Rapid Miner Session

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Three steps for useAssign the dataset file firstAssign the analysis type you wantExecute your analysis by RM, change the type if needed.

Sample DatasetsYou can use the ARFF format datasets provide in course website.Or, Proben Datasets from UCI, you need to change the data format to ARFF before use. Can be found in our website also.

Step 1

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Download and Install Rapid Minerhttp://rapid-i.com/content/view/130/82/

Create a Rapid Miner Project ( click “new” icon )

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Set a data source for project , usually is a data file( arff format or excel spread format), we use arff file as example

Setting data source

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Assign the data file to data source

Setting data source(cont)

Step2

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Choose one of the data mining analysis type for project, such as clustering, classification, decision tree, etc. For example, we choose the clustering. Right click the “Root” menu of left side to select the “simpleKMean” method to do the clustering as below:

Select analysis type

Step2

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Decide the detail parameters for clustering.

Decide Parameters

Step3

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Execute . click the “ ” button in top side to run the clustering.

Execute

Step3

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Check results from output panel. There are many different output panels if you choose different analysis function.

Check results