Machine Learning

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Lecturer
Murata Tsuyoshi 
Place
Mon5-6(W833)  
Credits
Lecture2  Exercise0  Experiment0
Code
76017
Syllabus updated
2014/9/18
Lecture notes updated
2015/1/4
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Semester
Fall Semester

Purpose of lecture

The goal of this lecture is to learn basic data mining methods using Weka (a data mining tool).

Plan of lecture

1. Machine Learning and Data Mining, Weka
2. Concept descriptions, applications
3. Concept space, bias
4. Input data format, classification, association
5. Clustering, numerical prediction
6. Types of attributes and their transformations
7. Knowledge representation, decision trees, classification rules
8. Association rules, instance-based representation, clusters
9. Basic learning algorithms, Naive Bayes
10. Decision trees, information gain, gain ratio
11. Covering algorithms, rules and decision trees
12. Evaluation of learning, cross validation
13. t-statistic, minimum description length
14. Summary

Textbook and reference

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Third Edition)
I. H. Witten, E. Frank, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html

Related and/or prerequisite courses

none

Evaluation

Based on quizzes, assignments, and tests

Supplement

Please visit the following site for more information about this lecture.
http://www.ai.cs.titech.ac.jp/lecture/ml/

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