Data Mining. Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques. Edition No. 3

Table of Contents

PART I: Introduction to Data MiningCh 1 What's It All About? Ch 2 Input: Concepts, Instances, Attributes Ch 3 Output: Knowledge RepresentationCh 4 Algorithms: The Basic Methods Ch 5 Credibility: Evaluating What's Been Learned PART II: Advanced Data Mining

Ch 6 Implementations: Real Machine Learning SchemesCh 7 Data TransformationCh 8 Ensemble LearningCh 9 Moving On: Applications and BeyondPART III: The Weka Data MiningWorkbenchCh 10 Introduction to WekaCh 11 The ExplorerCh 12 The Knowledge Flow InterfaceCh 13 The ExperimenterCh 14 The Command-Line InterfaceCh 15 Embedded Machine LearningCh 16 Writing New Learning SchemesCh 17 Tutorial Exercises for the Weka Explorer

Authors

Ian H. Witten Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Ian H. Witten is a professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by demonstration. He received an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England; an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Essex University, England. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography. Eibe Frank Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand.. Eibe Frank lives in New Zealand with his Samoan spouse and two lovely boys, but originally hails from Germany, where he received his first degree in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe. He moved to New Zealand to pursue his Ph.D. in machine learning under the supervision of Ian H. Witten and joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waikato as a lecturer on completion of his studies. He is now an associate professor at the same institution. As an early adopter of the Java programming language, he laid the groundwork for the Weka software described in this book. He has contributed a number of publications on machine learning and data mining to the literature and has refereed for many conferences and journals in these areas. Mark A. Hall Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand.. Mark A. Hall holds a bachelor's degree in computing and mathematical sciences and a Ph.D. in computer science, both from the University of Waikato. Throughout his time at Waikato, as a student and lecturer in computer science and more recently as a software developer and data mining consultant for Pentaho, an open-source business intelligence software company, Mark has been a core contributor to the Weka software described in this book. He has published several articles on machine learning and data mining and has refereed for conferences and journals in these areas.