Machine Learning in Java - Second Edition

Data

For this task, we will take a look at the ZOO database. The database contains 101 data entries of 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

 

An example entry in the dataset is a lion, with the following attributes:

• animal: lion
• hair: true
• feathers: false
• eggs: false
• milk: true
• airborne: false
• aquatic: false
• predator: true
• toothed: true
• backbone: true
• breathes: true
• venomous: false
• fins: false
• legs: 4
• tail: true
• domestic: false
• catsize: true
• type: mammal

Our task will be to build a model to predict the outcome variable, animal ...