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University of Waikato Machine Learning with WEKA WEKA: the bird WEKA: the software Machine learning/data mining software written in Java (distributed under the GNU Public License) Used for research, education, and applications Complements “Data Mining” by Witten Frank Main features: Comprehensive set of data pre-processing tools, learning algorithms and evaluation methods Graphical user interfaces (incl. data visualization) Environment for comparing learning algorithms History Project funded by the NZ government since 1993 Develop state-of-the art workbench of data mining tools Explore fielded applications Develop new fundamental methods History (2) Late 1992 - funding was applied for by Ian Witten 1993 - development of the interface and infrastructure WEKA acronym coined by Geoff Holmes WEKA’s file format “ARFF” was created by Andrew Donkin ARFF was rumored to stand for Andrew’s Ridiculous File Format Sometime in 1994 - first internal release of WEKA TCL/TK user interface + learning algorithms written mostly in C Very much beta software Changes for the b1 release included (among others): “Ambiguous and Unsupported menu commands removed.” “Crashing processes handled (in most cases :-)” October 1996 - first public release: WEKA 2.1 History (3) July 1997 - WEKA 2.2 Schemes: 1R, T2, K*, M5, M5Class, IB1-4, FOIL, PEBLS, support for C5 Included a facility (based on Unix makefiles) for configuring and running large scale experiments Early 1997 - decision was made to rewrite WEKA in Java Originated from code written by Eibe Frank for his PhD Originally codenamed JAWS (JAva Weka System) May 1998 - WEKA 2.3 Last release of the TCL/TK-based system Mid 1999 - WEKA 3 (100% Java) released Version to complement the Data Mining book Development version (including GUI) The GUI back then… WEKA: versions There are several versions of WEKA: WEKA 3.4: “book version” compatible with description in data mining book WEKA 3.5.5: “development version” with lots of improvements T