Explore the adoption of chatbots in business by focusing on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of chatbots in a business, with a single use-case from the banking and insurance sector. This book starts by identifying the business processes in the banking and insurance industry. This involves data collection from sources such as conversations from customer service centers, online chats, emails, and other NLP sources. You'll then design the solution architecture of the chatbot. Once the architecture is framed, the author goes on to explain natural language understanding (NLU), natural language processing (NLP), and natural language generation (NLG) with examples. In the next sections, you'll design and implement the backend framework of a typical chatbot from scratch. You will also explore some popular open-source chatbot frameworks such as Dialogflow and LUIS. The authors then explain how you can integrate various third-party services and enterprise databases with the custom chatbot framework. In the final section, you'll discuss how to deploy the custom chatbot framework on the AWS cloud. By the end of Building an Enterprise Chatbot, you will be able to design and develop an enterprise-ready conversational chatbot using an open source development platform to serve the end user. What You Will Learn Identify business processes where chatbots could be used Focus on building a chatbot for one industry and one use-case rather than building a ubiquitous and generic chatbot Design the solution architecture for a chatbot Integrate chatbots with internal data sources using APIs Discover the differences between natural language understanding (NLU), natural language processing (NLP), and natural language generation (NLG) Work with deployment and continuous improvement through representational learning Who This Book Is ForData scientists and enterprise architects who are currently looking to deploy chatbot solutions to their business.

Examine the latest technological advancements in building a scalable machine-learning model with big data using R. This second edition shows you how to work with a machine-learning algorithm and use it to build a ML model from raw data. You will see how to use R programming with TensorFlow, thus avoiding the effort of learning Python if you are only comfortable with R. As in the first edition, the authors have kept the fine balance of theory and application of machine learning through various real-world use-cases which gives you a comprehensive collection of topics in machine learning. New chapters in this edition cover time series models and deep learning. What You'll Learn Understand machine learning algorithms using R Master the process of building machine-learning models Cover the theoretical foundations of machine-learning algorithms See industry focused real-world use cases Tackle time series modeling in R Apply deep learning using Keras and TensorFlow in R Who This Book is For Data scientists, data science professionals, and researchers in academia who want to understand the nuances of machine-learning approaches/algorithms in practice using R.

Learn the ropes of supervised machine learning with R by studying popular real-world use-cases, and understand how it drives object detection in driver less cars, customer churn, and loan default prediction. Key Features Study supervised learning algorithms by using real-world datasets Fine tune optimal parameters with hyperparameter optimization Select the best algorithm using the model evaluation framework Book DescriptionR provides excellent visualization features that are essential for exploring data before using it in automated learning. Applied Supervised Learning with R helps you cover the complete process of employing R to develop applications using supervised machine learning algorithms for your business needs. The book starts by helping you develop your analytical thinking to create a problem statement using business inputs and domain research. You will then learn different evaluation metrics that compare various algorithms, and later progress to using these metrics to select the best algorithm for your problem. After finalizing the algorithm you want to use, you will study the hyperparameter optimization technique to fine-tune your set of optimal parameters. To prevent you from overfitting your model, a dedicated section will even demonstrate how you can add various regularization terms. By the end of this book, you will have the advanced skills you need for modeling a supervised machine learning algorithm that precisely fulfills your business needs. What you will learn Develop analytical thinking to precisely identify a business problem Wrangle data with dplyr, tidyr, and reshape2 Visualize data with ggplot2 Validate your supervised machine learning model using k-fold Optimize hyperparameters with grid and random search, and Bayesian optimization Deploy your model on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda with plumber Improve your model's performance with feature selection and dimensionality reduction Who this book is forThis book is specially designed for novice and intermediate-level data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers who want to explore different methods of supervised machine learning and its various use cases. Some background in statistics, probability, calculus, linear algebra, and programming will help you thoroughly understand and follow the content of this book.