The Art of Machine Learning :A Hands-On Guide to Machine Learning with R

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The Art of Machine Learning :A Hands-On Guide to Machine Learning with R

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Machine learning without advanced math! This book presents a serious, practical look at machine learning, preparing you for valuable insights on your own data. The Art of Machine Learning is packed with real dataset examples and sophisticated advice on how to make full use of powerful machine learning methods. Readers will need only an intuitive grasp of charts, graphs, and the slope of a line, as well as familiarity with the R programming language. You'll become skilled in a range of machine learning methods, starting with the simple k-Nearest Neighbours method (k-NN), then on to random forests, gradient boosting, linear/logistic models, support vector machines, the LASSO, and neural networks. Final chapters introduce text and image classification, as well as time series. You'll learn not only how to use machine learning methods, but also why these methods work, providing the strong foundational background you'll need in practice. Additional features: How to avoid common problems, such as dealing with 'dirty' data and factor variables with large numbers of levels; A look at typical misconceptions, such as dealing with unbalanced data; Exploration of the famous Bias-Variance Tradeoff, central to machine learning, and how it plays out in practice for each machine learning method; Dozens of illustrative examples involving real datasets of varying size and field of application; Standard R packages are used throughout, with a simple wrapper interface to provide convenient access. After finishing this book, you will be well equipped to start applying machine learning techniques to your own datasets.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781718502109
ISBN10 1718502109
Number Of Pages 272
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller No Starch Press,US
Format paperback
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"In contrast to other books about machine learning, there is a bigger emphasis on programming and usage in practice. In particular, there is an excellent explanation of how to avoid over/under-fitting, and how to use cross-validation. This book is sure to be helpful for students who are interested to understand the core concepts, as well as their practical implementations in R."
—Toby Dylan Hocking, Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University

"The Art of Machine Learning by Norman Matloff is a welcome addition to a growing body of books about machine learning. Matloff, whose career spans both computer science and statistics, addresses the new and exciting field with a fresh approach."
—Dirk Eddelbuettel, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois

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Norman Matloff is an award-winning professor at the University of California, Davis. Matloff has a PhD in mathematics from UCLA and is the author of The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse and The Art of R Programming (both from No Starch Press).

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