Data Mining with Weka (Waikato)

Offered by University of Waikato,
Data Mining with Weka (Waikato)

This 5 week MOOC will introduce data mining concepts through practical experience with the free Weka tool.

The course is hosted on the FutureLearn platform here:
Data Mining with Weka

Everybody talks about Data Mining and Big Data nowadays. Weka is a powerful, yet easy to use tool for machine learning and data mining.
A new session starts on 3 October 2016, and the course will run in self-paced unsupported mode until 3rd January; whereupon Statements of Completion will be produced and mailed out.

Schedule

Pre-course survey
Class 1 - Getting started with Weka
Class 2 - Evaluation
Mid-course assessment
Class 3 - Simple classifiers
Class 4 - More classifiers
Class 5 - Putting it all together
Post-course assessment
Post-course survey

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