R for Business Analytics looks at some of the most common tasks
performed by business analysts and helps the user navigate the wealth
of information in R and its 4000 packages. With this information the
reader can select the packages that can help process the analytical
tasks with minimum effort and maximum usefulness. The use of Graphical
User Interfaces (GUI) is emphasized in this book to further cut
down and bend the famous learning curve in learning R. This book is
aimed to help you kick-start with analytics including chapters on data
visualization, code examples on web analytics and social media
analytics, clustering, regression models, text mining, data mining
models and forecasting. The book tries to expose the reader to a
breadth of business analytics topics without burying the user in
needless depth. The included references and links allow the reader to
pursue business analytics topics. This book is aimed at business
analysts with basic programming skills for using R for Business
Analytics. Note the scope of the book is neither statistical theory
nor graduate level research for statistics, but rather it is for
business analytics practitioners. Business analytics (BA) refers to
the field of exploration and investigation of data generated by
businesses. Business Intelligence (BI) is the seamless dissemination
of information through the organization, which primarily involves
business metrics both past and current for the use of decision support
in businesses. Data Mining (DM) is the process of discovering new
patterns from large data using algorithms and statistical methods. To
differentiate between the three, BI is mostly current reports, BA is
models to predict and strategize and DM matches patterns in big data.
The R statistical software is the fastest growing analytics platform
in the world, and is established in both academia and corporations for
robustness, reliability and accuracy. The book utilizes Albert
Einstein’s famous remarks on making things as simple as possible,
but no simpler. This book will blow the last remaining doubts in your
mind about using R in your business environment. Even non-technical
users will enjoy the easy-to-use examples. The interviews with
creators and corporate users of R make the book very readable. The
author firmly believes Isaac Asimov was a better writer in spreading
science than any textbook or journal author.
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ISBN
9781461443438
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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