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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Learning association rules from data


Association rule learning is a machine-learning technique to discover associations and rules between various features or variables in a dataset. A similar technique in statistics is known as correlation, which is covered in Chapter 3, Analyzing Data Statistically, but association rule learning is more useful in decision making. For instance, by analyzing big supermarket data, a machine-learning learner can discover that if a person buys onions, tomatoes, chicken patty, and mayonnaise, she will most likely buy buns (to make burgers).

In this recipe, we will see how we can use Weka to learn association rules from datasets.

Getting ready

We will be using the supermarket dataset that can be found in the data directory of our installed Weka directory. The total number of instances in the dataset is 4,627 instances with 217 binary attributes each. The attributes have a value of true or missing. There is a nominal class attribute called total that has the value...