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WEKA - what is it?

History
WEKA WEKAs GUI, old
and new
Impact
Mark Hall Downloads

Department of Computer Science, Projects based


University of Waikato, New Zealand on WEKA
The project today
Plans for the future
Weka: the bird

Copyright: Martin Kramer (mkramer@wxs.nl)


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WEKA: the software
Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis
Collection of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms
and data processing tools implemented in Java
Released under the GPL
Support for the whole process of experimental data mining
Preparation of input data
Statistical evaluation of learning schemes
Visualization of input data and the result of learning
Used for education, research and applications
Complements Data Mining by Witten & Frank

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Main Features
49 data preprocessing tools
76 classification/regression algorithms
8 clustering algorithms
15 attribute/subset evaluators + 10 search algorithms for
feature selection
3 algorithms for finding association rules
3 graphical user interfaces
The Explorer (exploratory data analysis)
The Experimenter (experimental environment)
The KnowledgeFlow (new process model inspired interface)

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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

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History - timeline
Late 1992 - funding was applied for by Ian Witten
1993 - development of the interface and infrastructure
WEKA acronym coined by Geoff Holmes
WEKAs file format ARFF was created by Andrew Donkin
ARFF was rumored to stand for Andrews 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):
A mbiguous and Unsupported m enu co m m ands re moved.
Crashing processes handled (in m ost cases :-)
October 1996 - first public release of WEKA (v 2.1)

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History - timeline
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)
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Back then

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Today:
Explorer: pre-processing the data
Data can be imported from a file in various
formats: ARFF, CSV, C4.5, binary
Data can also be read from a URL or from an SQL
databases using JDBC
Pre-processing tools in WEKA are called filters
WEKA contains filters for:
Discretization, normalization, resampling, attribute
selection, attribute combination,

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Explorer: Building classification
models
Classifiers in WEKA are models for predicting
nominal or numeric quantities
Implemented schemes include:
Decision trees and lists, instance-based classifiers,
support vector machines, multi-layer perceptrons,
logistic regression, Bayes nets,
Meta-classifiers include:
Bagging, boosting, stacking, error-correcting output
codes, data cleansing,

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Explorer: classification

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Explorer: classification

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Explorer: classification

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Explorer: classification

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Explorer: classification

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Explorer: classification

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Explorer: classification

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Explorer: classification

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Explorer: classification

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KnowledgeFlow: process flows

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KnowledgeFlow: batch processing

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KnowledgeFlow: batch processing

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KnowledgeFlow: incremental processing

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Experimenter

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Experimenter

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Experimenter

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Impact - downloads

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Projects based on WEKA
Incorporate/wrap WEKA
GRB Tool Shed - a tool to aid gamma ray burst research
YALE - facility for large scale ML experiments
GATE - NLP workbench with a WEKA interface
Judge - document clustering and classification
Extend/modify WEKA
BioWeka - extension library for knowledge discovery in biology
WekaMetal - meta learning extension to WEKA
Weka-Parallel - parallel processing for WEKA
Grid Weka - grid computing using WEKA
Weka-CG - computational genetics tool library

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The WEKA Project Today
FRST funding for the next two years
Goal of the project remains the same
People
6 staff
2 postdocs

3 PhD students

3 MSc students

2 research programmers

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The Future
Continue to develop and support WEKA
MOA (Massive Online Analysis)
Framework that supports learning from data streams
Facilities for data generation, experimental analysis, learning
algorithms, etc.
The Moa (another native NZ bird) is not only flightless, like
the Weka, but also extinct
First public release, probably this Christmas, or perhaps
Thanksgiving (as its just another turkey)
MILK
Multi-Instance Learning Kit
Proper
Propositionalization toolbox for WEKA
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