Forte - Mastering predictive analytics with R: master the craft of predictive modeling by developing strategy, intuition, and a solid foundation in essential concepts

Ajay Dhamija is a senior scientist working in Defense R&D Organization, Delhi. He has more than 24 years' experience as a researcher and instructor. He holds an MTech (computer science and engineering) degree from IIT, Delhi, and an MBA (finance and strategy) degree from FMS, Delhi. He has more than 14 research works of international repute in varied fields to his credit, including data mining, reverse engineering, analytics, neural network simulation, TRIZ, and so on. He was instrumental in developing a state-of-the-art Computer-Aided Pilot Selection System (CPSS) containing various cognitive and psychomotor tests to comprehensively assess the flying aptitude of the aspiring pilots of the Indian Air Force. He has been honored with the Agni Award for excellence in self reliance, 2005, by the Government of India. He specializes in predictive analytics, information security, big data analytics, machine learning, Bayesian social networks, financial modeling, Neuro-Fuzzy simulation and data analysis, and data mining using R. He is presently involved with his doctoral work on Financial Modeling of Carbon Finance data from IIT, Delhi. He has written an international best seller, Forecasting Exchange Rate: Use of Neural Networks in Quantitative Finance (http://www.amazon.com/Forecasting-Exchange-rate-Networks-Quantitative/dp/3639161807), and is currently authoring another book on R named Multivariate Analysis using R .

Apart from analytics, Ajay is actively involved in information security research. He has associated himself with various international and national researchers in government as well as the corporate sector to pursue his research on ways to amalgamate two important and contemporary fields of data handling, that is, predictive analytics and information security.

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While associating with researchers from Predictive Analytics and Information Security Institute of India (PRAISIA @ www.praisia.com) in his research endeavors, he has worked on refining methods of big data analytics for security data analysis (log assessment, incident analysis, threat prediction, and so on) and vulnerability management automation.

I would like to thank my fellow scientists from Defense R&D Organization and researchers from corporate sectors such as Predictive Analytics & Information Security Institute of India (PRAISIA), which is a unique institute of repute and of its own kind due to its pioneering work in marrying the two giant and contemporary fields of data handling in modern times, that is, predictive analytics and information security, by adopting custom-made and refined methods of big data analytics. They all contributed in presenting a fruitful review for this book. I'm also thankful to my wife, Seema Dhamija, the managing director of PRAISIA, who has been kind enough to share her research team's time with me in order to have technical discussions. I'm also thankful to my son, Hemant Dhamija, who gave his invaluable inputs many a times, which I inadvertently neglected during the course of this review. I'm also thankful to a budding security researcher, Shubham Mittal from MakeMyTrip, for his constant and constructive critiques of my work.