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R for Data Science Cookbook (n)

You're reading from   R for Data Science Cookbook (n) Over 100 hands-on recipes to effectively solve real-world data problems using the most popular R packages and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784390815
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu) Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
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Preface 1. Functions in R FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Extracting, Transforming, and Loading 3. Data Preprocessing and Preparation 4. Data Manipulation 5. Visualizing Data with ggplot2 6. Making Interactive Reports 7. Simulation from Probability Distributions 8. Statistical Inference in R 9. Rule and Pattern Mining with R 10. Time Series Mining with R 11. Supervised Machine Learning 12. Unsupervised Machine Learning Index

Chapter 12. Unsupervised Machine Learning

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Clustering data with hierarchical clustering
  • Cutting trees into clusters
  • Clustering data with the k-means method
  • Clustering data with the density-based method
  • Extracting silhouette information from clustering
  • Comparing clustering methods
  • Recognizing digits using density-based clustering methods
  • Grouping similar text documents with k-means clustering methods
  • Performing dimension reduction with Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
  • Determining the number of principal components using a scree plot
  • Determining the number of principal components using the Kaiser method
  • Visualizing multivariate data using a biplot
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