Data Mining Applications With R - 9780124115118

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.

Twenty different real-world case studies illustrate various techniques in rapidly growing areas, including:

• Retail
• Crime and homeland security
• Stock markets
• Social media
• Sports
• Bioinformatics
• Spatial data analysis
• Real estate

This book 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.

• Helps data miners to learn to use R in their specific area of work and see how R can apply in different industries
• Presents various case studies in real-world applications, which will help readers to apply the techniques in their work
• Provides code examples and sample data for readers to easily learn the techniques by running the code by themselves