Data Mining Applications with R

by Yanchang Zhao PhD, Yonghua Cen

Overview

Data Mining Applications with R is a great resource for researchers and professionals to understand the wide use of R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, in solving different problems in industry. R is widely used in leveraging data mining techniques across many different industries, including government, finance, insurance, medicine, scientific research and more. This book presents 15 different real-world case studies illustrating various techniques in rapidly growing areas. It is an ideal companion for data mining researchers in academia and industry looking for ways to turn this versatile software into a powerful analytic tool.

R code, Data and color figures for the book are provided at the RDataMining.com website.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780124115118
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/12/2013
Pages:	514
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

A Senior Data Mining Analyst in Australia Government since 2009.

Before joining public sector, he was an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (Industry) in the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include clustering, association rules, time series, outlier detection and data mining applications and he has over forty papers published in journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of the IEEE and a member of the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia, and served as program committee member for more than thirty international conferences.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Case Study in Finance

3.Case Study in Retail

4. Case Study in Telecommunications

5. Case Study in Government

6. Case Study in Crime & Homeland Security

7. Case Study in Stock Market

8. Case Study in Social Welfare

9. Case Study in Social Media

10. Case Study in Sports

11. Case Study in Medicine and Health

12. Case Study in Bioinformatics

13. Case Study in Sentiment Analysis

14. Case Study in Spatial Data Analysis

15. Case Study in Patent Analysis

16. Case Study in Education

17. Case Study in Transport

18. Case Study in Real Estate

Conclusions

Bibliography

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This book helps researchers and professionals bridge the gap between data mining techniques and real-world business problems using various R techniques and methodologies.

Editorial Reviews

"The book contains a wealth of modern material that should be covered in more depth in statistics courses: for example, missing data, outlier detection, missing imputation, correlation coefficient matrices, principles of model selection, text mining, and decision trees…The book has many hot and recent packages; many are written or have theory based on results developed since 2010." —MAA.org, April 23, 2014

"Zhao and Cen present 15 real-world applications of data mining with the open-source statistics software R. Each application covers the business background, and problems, data extraction and exploitation, data preprocessing, modeling, model evaluation, findings, and model deployment. They involve a diverse set of challenging problems in terms of data size, data type, data mining goals, and the methodologies and tools to carry out the analysis." —ProtoView.com, February 2014

From the Publisher