This book is intended for budding data scientists, quantitative analysts, and software engineers with only basic exposure to R and statistics. This book assumes familiarity with only the very basics of R, such as the main data types, simple functions, and how to move data around. No prior experience with data mining packages is necessary. However, you should have basic understanding of data mining concepts and processes.

Even if you are brand new to data mining, you will be able to master both the basic and the advanced implementations of data mining algorithms. You will learn how to select and apply the appropriate algorithms from various data mining algorithms to some specific datasets out of most of the datasets available for the real world.