Publications by Yanchang Zhao
An excellent introduction to MapReduce and Hadoop
by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com The lectures in week 3 of a free online course Introduction to Data Science give an excellent introduction to MapReduce and Hadoop, and demonstrate with examples how to use MapReduce to do various tasks, such as, word frequency counting, matrix multiplication, simple social network analysis, and a join operation ...
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Step by step to build my first R Hadoop System
by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com After reading documents and tutorials on MapReduce and Hadoop and playing with RHadoop for about 2 weeks, finally I have built my first R Hadoop system and successfully run some R examples on it. My experience and steps to achieve that are presented at http://www.rdatamining.com/tutorials/rhadoop. Hopefully it wi...
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Preview of book Data Mining Applications with R
An edited book titled Data Mining Applications with R will be on market soon, which features 15 real-word applications on data mining with R. A preview of the book is available on Google Books. R code, data and color figures for the book can be downloaded at RDataMining.com. Below is its table of contents. Foreword Graham Williams Chapter 1 Pow...
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New book release: Data Mining Applications with R
Book title: Data Mining Applications with R Editors: Yanchang Zhao, Yonghua Cen Publisher: Elsevier Publish date: December 2013 ISBN: 978-0-12-411511-8 Length: 514 pages URL: http://www.rdatamining.com/books/dmar An edited book titled Data Mining Applications with R was released in December 2013, which features 15 real-word applications on data m...
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Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) with R
This page shows Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) with R. It demonstrates with an example of automatic layout of Australian cities based on distances between them. The layout obtained with MDS is very close to their locations on a map. At first, the data of distances between 8 city in Australia are loaded from http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/v15/Mappi...
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CFP: AusDM 2014 – the 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference
********************************************************* 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2014) Brisbane, Australia 27-28 November 2014 http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/ ********************************************************* Data Mining is the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually big) data sets for meaningful insights. D...
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A Coursera course on Machine Learning starts on 16 June
A 10-week course on Machine Learning by Andrew Ng from Stanford University will start on Coursera on 16 June. Below are descriptions of the course picked up from Coursera. The course provides a broad introduction to machine learning, data mining, and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: (i) Supervised learning (parametric/non-parametr...
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A Sequence of 9 Courses on Data Science Starts on Coursera on 2 June and 7 July 2014
A sequence of 9 courses on Data Science will start on Coursera on 2 June and 7 July 2014, to be lectured by(Associate/Assistant) Professors of Johns Hopkins University. The courses are designed for students to learn to become Data Scientists and apply their skills in a capstone project. You can take the courses for free. However, if you want to g...
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Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up an R-Hadoop System
by Yanchang Zhao RDataMining.com Following my first R-Hadoop system setup guide written in Sept 2013, I have further tested setting up a Hadoop system for running R code, as well as using HBase. I have tested it both on a single computer and on a cluster of computers. The process is described in a newer version of guide to setting up an R-Hadoop ...
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Currency Exchange Rate Forecasting with ARIMA and STL
I have made an example of time series forecasting with R, demonstrating currency exchange rate forecasting with the ARIMA and STL models. The example is easy to understand and follow. R source files are provided to run the example. The example was produced with R Markdown. If you want to learn R Markdown, you can try the Rmd source file, which is...
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