Machine Learning in Java - Second Edition

Classification using Encog

In the previous section, you saw how to use a Weka library for classification. In this section, we will quickly look at how the same can be achieved by using the Encog library. Encog requires us to build a model to do the classification. Download the Encog library from https://github.com/encog/encog-java-core/releases. Once downloaded, add the .jar file in the Eclipse project, as explained at the beginning of the chapter.

For this example, we will use the iris dataset, which is available in .csv format; it can be downloaded from https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Iris. From the download path, copy the iris.data.csv file into your data directory. This file contains the data of 150 different flowers. It contains ...