Predictive Analytics using R and Java
Ever wondered how Star Sports is able to show the prediction of cricket match winner? You must have seen some fancy analysis like " India wins the match batting second 80% of the time when Virat Kohli scores 30+ runs in first 10 overs ". Recently I delivered a webinar on Predictive Analytics using R and Java on Techgig which has an answer to these questions. Predictive analytics is about predicting future outcomes based on currently available or historical data using several machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques. R - a language and environment for statistical computing, makes it really easy to quickly try out several algorithms like Decision Trees, Random Forests, Neural Networks etc. on top of your existing datasets. R packages, like Rattle, can quickly allow you to interactively create machine learning models which can be trained and exported to a PMML file format. The Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) is a platform agnostic, XML-based predicti...