Experiment : Installation of WEKA Tool

Aim: A. Investigation the Application

interfaces of the Weka tool. Introduction:
Introduction
Weka (pronounced to rhyme with Mecca) is a workbench
visualization tools and algorithms for data analysis and that contains a collection of
graphical user interfaces for easy access to these predictive modeling, together with
Weka was a Tc/Tk front-end to (mostly functions. The original non-Java version of
third-party) modeling algorithms implemented in other
programming languages, plus data preprocessing
running machine learning experiments. This utilities in C, and Make file-based system for
original
analyzing data from agricultural domains, but the moreversion was primarily designed as a tool for
recent fully
for which development
started in 1997, is now used in many Java-based version (Weka 3),
particular for educational purposes and research. different application areas, in
Advantages Weka include:
of
Free availability under the GNU
General
Portability, since it is fully implemented Public License.
in the Java
on almost any modern
computing programming language and thus runs
Acomprehensive collection of platform
data
Ease of use due to its graphical user preprocessing and modeling techniques
interfaces
Description:
Open the program. Once the program has
been loaded on the user's machine it is
navigating the programs start option and that will depend on
to opened by
the user"s operating system.
Figure 1.1 is an example of the initial opening screen on a
There are four options available on this initial
computer.
screen:
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1.
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 lnside the weka explorer window there are
six tabs:
Preprocess- used to choose the data file to be used by the application.
Open File- allows for the user to select files residing on the local machine or recorded medium
Open URL- provides a mechanism to locate afile or data source from a different location
specified by the user
Open Database- allows the user to retrieve files or data from a database source provided by user
2
Classify- used to test and train different learning schemes on the preprocessed data file under
experimentation

Fig: 1.3 choosing Zero set from classify

Again there are several options to be selected inside of the
classify tab. Test option gives the user
the choice of using four different test mode
scenarios on the data set.
1. Use training set
2. Supplied training set
3. Cross validation
4. Split percentage

3 Cluster- used to apply different tools that identify clusters within the data file.
The Cluster tab opens the process that is used to identify commonalties or clusters of occurrences
within the data set and produce information for the user to analyze.

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data. The associate tab opens a window to select the options for
associations within the dataset.

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inscatter plot and bar
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Experimenter -this option allows USers to conduct diferent experimental variations on data
sets and pertom statistical manipulation. The Weka Experiment Environment enables the user to
Create, run, modify, and analyze experiments in a more convenient manner than is possible when
processing the schemes individually. For example, the user can create an experiment that runs
Several schemes against a series of datasets and then analyze the results to detemine if one of the
schemes is (statistically) better than the other schemes.

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database.
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 drop
3. Knowledge Flow -basically the same functionality as Explorer with drag and
previous
functionality. The advantage of this option is that it supports incremental learning from
results
ability to execute
4. Simple CLI - provides users without a graphic interface option the
commands from a terminal window.
b. Explore the default datasets in weka tool.
directory.
double click on the data"
Click the "Open button to open a data set and
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References: (2005) Data Mining: Practical machine learning tools
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[1]Witten, LH. and Frank, Kaufmann, San Francisco. Publishers,
Morgan
techniques. 2nd edition Learning, Morgan Kaufmann
C4.5: Programs for Machine
[2] Ross Quinlan (1993).
San Mateo, CA.
(3] CVS-htp://weka.sourceforge.net/wikilindex.php/CVS
[4]Weka Doc-http://weka.sourceforge.net/wekadoc/

Exercise: normalization
min-max
1. Normalize the data using

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