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Java Data Science Cookbook

By : Rushdi Shams
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Java Data Science Cookbook

By: Rushdi Shams

Overview of this book

If you are looking to build data science models that are good for production, Java has come to the rescue. With the aid of strong libraries such as MLlib, Weka, DL4j, and more, you can efficiently perform all the data science tasks you need to. This unique book provides modern recipes to solve your common and not-so-common data science-related problems. We start with recipes to help you obtain, clean, index, and search data. Then you will learn a variety of techniques to analyze, learn from, and retrieve information from data. You will also understand how to handle big data, learn deeply from data, and visualize data. Finally, you will work through unique recipes that solve your problems while taking data science to production, writing distributed data science applications, and much more - things that will come in handy at work.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Java Data Science Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Selecting features/attributes using the low-level method, the filtering method, and the meta-classifier method


Feature selection is an important machine-learning process that identifies the most important attributes in a dataset from a set of attributes, so that if a classifier is generated based on the selected attributes, the classifier produces better results than the one with all the attributes.

In Weka, there are three ways of selecting attributes. This recipe will use all of the three ways of attribute selection techniques available in Weka: the low-level attribute selection method, attribute selection using a filter, and attribute selection using a meta-classifier.

Getting ready

The recipe will select important attributes of the iris dataset that can be found in the data directory of Weka's installed directory.

To perform attribute selection, two elements are required: a search method and an evaluation method. In our recipe, we will use Best First Search as our search method and a subset...