This 3-day intermediate level workshop is catered to machine learning practitioners with an elementary understanding of R programming. It covers a series of common classification algorithms as well as text mining case studies in a highly practical fashion. We will extrapolate from the algebra behind regression models to understand the statistical details of a logistic regression in the first half of this workshop. We’ll also explore how data scientists deal with textual data as far as text mining, classification (prediction), and language models is concerned.