Mastering Predictive Analytics with R: Master the craft of predictive modeling by developing strategy, intuition, and a solid foundation in essential concepts - Couverture souple

Rui Miguel Forte

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783982802 ISBN 13 : 9781783982806

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

This book is intended for the budding data scientist or quantitative analyst with only a basic exposure to R and statistics. It is also designed to be a reference for experienced data scientists wanting to brush up on the details of particular types of predictive models. This book assumes familiarity with only the very basics of R, such as the main data types, simple functions, and how to move data around. No prior experience with machine learning or predictive modeling is assumed, however you should have a basic understanding of statistics and calculus at a high school level.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rui Miguel Forte is currently the chief data scientist at Workable. He was born and raised in Greece and studied in the UK. He is an experienced data scientist, having over 10 years of work experience in a diverse array of industries spanning mobile marketing, health informatics, education technology, and human resources technology. His projects have included predictive modeling of user behavior in mobile marketing promotions, speaker intent identification in an intelligent tutor, information extraction techniques for job applicant resumes and fraud detection for job scams. He currently teaches R, MongoDB, and other data science technologies to graduate students in the Business Analytics MSc program at the Athens University of Economics and Business. In addition, he has lectured in a number of seminars, specialization programs, and R schools for working data science professionals in Athens. His core programming knowledge is in R and Java, and he has extensive experience working with a variety of database technologies such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and HBase. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London and is currently researching machine learning applications in information extraction and natural language processing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783982802
• ISBN 13: 9781783982806
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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