Free Online Course: Data Mining with Weka by University of Waikato

Total reward

0 $

Area

Online

Host Country

Worldwide

Deadline

On going

Study level

Vocational Education

Opportunity type

Miscellaneous

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

This opportunity is destined for all countries

Eligible Region

All Regions

The course is free. However, there is an option to upgrade the course which would include the a certificate and some extra capabilities.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate use of Weka for key data mining tasks.
- Explain how data miners can unwittingly overestimate the performance of their system.
- Apply many different learning methods to a dataset of your choice.
- Describe the principles behind many modern machine learning methods.
- Debate ethical issues raised by mining personal data.
- Evaluate the performance of a classifier on new, unseen, instances.
- Identify learning methods that are based on different flavors of simplicity.
- Interpret the output produced by classification methods.
- Compare the decision boundaries produced by different classification algorithms.