You have probably heard that R is a fabulous tool that is gaining in popularity everyday among data analysts and data scientists, and that it is renowned for its ability to deliver highly flexible and professional results, paired with astonishing data visualizations. All this sounds great, but how can you learn to use R as a data mining tool? This book will guide you from the very beginning of this journey; you will not need to bring anything with you except your curiosity, since we will discover everything we need along the way.
The book will help you develop these powerful skills through immersion in a crime case that requires the use of data mining skills to solve, where you will be asked to help resolve a real fraud case affecting a commercial company using both basic and advanced data mining techniques.
At the end of our trip into the R world, you will be able to identify data mining problems, analyze them, and correctly address them with the main data mining techniques (and some advanced ones), producing astonishing final reports to convey messages and narrate the stories you found within your data.
