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R for Data Science Cookbook (n)

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784390815
Pages 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu) Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
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Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu) is the founder of LargitData (www.LargitData.com), a startup company that mainly focuses on providing big data and machine learning products. He has previously worked for Trend Micro as a software engineer, where he was responsible for building big data platforms for business intelligence and customer relationship management systems. In addition to being a start-up entrepreneur and data scientist, he specializes in using Spark and Hadoop to process big data and apply data mining techniques for data analysis. Yu-Wei is also a professional lecturer and has delivered lectures on big data and machine learning in R and Python, and given tech talks at a variety of conferences. In 2015, Yu-Wei wrote Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Packt Publishing. In 2013, Yu-Wei reviewed Bioinformatics with R Cookbook, Packt Publishing. For more information, please visit his personal website at www.ywchiu.com. **********************************Acknowledgement************************************** I have immense gratitude for my family and friends for supporting and encouraging me to complete this book. I would like to sincerely thank my mother, Ming-Yang Huang (Miranda Huang); my mentor, Man-Kwan Shan; the proofreader of this book, Brendan Fisher; Members of LargitData; Data Science Program (DSP); and other friends who have offered their support.
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

R for Data Science Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Functions in R 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

Downloading open data

Before conducting any data analysis, an essential step is to collect high-quality, meaningful data. One important data source is open data, which is selected, organized, and freely available to the public. Most open data is published online in either text format or as APIs. Here, we introduce how to download the text format of an open data file with the download.file function.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you need to prepare your environment with R installed and a computer that can access the Internet.

How to do it…

Please perform the following steps to download open data from the Internet:

  1. First, visit the http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EGSPC+Historical+Prices link to view the historical price of the S&P 500 in Yahoo Finance:

    Figure 1: Historical price of S&P 500

  2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, right-click and copy the link in Download to Spreadsheet (the link should appear similar to http://real-chart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=%5EGSPC&d=6&e...

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Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu) is the founder of LargitData (www.LargitData.com), a startup company that mainly focuses on providing big data and machine learning products. He has previously worked for Trend Micro as a software engineer, where he was responsible for building big data platforms for business intelligence and customer relationship management systems. In addition to being a start-up entrepreneur and data scientist, he specializes in using Spark and Hadoop to process big data and apply data mining techniques for data analysis. Yu-Wei is also a professional lecturer and has delivered lectures on big data and machine learning in R and Python, and given tech talks at a variety of conferences. In 2015, Yu-Wei wrote Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Packt Publishing. In 2013, Yu-Wei reviewed Bioinformatics with R Cookbook, Packt Publishing. For more information, please visit his personal website at www.ywchiu.com. **********************************Acknowledgement************************************** I have immense gratitude for my family and friends for supporting and encouraging me to complete this book. I would like to sincerely thank my mother, Ming-Yang Huang (Miranda Huang); my mentor, Man-Kwan Shan; the proofreader of this book, Brendan Fisher; Members of LargitData; Data Science Program (DSP); and other friends who have offered their support.
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