Talk:Data Mining Algorithms In R

Why not merge your book with that of "R programming" ?
Wouldn't it go well together?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/R_Programming

Cheers.

Need English Technical Writer/Editor
I've only looked at a few pages (eg: PCA, SVD) but, based on those pages, I think this book needs a skilled editor. I think that the following needs to occur:
 * 1) Book needs to be reviewed for spelling and grammar. I found many mistakes on the SVD page despite not understanding most of what I was reading
 * 2) I don't really have the right words to describe this problem but I'll give it a try. The style of the text is very formal. I understand that this text is aimed at a super-nerdy math/computer crowd, but I think the it should be written less formally. This text reads the way I write technical doc. As I read this doc, I keep hearing a former coworker, DM, yelling at me for thinking I could write something that wasn't too technical/formal. While I never learned to fix things the way DM fixed my text, I guess I learned that I needed her and recognize that here. If it is any help, DM always said I gave her great starting material and made her job easy. I think this text is great starting material for an editor. (If I didn't think that I wouldn't have spent so much time on this comment!)
 * 3) Be checked for consistency. For example the PCA page has a section labeled "Scenario" while, prior to my edit, the SVD page had a comparable section labeled "Scenary".
 * 4) Probably be checked for errors that non-native English writers typically make. I'm not a language expert or technical editor so I have no knowledge if these exist but I imagine that they do and are different depending on the native language of the writer (eg: for reasons I can't identify, I think the original author of the pages I read natively spoke Chinese).

I intend no offense to the author of this book, to non-native English writers, or native Chinese writers. (I only speak one language and I'm jealous of anyone who can speak multiple languages). I just think the quality, or perhaps better, the accessibility of this book would be greatly improved if someone who is more experienced at writing English technical documents gave it a good edit. Unfortunately I am not such a person.

Neil Smithline (discuss • contribs) 03:56, 18 January 2012 (UTC)