- From www.futurelearn.com
More Data Mining with Weka
Closed
Course
en
English
20 h
This content is rated 0 out of 5
- 5 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on May 7, 2017
- Ends on June 11, 2017
Course details
Syllabus
This course introduces advanced data mining skills, following on from Data Mining with Weka. You’ll process a dataset with 10 million instances. You’ll mine a 250,000-word text dataset. You’ll analyze a supermarket dataset representing 5000 shopping baskets. You’ll learn about filters for preprocessing data, selecting attributes, classification, clustering, association rules, cost-sensitive evaluation. You’ll meet learning curves and automatically optimize learning parameters. Weka originated at the University of Waikato in NZ, and Ian Witten has authored a leading book on data mining.
Who is the course for?
This course is aimed at anyone who deals in data. It follows on from Data Mining with Weka, and you should have completed that first (or have otherwise acquired a rudimentary knowledge of Weka). As with the previous course, it involves no computer programming, although you need some experience with using computers for everyday tasks. High-school maths is more than enough; some elementary statistics concepts (means and variances) are assumed.
What software or tools do you need?
Before the course starts, download the free Weka software. It runs on any computer, under Windows, Linux, or Mac. It has been downloaded millions of times and is being used all around the world.
(Note: Depending on your computer and system version, you may need admin access to install Weka.)
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Teachers from University of Waikato
Editor
The University of Waikato sits among the top 3% of universities world-wide. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings from late 2016 placed the University at 324 in the world – up from 338 in 2015, based on a range of criteria including reputation, research, teaching, employability and internationalisation. Times Higher Education ranked Waikato 68 out of 100 “most international” universities in the world. Within its seven faculties, the university strives to provide a future-focused curriculum and is committed to ongoing investment in technology, and campus and programme development. It offers a broad range of qualifications for undergraduate and graduate students, priding itself on the flexibility of its degrees. Teaching methods at Waikato prepare students to think critically and to show initiative in their learning. All programmes are taught with a balance of theoretical knowledge and the practical application of that theory. As one of New Zealand’s major research organisations, the university works collaboratively with researchers throughout New Zealand and across the world.
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.
This content is rated 4.5 out of 5
(no review)This content is rated 4.5 out of 5
(no review)Complete this resource to write a review