Data Mining Algorithms in C++: Data Patterns and Algorithms for Modern Applications

© Timothy Masters 2018

Timothy MastersData Mining Algorithms in C++https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3315-3_5

5. Using the DATAMINE Program

Timothy Masters¹ 

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Ithaca, New York, USA

 

This chapter serves as a user’s manual for the DATAMINE program, which demonstrates the algorithms presented in this book. Each menu selection is discussed in its own section.

File/Read Data File

A text file in standard database format is read. In particular, standard-format Excel CSV files may be read, as well as databases produced by many common statistical and data analysis programs. The first line must specify the names of the variables in the database. The maximum length of each variable name is 15 characters. The name must start with a letter and may contain only ...