Chapter 12. Specialized Machine Learning Topics
Congratulations on reaching this point in your machine learning journey! If you have not already started work on your own projects, you will do so soon. And in doing so, you may find that the task of turning data into action is more difficult than it first appeared.
As you gathered data, you may have realized that the information was trapped in a proprietary format or spread across pages on the Web. Making matters worse, after spending hours reformatting the data, maybe your computer slowed to a crawl after running out of memory. Perhaps R even crashed or froze your machine. Hopefully, you were undeterred, as these issues can be remedied with a bit more effort.
This chapter covers techniques that may not apply to every project, but will prove useful for working around such specialized issues. You might find the information particularly useful if you tend to work with data that is:
- Stored in unstructured or proprietary formats such as...
