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WEKA A Practical Machine Learning Tool

WEKA is a machine learning tool developed at the University of Waikato that contains algorithms for data mining tasks. It has a graphical user interface called Explorer that allows users to preprocess data, select classifiers, test options, and analyze results. WEKA also includes Experimenter for comparing algorithms on different datasets and KnowledgeFlow as an alternative graphical interface. It is written in Java and runs on many platforms.

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WEKA A Practical Machine Learning Tool

WEKA is a machine learning tool developed at the University of Waikato that contains algorithms for data mining tasks. It has a graphical user interface called Explorer that allows users to preprocess data, select classifiers, test options, and analyze results. WEKA also includes Experimenter for comparing algorithms on different datasets and KnowledgeFlow as an alternative graphical interface. It is written in Java and runs on many platforms.

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WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

WEKA A Practical Machine Learning Tool


WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Contents
1.Introduction to Weka
2.Explorer
3.Other three main tools
4.Conclusions
5.Reference
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Introduction What is Weka?


In nature: A flightless bird with an inquisitive nature found only
on the islands of New Zealand.
Actually: A practical machine learning tool developed by the
University of Waikato in New Zealand. It is short for Waikato
Environment for Knowledge Analysis.
Definition: A collection of machine learning algorithms for data
mining tasks.

Language: It is written in Java and runs on almost any platform.


Usage: The algorithms can either be applied:
(1) directly to a dataset (without writing any codes);
(2) called from your own Java code.
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Introduction Weka consists of


Explorer
Experimenter
Knowledge flow
Simple Command Line Interface(CLI)
Other tools and Visualization
Java interface
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Explorer
WEKAs main graphical user interface
Gives access to all its facilities using menu selection and form
filling.(Data-Preprocess/Classify/Cluster/Associate/Select
Attributes/Visualize)

1.Data
2. Operations of Explorer with a Classification example.
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Explorer Data(1)
From files: CSV, ARFF, C4.5 no *.xls
Data loaded from URL or DB
Attribute-Class Attribute

Instance

Instances
*.xls
*.csv
Tips weather.arff ( C:/Program Files/Weka/data/ )
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Explorer Data(2)
ARFF(Attribute-Relation File Format)
@relation <relation-name>
@attribute <attribute-name> <datatype>
numeric (real or integer numbers)
<nominal-specification>
string
date [<date-format>]
@data
% notes
More details:
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/
~ml/weka/arff.html
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Explorer Operations with an example


Input data Data preprocess Choose classifier Test
options Run Result analysis
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Explorer
Summary Statistics
Input data

Select an attribute

Visualization
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Weka Filter
Explorer
Tune Parameters

Apply the Filter

Select a Filter
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Explorer

Tune Parameters

Results
Select a Classifier

Decide how to evaluate

Model list
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Right-click on model to get


Menu (save, visualize, etc)
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Others Experimenter
Comparing different learning algorithms
------on different datasets
------with various parameter settings
------and analyzing the performance statistics

Click it for Experimenter


WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Others KnowledgeFlow
The KnowledgeFlow provides an alternative to the Explorer as a
graphical front end to Weka's core algorithms.
The KnowledgeFlow is a work in progress so some of the
functionality from the Explorer is not yet available.

Click it for KnowledgyFlow


WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Others Simple command line interface


All implementations of the algorithms have a uniform
command-line interface.
java weka.classifiers.trees.J48 -t weather.arf

Click it for Simple CLI


WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Conclusions
1.Explorer:
Input data Data preprocess Choose classifier Test options
Run Result analysis
2.Experimenter:
It is necessary for further studies.
3.Make full use of
1. Java tips;

2. WekaManual.pdf; (C:/Program Files/Weka/ )

3. Play it yourself!
WEKA: A Practical Machine Learning Tool

Reference

Mitchell, T. Machine Learning, 1997 McGraw Hill.


Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Len Trigg, Mark Hall, Geoffrey Holmes, and Sally Jo
Cunningham (1999). Weka: Practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java
implementations.

Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank (2005). Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools
and Techniques (Second Edition, 2005). San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann

Weka Homepage: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/

Wekawiki: http://weka.wikispaces.com/

Weka on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/weka


WekaManual.pdf (C:\Program Files\Weka-3-6\WekaManual.pdf)

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