Data

mining with Weka

Here is the course outline, along with suggested background readings for those
who wish to dig deep. The course is designed so that participants at many
different levels can learn as much as possible and complete it successfully. The
readings are not a required part of the course.
Pre-course survey
Class 1 Getting started with Weka
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Exploring the Explorer

1.3 Exploring datasets
1.4 Building a classifier

1.5 Using a filter
1.6 Visualizing your data
Class 2 Evaluation
2.1 Be a classifier!
2.2 Training and testing
2.3 Repeated training and testing
2.4 Baseline accuracy
2.5 Cross-validation
2.6 Cross-validation results

Section 1.2 The weather problem

Chapter 10 Introduction to Weka
Section 11.1 Preparing/loading the data
Section 11.1 Building a decision tree

Examining the output
Section 11.2 Loading and filtering files
Section 11.2 Visualization
Section 11.2 User Classifier
Section 5.1 Training and testing
Section 5.3 Cross-validation

Mid-course assessment
Class 3 Simple classifiers
3.1 Simplicity first!
3.2 Overfitting
3.3 Using probabilities
3.4 Decision trees
3.5 Pruning decision trees
3.6 Nearest neighbor
Class 4 More classifiers
4.1 Classification boundaries
4.2 Linear regression
4.3 Classification by regression
4.4 Logistic regression
4.5 Support vector machines
4.6 Ensemble learning
Class 5 Putting it all together
5.1 The data mining process
5.2 Pitfalls and pratfalls
5.3 Data mining and ethics
5.4 Summary
Post-course assessment

Section 4.1 Inferring rules

Section 4.2 Statistical modeling
Section 4.3 Constructing decision trees
Section 6.1 Decision trees
Section 4.7 Instance-based learning
Section 17.3 Classification boundaries
Section 4.6 Linear regression
Section 4.6 Logistic regression
Section 6.4 Maximum-margin hyperplane
Chapter 8 Ensemble learning
Section 1.3 Fielded applications
Section 1.6 Data mining and ethics