Balaji Venkateswaran - Neural Networks with R

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First published: September 2017

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ISBN 978-1-78839-787-2

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Giuseppe Ciaburro ; holds a master's degree in chemical engineering from Universit degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, and a master's degree in acoustic and noise control from Seconda Universit degli Studi di Napoli. He works at the Built Environment Control Laboratory of Universit degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli".

He has over 15 years of work experience in programming, first in the field of combustion and then in acoustics and noise control. His core programming knowledge is in Python and R, and he has extensive experience of working with MATLAB. An expert in acoustics and noise control, Giuseppe has wide experience in teaching professional computer courses (about 15 years), dealing with e-learning as an author. He has several publications to his credit: monographs, scientific journals, and thematic conferences. He is currently researching machine learning applications in acoustics and noise control.

Balaji Venkateswaran is an AI expert, data scientist, machine learning practitioner, and database architect. He has 17+ years of experience in investment banking payment processing, telecom billing, and project management. He has worked for major companies such as ADP, Goldman Sachs, MasterCard, and Wipro. Balaji is a trainer in data science, Hadoop, and Tableau. He holds a postgraduate degree PG in business analytics from Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.

Balaji has expertise relating to statistics, classification, regression, pattern recognition, time series forecasting, and unstructured data analysis using text mining procedures. His main interests are neural networks and deep learning.

Balaji holds various certifications in IBM SPSS, IBM Watson, IBM big data architect, cloud architect, CEH, Splunk, Salesforce, Agile CSM, and AWS.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to message him on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/balvenkateswaran); he will be more than glad to help fellow data scientists.

Juan Toms Oliva Ramos is an environmental engineer from the university of Guanajuato, Mexico, with a master's degree in administrative engineering and quality. He has more than 5 years of experience in management and development of patents, technological innovation projects, and development of technological solutions through the statistical control of processes. He has been a teacher of statistics, entrepreneurship, and technological development of projects since 2011. He became an entrepreneur mentor, and started a new department of technology management and entrepreneurship at instituto Tecnologico Superior de Purisima del Rincon.

Juan is a Alfaomega reviewer and has worked on the book Wearable designs for Smart watches, Smart TVs and Android mobile devices.

He has developed prototypes through programming and automation technologies for the improvement of operations, which have been registered for patents.

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