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Machine Learning with R Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Machine Learning with R Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to implementing machine learning techniques from scratch using R 3.5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838644338
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iván Pastor Sanz Iván Pastor Sanz
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Predicting Failures of Banks - Data Collection

In each model development, we will need to obtain enough data to build the model. It is very common to read the expression garbage in, garbage out, which relates to the fact that if you develop a model with bad data, the resulting model will be also bad.

Especially in machine learning applications, what we expect is to have a huge amount of data, although in many cases that's not the case. Regardless of the amount of information available, the quality of this data is the most important issue.

Moreover, as a developer, it is important to have structured data, because it can be immediately manipulated. However, data is commonly found in an unstructured form, meaning that it takes a lot of time to process and prepare for development. Many people consider machine learning applications to only be based on the use of new algorithms...

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Machine Learning with R Quick Start Guide
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