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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Advanced Data Mining with Weka
The University of Waikato
This online course introduced expert-level skills in practical data mining. Participants learned how to use extensions to Weka to solve a variety of large-scale problems and to interface to scripting facilities and other data mining systems. They encountered diverse applications of data mining.
5 weeks, 4 hours per week
Ian H. Witten
Professor of Computer Science
The University of Waikato
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss the use of lagged variables in time series forecasting
- Explore the use of overlay data in time series forecasting
- Identify several different applications of data mining with Weka
- Compare incremental and non-incremental implementations of classifiers
- Evaluate the performance of classifiers under conditions of concept drift
- Classify tweets using various techniques
- Calculate optimal parameter values for non-linear support vector machines
- Demonstrate the use of R classifiers in Weka
- Develop R commands and R scripts from Weka
- Explain how distributed Weka runs Weka on a cluster of machines
- Experiment with distributed implementations of Weka classifiers and clusterers
- Explain how “map” and “reduce” tasks are used to distribute Weka
- Design Python and Groovy scripts for Weka operations
- Apply Python libraries to produce sophisticated visualizations of Weka output
- Describe how Weka can be invoked from within a Python environment
Syllabus
- Time series analysis
- Data stream mining
- Incremental classifiers
- Evolving data streams
- Support vector machines
- Accessing data mining in R
- Distributed data mining
- Map-reduce framework
- Scripting data mining in Python and Groovy
- Applications * Soil analysis * Sentiment analysis * Bioinformatics * MRI neuroimaging * Image classification
Issued on 16th December 2017
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