Big Data Analytics with Java

Flower species classification using multi-Layer perceptrons

This is a simple hello world-style program for performing classification using multi-layer perceptrons. For this, we will be using the famous Iris dataset, which can be downloaded from the UCI Machine Learning Repository at https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Iris. This dataset has four types of datapoints, shown as follows:

Attribute name	Attribute description
Petal Length	Petal length in cm
Petal Width	Petal width in cm
Sepal Length	Sepal length in cm
Sepal Width	Sepal width in cm
Class	The type of iris flower that is Iris Setosa, Iris Versicolour, Iris Virginica

This is a simple dataset with three types of Iris classes, as mentioned in the table.

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