Karthik Ramasubramanian - Machine Learning Using R

Karthik Ramasubramanian and Abhishek Singh

Machine Learning Using R With Time Series and Industry-Based Use Cases in R 2nd ed.

To our parents for being the guiding light and a strong pillar of support.

And to our long friendship.

We are grateful to our teachers, open source communities, and colleagues for enriching us with the knowledge and confidence to write the first edition of this book. Thanks to all our readers. You have made the second edition of the book possible. The knowledge in this book is an accumulation of several years of research work and professional experience gained at our alma mater and industry. We are grateful to Prof R. Nadarajan and Prof R. Anitha, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, for their continued support and encouragement for our efforts in the field of data science.

In the rapidly changing world, the field of machine learning is evolving very fast and most of the latest developments are driven by the open source platform. We thank all the developers and contributors across the globe who are freely sharing their knowledge. We also want to thank our colleagues our our past and current companiesSnapdeal, Deloitte, Hike, Prudential, Probyto, and Mahindra & Mahindrfor providing opportunities to experiment and create cutting-edge data science solutions.

Karthik especially would like to thank his father, Mr. S Ramasubramanian, for always being a source of inspiration in his life. He is immensely thankful to his supervisor, Mr. Nikhil Dwarakanath, director of the data science team at Snapdeal, for creating the opportunities to bring about the best analytics professional in him and providing the motivation to take up challenging projects.

Abhishek would like to thank his father, Mr. Charan Singh, a senior scientist in the India meteorological department, for introducing him to the power of data in weather forecasting in his formative years. On a personal front, Abhishek would like to thank his mother Jaya, sister Asweta, and brother Avilash, for their continued moral support.