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Published inJul 2016
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Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
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Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)

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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After completing data analysis, it is important to document the research results and share the findings with others. The most common methods involve documenting results through text, slides, or web pages. However, these formats are generally limited to only sharing the results and don't often include the research process. As a result, other researchers cannot reproduce the research, making it hard to fully understand how the author conducted the analysis. Without knowing how to replicate the research, the authenticity of the study may be questioned.

R scripts can be used to perform data analysis and generate figures, and it is possible to create a reproducible report by copying all the code and images into a document. However, as this is quite labor intensive, there is a risk of making errors. A better solution is to automate the documentation process. This allows the user to dynamically generate a report, in any format, which records both scripts and the analysis results.

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Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)

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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