RapidMiner

Chapter 22

Instance Selection in RapidMiner

Marcin Blachnik

Silesian University of Technology, Department of Management and Informatics, Poland

Miroslaw Kordos

University of Bielsko-Biala, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bielsko-Biala, Poland

Acronyms

ISPR -Instance Selection and Prototype-based Rules

22.1 Introduction

In this chapter we discuss instance selection algorithms and show how to use them in RapidMiner with the ISPR plug-in.

Instance selection is an important pre-processing procedure, which provides us with many benefits. In the past, instance selection was primarily used to improve the accuracy of the nearest neighbor classifier or to speed up the decision-making process. Another significant problem that has appeared ...