Machine learning professionals and data scientists looking to master deep learning by implementing practical projects in R will find this book a useful resource. A knowledge of R programming and the basic concepts of deep learning is required to get the best out of this book.
Yuxi (Hayden) Liu was a Machine Learning Software Engineer at Google. With a wealth of experience from his tenure as a machine learning scientist, he has applied his expertise across data-driven domains and applied his ML expertise in computational advertising, cybersecurity, and information retrieval. He is the author of a series of influential machine learning books and an education enthusiast. His debut book, also the first edition of Python Machine Learning by Example, ranked the #1 bestseller in Amazon and has been translated into many different languages.
Pablo Maldonado is an applied mathematician and data scientist who has had a taste for software development since his days of programming BASIC on a Tandy 1000. As an academic and business consultant, he spends a great deal of his time building applied artificial intelligence solutions for text analytics, sensor and transactional data, and reinforcement learning. Pablo earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics (with a focus on mathematical game theory) at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France.