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Installation of WEKA Tool

Introduction
Weka (pronounced to rhyme with Mecca) is a workbench that contains a collection of
visualization tools and algorithms for data analysis and predictive modeling, together with
graphical user interfaces for easy access to these functions. The original non-Java version of
Weka was a Tcl/Tk front-end to (mostly third-party) modeling algorithms implemented in other
programming languages, plus data preprocessing utilities in C, and Make file-based system for
running machine learning experiments. This original version was primarily designed as a tool for
analyzing data from agricultural domains, but the more recent fully Java-based version (Weka 3),
for which development started in 1997, is now used in many different application areas, in
particular for educational purposes and research. Advantages of Weka include:

 Free availability under the GNU General Public License.


 Portability, since it is fully implemented in the Java programming language and thus runs
on almost any modern computing platform
 A comprehensive collection of data preprocessing and modeling techniques
 Ease of use due to its graphical user interfaces

Description:
Open the program. Once the program has been loaded on the user‟s machine it is opened by
navigating to the programs start option and that will depend on the user‟s operating system.
Figure 1.1 is an example of the initial opening screen on a computer.
There are four options available on this initial screen:

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Fig: 1.1 Weka GUI

1. Explorer - the graphical interface used to conduct experimentation on raw data After clicking
the Explorer button the weka explorer interface appears.

Fig: 1.2 Pre-processor

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Inside the weka explorer window there are six tabs:
1. 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 a file 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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4. Association- used to apply different rules to the data file that identify association within the
data. The associate tab opens a window to select the options for associations within the dataset.

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5. Select attributes-used to apply different rules to reveal changes based on selected attributes
inclusion or exclusion from the experiment

6. Visualize- used to see what the various manipulation produced on the data set in a 2D format,
in scatter plot and bar graph output.

2. Experimenter - this option allows users to conduct different experimental variations on data
sets and perform 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 determine if one of the
schemes is (statistically) better than the other schemes.

Fig: 1.6 Weka experiment

Results destination: ARFF file, CSV file, JDBC database.


Experiment type: Cross-validation (default), Train/Test Percentage Split (data randomized).
Iteration control: Number of repetitions, Data sets first/Algorithms first.
Algorithms: filters

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3. Knowledge Flow -basically the same functionality as Explorer with drag and drop
functionality. The advantage of this option is that it supports incremental learning from previous
results
4. Simple CLI - provides users without a graphic interface option the ability to execute
commands from a terminal window.
b. Explore the default datasets in weka tool.

Click the “Open file…” button to open a data set and double click on the “data” directory.
Weka provides a number of small common machine learning datasets that you can use to practiceon.
Select the “iris.arff” file to load the Iris dataset.

Fig: 1.7 Different Data Sets in weka

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