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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

Classifying text documents using Weka


We used Weka in Chapter 4, Learn from Data - Part 1 to classify data points that are not in text format. Weka is a very useful tool to classify text documents using machine-learning models as well. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how you can use to develop document classification model using Weka 3.

Getting ready

  1. To download Weka, go to http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/downloading.html and you will find download options for Windows, Mac, and other operating systems such as Linux. Read through the options carefully and download the appropriate version. During the writing of this book, 3.9.0 was the latest version for the developers, and as the author already had version 1.8 JVM installed in his 64-bit Windows machine, he has chosen to download a self-extracting executable for 64-bit Windows without a Java VM.

  2. After the download is complete, double-click on the executable file and follow the on-screen instructions. You need to install the full version...