You are required to work with one other person on this assignment. Please submit just one solution with both of your names on it.
Go to the Weka site, click on the download link, and then download and install the book version of weka-3-4-10.exe onto your desktop or laptop computer. On my Windows laptop, the Weka software was installed in this default directory: C:\Program Files\Weka-3-4.
In the Weka directory, you will find a Weka 3.4 shortcut to run Weka. When Weka first starts up, select Explorer. To get a feel for Weka's capability, press the Open file button and browse to data/weather. Once the file is selected, choose the Classify tab and then press the Start button. This has the effect of learning the data with the ZeroR method using 10-fold cross validation. The results of the learning are displayed in the Classifier output area.
To learn more about the Weka Explorer, read the ExplorerGuide.pdf file that appears in the C:\Program Files\Weka-3-4 directory. You might also want to learn more about Weka by looking at materials available on the website and/or looking at other materials that appear in the C:\Program Files\Weka-3-4 directory.
No later than Friday, April 20th, e-mail John the topic that you plan to investigate and a description of how you plan to go about conducting the investigation. Be very specific.
Investigate the isolet database again, this time from a machine learning standpoint. Use the isolet1+2+3+4.data.Z file as the training data and the isolet5.data file as the test data. You will need to convert the data files so that they are compatible to be used with Weka.
Conduct an interesting machine learning investigation of the isolet database using one or more of the machine learning techniques that are available in Weka and that are related to machine learning techniques that we covered during the machine learning section of this course.
No later than Friday, May 11th, e-mail John your writeup as either a .pdf or .doc file. The writeup should use a 12 point font and single spacing. There is no required length of the paper - make it as long as it needs to be, but no longer. In general, I expect that each pair of people will collectively spend somewhere around 50 hours on this project.
The writeup will be graded based on its correct and clear usage of English (10%), its ability to clearly describe the experiment that was performed so that the experiment can be recreated by another person (10%), its ability to clearly show the results of the experiment through text and graphs (10%), its ability to clearly interpret the results (20%) and the challengingness and significance of the experiment (50%).