Here is what it can do for you:
BOOST PRODUCTIVITY: Learn how to build predictive analytic models in less time than you ever imagined possible! Even if you?re a busy professional or a student with little time. By spending as little as 10 minutes a day working through the dozens of real world examples, illustrations, practitioner tips and notes, you?ll be able to make giant leaps forward in your knowledge, strengthen your business performance, broaden your skill-set and improve your understanding.
SIMPLIFY ANALYSIS: You will discover over 90 easy to follow applied predictive analytic techniques that can instantly expand your modeling capability. Plus you?ll discover simple routines that serve as a check list you repeat next time you need a specific model. Even better, you?ll discover practitioner tips, work with real data and receive suggestions that will speed up your progress. So even if you?re completely stressed out by data, you?ll still find in this book tips, suggestions and helpful advice that will ease your journey through the data science maze.
SAVE TIME: Imagine having at your fingertips easy access to the very best of predictive analytics. In this book, you?ll learn fast effective ways to build powerful models using R.
LEARN FASTER:92 Applied Predictive Modeling Techniques in R offers a practical results orientated approach that will boost your productivity, expand your knowledge and create new and exciting opportunities for you to get the very best from your data.
IMPROVE RESULTS : Want to improve your predictive analytic results, but don?t have enough time? Right now there are a dozen ways to instantly improve your predictive models performance. Odds are, these techniques will only take a few minutes apiece to complete. The problem? You might feel like there?s not enough time to learn how to do them all. The solution is in your hands. It uses R, which is free, open-source, and extremely powerful software.
Here is some of what is included:
Support Vector Machines
Relevance Vector Machines
Neural networks
Random forests
Random ferns
Classical Boosting
Model based boosting
Decision trees
Cluster Analysis
For people interested in statistics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and future hands-on practitioners seeking a career in the field, it sets a strong foundation, delivers the prerequisite knowledge, and whets your appetite for more. Buy the book today. Your next big breakthrough using predictive analytics is only a page away!
