History:

• In 1993, the University of Waikato in New Zealand began development of the

original version of Weka, which became a mix of Tcl/Tk, C, and Makefiles.
• In 1997, the decision was made to redevelop Weka from scratch in Java,
including implementations of modeling algorithms.
• In 2005, Weka received the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Service
Award.
• In 2006, Pentaho Corporation acquired an exclusive licence to use Weka
for business intelligence.
Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (Weka) is a suite of machine
learning software written in Java, developed at the University of
Waikato, New Zealand. It is free software licensed under the GNU General
Public License.
Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (Weka) is a suite of machine
learning software written in Java, developed at the University of
Waikato, New Zealand. It is free software licensed under the GNU General
Public License.
Weka contains a collection of visualization tools and algorithms for data
analysis and predictive modelling, together with graphical user interfaces
for easy access to these functions.
Main features of weka:

• 49 data processing tools

• 8 clustering algorithms
• 76 classification algorithms
• 3 graphical user interface. The explorer, The experimenter and the
knowledge flow.
Advantages of Weka include:

1. As weka is fully implemented in java programing languages, it is platform

independent & portable.
2. It is freely available under GNU General Public License.
3. There is very large collection of different data mining algorithms.
4. Ease of use due to its graphical user interfaces.