I am trying to train a model for classification.
My dataset has 42 features, some are string values and the others are float value.
I want to use preprocessing.StandardScaler() on the dataset and then used PCA to reduce the dimensions. How should I deal with the string values? Using LabelEncoder? is it also for dealing with the features but not the labels?
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It is in ARFF format. If you're not familiar with ARFF, it's basically that everything under the #data marker is in CSV.
For clarification, I am trying to use the dataset on Weka but the option to use Naïve Bayes is greyed out.
Every classifier, clusterer, filter etc in Weka can only handle certain types of data, i.e., its capabilities (which you can check in GUI). These capabilities are then compared against the data. In case of a mismatch, the GUI won't allow you to apply the algorithm.
Long story short: the dport attribute is of type string which NaiveBayes can't handle. You can convert that attribute into a nominal one using the StringToNominal filter.
i hope you all are doing well!
I have a project at data mining class.Τhe data consists of numerical data and many algorithms do not work.I have to do this:"you should compare the performance of the following categorization algorithms:
RandomForest, C4.5, JRip, Bayesian Network. Where necessary use them
Weka filters to replace or create values for some properties
new properties. For comparison, adopt the Train / Test Percentage Split type with
percentage for training data equal to 80%.Describe your observations by giving tables with the results and
presenting the performance of the algorithms. Repeat the experiment by putting
percentage for training data equal to 70% and 50% presenting the results."
So my first try was to transform the data inside weka with preprocessing data numeric to nominal but a friend of mine suggest that is statistical wrong.So my second try was to use excel to transform all data even the date to numeric,remove the first row(id) and pass it to the weka(I leave double quotes only at date)
.But i have the error that i mention on the title.The dataset is:https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Occupancy+Detection+
Thank you for the time.
If you define date-like data as a DATE attribute in the ARFF file (using the right format for parsing the strings), then WEKA will treat it as a numeric attribute internally (Java epoch, ie milli-seconds since 1970-01-01).
Instead of using NumericToNominal, use either the supervised or unsupervised Discretize filter if the algorithm cannot handle numeric attributes.
Converting nominal attributes to numeric ones is not a recommended approach. Instead, try the supervised or unsupervised NominalToBinary filter.
I am trying to find an example to assist me to cluster some textual data I have. The data is in the form:
A,B,3
C,D,5
A,D,57
The two first entries are the members of a pair, the number is how often this pair occurs in the dataset. I have over 200,000 unique pairs.
Any tips? Thanks!!
Don't use k-means on such data.
It will not work.
What you have is a similarity matrix, not continuous vectors as needed for k-means. You can try hierarchical clustering (with a sparse similarity, not a distance; no, I won't write the code for you).
I'm trying to do binary LSTM classification using theano.
I have gone through the example code however I want to build my own.
I have a small set of "Hello" & "Goodbye" recordings that I am using. I preprocess these by extracting the MFCC features for them and saving these features in a text file. I have 20 speech files(10 each) and I am generating a text file for each word, so 20 text files that contains the MFCC features. Each file is a 13x56 matrix.
My problem now is: How do I use this text file to train the LSTM?
I am relatively new to this. I have gone through some literature on it as well but not found really good understanding of the concept.
Any simpler way using LSTM's would also be welcome.
There are many existing implementation for example Tensorflow Implementation, Kaldi-focused implementation with all the scripts, it is better to check them first.
Theano is too low-level, you might try with keras instead, as described in tutorial. You can run tutorial "as is" to understand how things goes.
Then, you need to prepare a dataset. You need to turn your data into sequences of data frames and for every data frame in sequence you need to assign an output label.
Keras supports two types of RNNs - layers returning sequences and layers returning simple values. You can experiment with both, in code you just use return_sequences=True or return_sequences=False
To train with sequences you can assign dummy label for all frames except the last one where you can assign the label of the word you want to recognize. You need to place input and output labels to arrays. So it will be:
X = [[word1frame1, word1frame2, ..., word1framen],[word2frame1, word2frame2,...word2framen]]
Y = [[0,0,...,1], [0,0,....,2]]
In X every element is a vector of 13 floats. In Y every element is just a number - 0 for intermediate frames and word ID for final frame.
To train with just labels you need to place input and output labels to arrays and output array is simpler. So the data will be:
X = [[word1frame1, word1frame2, ..., word1framen],[word2frame1, word2frame2,...word2framen]]
Y = [[0,0,1], [0,1,0]]
Note that output is vectorized (np_utils.to_categorical) to turn it to vectors instead of just numbers.
Then you create network architecture. You can have 13 floats for input, a vector for output. In the middle you might have one fully connected layer followed by one lstm layer. Do not use too big layers, start with small ones.
Then you feed this dataset into model.fit and it trains you the model. You can estimate model quality on heldout set after training.
You will have a problem with convergence since you have just 20 examples. You need way more examples, preferably thousands to train LSTM, you will only be able to use very small models.
I'm using Weka and would like to perform regression with random forests. Specifically, I have a dataset:
Feature1,Feature2,...,FeatureN,Class
1.0,X,...,1.4,Good
1.2,Y,...,1.5,Good
1.2,F,...,1.6,Bad
1.1,R,...,1.5,Great
0.9,J,...,1.1,Horrible
0.5,K,...,1.5,Terrific
.
.
.
Rather than learning to predict the most likely class, I want to learn the probability distribution over the classes for a given feature vector. My intuition is that using just the RandomForest model in Weka would not be appropriate, since it would be attempting to minimize its absolute error (maximum likelihood) rather than its squared error (conditional probability distribution). Is that intuition right? Is there a better model to be using if I want to perform regression rather than classification?
Edit: I'm actually thinking now that in fact it may not be a problem. Presumably, classifiers are learning the conditional probability P(Class | Feature1,...,FeatureN) and the resulting classification is just finding the c in Class that maximizes that probability distribution. Therefore, a RandomForest classifier should be able to give me the conditional probability distribution. I just had to think about it some more. If that's wrong, please correct me.
If you want to predict the probabilities for each class explicitly, you need different input data. That is, you would need to replace the value to predict. Instead of one data set with the class label, you would need n data sets (for n different labels) with aggregated data for each unique feature vector. Your data would look something like
Feature1,...,Good
1.0,...,0.5
0.3,...,1.0
and
Feature1,...,Bad
1.0,...,0.8
0.3,...,0.1
and so on. You would need to learn one model for each class and run them separately on any data to be classified. That is, for each label you learn a model to predict a number that is the probability of being in that class, given a feature vector.
If you don't need the probabilities to be predicted explicitly, have a look at the Bayesian classifiers in Weka, which make use of probabilities in the models that they learn.