CHAPTER 17

Tutorial Exercises for the Weka Explorer

The best way to learn about the Explorer interface is simply to use it. This chapter presents a series of tutorial exercises that will help you learn about Explorer and also about practical data mining in general. The first section is introductory, but we think you will find the exercises in the later sections quite thought-provoking.

We begin with a quick, guided tour of the Explorer interface, examining each of the panels and what they can do, which largely parallels the introduction given in Chapter 11. Our screenshots are from Weka 3.6, although almost everything is the same with other versions.

17.1 Introduction to the explorer interface

Invoke Weka from the Windows Start menu (on Linux ...

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