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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers
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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers

by Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Boštjan Kaluža, Dr. Uday Kamath, Krishna Choppella
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Classification

We will start with the most commonly used machine learning technique, that is, classification. As we reviewed in the first chapter, the main idea is to automatically build a mapping between the input variables and the outcome. In the following sections, we will look at how to load the data, select features, implement a basic classifier in Weka, and evaluate the classifier performance.

Data

For this task, we will have a look at the ZOO database [ref]. The database contains 101 data entries of the animals described with 18 attributes as shown in the following table:

animal

aquatic

fins

hair

predator

legs

feathers

toothed

tail

eggs

backbone

domestic

milk

breathes

cat size

airborne

venomous

type

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