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Be a classifier!

What’s it like to be a classifier? Load up the segment-challenge.arff dataset and examine the class values. Then choose the UserClassifier, a tree classifier. (If you can’t see it under …

Extending Weka with “packages”

Before we begin, you need to learn a little bit more about Weka. Weka has hundreds of different classifiers and scores of filtering algorithms. To simplify the interface, when you …

What’s it like to do data mining?

You’ll be asking what kind of problems might be addressed? What kind of input do you need about the problem? What kind of output can you expect from a data …

Visualizing your data

For successful data mining you must “know your data”; examine it in detail in every possible way. Weka’s Visualize panel lets you look at a dataset and select different attributes …

Using a filter

Weka include many filters that can be used before invoking a classifier to clean up the dataset, or alter it in some way. Filters help with data preparation. For example, …

Building a classifier

A classifier identifies an instance’s class, based on a training set of data. Weka makes it very easy to build classifiers. There are many different kinds, and here we use …

The glass data

The glass dataset is a more realistic dataset with 214 instances and 10 attributes. Each instance represents a piece of glass, and its class is the type of the glass. …

More weather

Key concepts when talking about datasets are instances, attributes, and the class (which is conventionally the last attribute). Attributes can be nominal or numeric (there are also other types). In …

The weather data

Here’s how to load a dataset into the Weka Explorer interface, and look around it to see what’s there. It’s a tiny “toy” dataset, but all these operations work equally …

Installing Weka

Here’s how to download the Weka data mining workbench and install it on your own computer. For future convenience, create a shortcut to the program and put it somewhere handy …

Installing Weka: preview

In the following video Ian downloads and installs the Weka system – and encourages you to do the same. (Note: Depending on your computer and system version, you may need …

Index

(A full index to the course appears at the end of Week 1.) Topic   Step Datasets Labor 5.5   Regression_outliers 5.3   Weather 5.4 Classifiers IBk 5.9   J48 …

Index

(A full index to the course appears at the end of Week 1.) TOPIC   Step Datasets Breast-cancer 4.9, 4.14   Cpu 4.4, 4.5   Cpu.with.vendor 4.5   Credit-g 4.12 …

Index

(A full index to the course appears at the end of Week 1.) Topic   Step Datasets Breast-cancer 3.11, 3.12, 3.14   Diabetes 3.4   Glass 3.5, 3.13, 3.14   …

Index

(A full index to the course appears at the end of Week 1.) Topic   Step Datasets Diabetes 2.11, 2.12, 2.16   Glass 2.13   Iris 2.13, 2.15   Segment-challenge/test …