiple hackathons. In his spare time, Sunil likes to teach, travel, and spend time with family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838641777
• ISBN 13: 9781838641771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 664