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Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook

By : Eric Rochester
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Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook

By: Eric Rochester

Overview of this book

<p>Data is everywhere and it's increasingly important to be able to gain insights that we can act on. Using Clojure for data analysis and collection, this book will show you how to gain fresh insights and perspectives from your data with an essential collection of practical, structured recipes.<br /><br />"The Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook" presents recipes for every stage of the data analysis process. Whether scraping data off a web page, performing data mining, or creating graphs for the web, this book has something for the task at hand.<br /><br />You'll learn how to acquire data, clean it up, and transform it into useful graphs which can then be analyzed and published to the Internet. Coverage includes advanced topics like processing data concurrently, applying powerful statistical techniques like Bayesian modelling, and even data mining algorithms such as K-means clustering, neural networks, and association rules.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Classifying data with the Naive Bayesian classifier


Bayesian classification is a way of updating your estimate of the probability that an item is in a given category, depending on what you already know about that item. In the case of a Naïve Bayesian system, we assume that all features are independent. This algorithm has been useful in a number of interesting areas, for example, spam detection in e-mails, automatic language detection, and document classification.

In this recipe, we'll apply it to the mushroom dataset that we looked at in the Classifying data with decision trees recipe.

Getting ready

First, we'll need to use the dependencies that we specified in the project.clj file in the Loading CSV and ARFF data into Weka recipe. We'll also need the following import in our script or REPL:

(import [weka.classifiers.bayes NaiveBayes])

For data, we'll use the mushroom dataset that we did in the Classifying data with decision trees recipe. You can download it from http://www.ericrochester.com...