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The Essentials of Data Science: Knowledge Discovery Using R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series)
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The Essentials of Data Science: Knowledge Discovery Using R presents the concepts of data science through a hands-on approach using free and open source software. It systematically drives an accessible journey through data analysis and machine learning to discover and share knowledge from data.
Building on over thirty years’ experience in teaching and practising data science, the author encourages a programming-by-example approach to ensure students and practitioners attune to the practise of data science while building their data skills. Proven frameworks are provided as reusable templates. Real world case studies then provide insight for the data scientist to swiftly adapt the templates to new tasks and datasets.
The book begins by introducing data science. It then reviews R’s capabilities for analysing data by writing computer programs. These programs are developed and explained step by step. From analysing and visualising data, the framework moves on to tried and tested machine learning techniques for predictive modelling and knowledge discovery. Literate programming and a consistent style are a focus throughout the book.
- ISBN-101138088633
- ISBN-13978-1138088634
- Edition1st
- PublisherChapman and Hall/CRC
- Publication dateJuly 17, 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.1 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches
- Print length344 pages
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"I have several books on data science and R, as well as other similar subjects and programming languages, in my personal library. However, this book is a great blend of important data science topics and R programming that will make it a great reference for anyone working in this important and immensely popular area. I highly recommend this book for college students learning what it takes to start their career in data science or even current professionals wanting to make a career change or who just want to know more about the subject (and do some R programming as well)."
~Dean V. Neubauer, Techometrics
"Due to the self-contained introduction to many of the features of R and RStudio, Graham J. Williams The Essentials of Data Science, Knowledge Discovery Using R would make an excellent recommended or supplementary text for a course that plans to use the rattle package. This book would also serve as a great resource for those with an interest in data science who would like a hands-on approach to learning R and gettting a flavor for a handful of topics within data science."
~Katherine M. Kinnaird, Brown University
About the Author
Graham J. Williams is Director of Data Science with Microsoft and Honorary Associate Professor with the Australian National University. He is also Adjunct Professor with the University of Canberra. He was previously Senior Director of Analytics with the Australian Taxation Office, Lead Data Scientist with the Australian Government's Centre of Excellence in Data Analytics, and International Visiting Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Over three decades , Graham has been an active machine learning researcher and author of many publications and software including Rattle. As a practitioner of data science he has deployed solutions in areas including finance, banking, insurance, health, education and government. He is also chair and steering committee member of international conferences in knowledge discovery, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining.
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- Publisher : Chapman and Hall/CRC
- Publication date : July 17, 2017
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 344 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1138088633
- ISBN-13 : 978-1138088634
- Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.1 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches
- Part of series : Chapman & Hall/CRC The R
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,187 in Data Mining (Books)
- #10,210 in Database Storage & Design
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sorry but very disappointed...
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2017I apologize in advance for my mediocre English, but this will not affect the meaning of my comment (of course) ;)
Then:
very disappointed
the only thing worthy of note is the template models, that can be usable for an "ordered workflow" although still optimizable
1) no reference to statistical notions behind visual analisys of variable (for example if possibily interaction or relation between two or more variable is
statistically significant --> no parametrics or non parametrics tests are exposed..)
2) visualization techniques are very standard...(for example more rappresentative approaches like mosaic display, contingency tables, stratified
analysis , sieve diagrams, association plot, and many others, are NOT mentioned..that are basis for categorical data analysis)
3) then no reference to handle significant analysis of categorical variables.
4) no reference to correctly handle missing values (only hint to randomforest's "na.roughfix" method that is a very elementary approach if totally inadvisable)
5) no reference to regression, time series or others reported topics in "Aim and Scope of the book"..and their assumptions.
6) totally elementary presentation of classification strategies and modelling.
7) excessive exposition of performance measures (only for classification tasks) that in the most kaggle challengies are unused..(except ROC curve).
8) unnecessarily repeating code for train, validation and test dataset
9) no reference to serious tuning methods in dedicated libraries , no optimization strategies are mentioned..
10) no relevant resampling staregies which represent an important part of the Machine Learning are reported
11) classic classification algorithms are presentated, like 'rpart', 'randomforest' and 'xgboost' in a EXTREME elementary way..any tutorial on github, kaggle, or any online resource is much superior.
12) what makes me laugh is also a recommendation that author make in "Exercise section" of Ensemble chapter:.."try also deep Neural networks as algorithm..
good...Deep learning is a beast.. it can not be handled or mastered even in a dedicated books, and he says: try deep learning...without even mentioning the algorithm or extremely new relevant libraries like TensorFlow framework and Keras (its wrapper available for Python and R)
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