Course: Advanced Data Mining with Weka

(A full index to the course appears at the end of Week 1.) Topic   Step Datasets anneal 5.5, 5.7, 5.11, 5.15   balance-scale 5.8, 5.10, 5.11, 5.15   bodyfat …

IDRC Shootout challenge: Information Dataset 1: calibration; test Dataset 2: calibration; test Datasets: anneal.train.arff anneal.unlbl.arff balance-scale.arff Before running the following scripts you will need to install the kfGroovy package using …

To set up Python with Weka you first need to install Python, and then install the python-weka-wrapper library for Python. You will probably need admin access to your computer for …

Have you found that repeatedly executing the same or similar tasks through an interactive interface like the Weka Explorer can become tedious? Scripts are programs that automate the execution of …

Here are the datasets and scripts used in the preceding video. Datasets: balance-scale.arff bodyfat.arff Plot the errors made by LinearRegression: crossvalidate_classifier-error-bubbles.py Display multiple ROC curves, one for each class: display_roc-multiple.py …

Thanks for taking this course. We hope you’ve enjoyed it. We’ve introduced you to some more advanced topics in practical data mining, following on from Data Mining with Weka and …

Here are the datasets and scripts used in the preceding video. The anneal dataset: anneal.arff (the full dataset) anneal_train.arff (used in the third script for training) anneal_unlbl.arff (used in the …

First install two packages using the Package Manager: the tigerjython package the jfreechartOffscreenRenderer package Then create an environment variable called MOOC_DATA that points to your Weka data files folder: On …

How might one come up with a solution like the one in the final question of the preceding Quiz? Here are some comments from Peter, our expert data miner, who …

(A full index to the course appears at the end of Week 1.) Topic   Step Datasets butterfly_vs_owl 4.14   hypothyroid 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 4.10, 4.12, 4.13   iris 4.6 …

(A full index to the course appears at the end of Week 1.) Topic   Step Datasets cpu 3.13   diabetes 3.9, 3.12, 3.13   Functional MRI data 3.16, 3.17 …

(A full index to the course appears at the end of Week 1.) Topic   Step Datasets Forest cover type (covtypeNorm) 2.3, 2.9, 2.12   labelled_tweets 2.12   NSW Electricity …

Of course, the answer is “yes”! The question is, how? There are several ways. For example, the Experimenter contains its own mechanism for distributing an experiment over many machines. (To …

The performance of Random Forest does tend to improve with more trees, but only up to a point. We found in the preceding Quiz that performance increases from 100 to …

How do you access R from Weka? Well, what is R anyway? And why is it important? And what can you do with it? Questions abound. Now for the answers.