Monday, March 10, 2008

Making your own arff file( Weka Data Mining)

sample:
%Comments
%
%

@RELATION name
%@relation


%@attribute

@ATTRIBUTE AAA NUMERIC
@ATTRIBUTE "BBB" REAL
@ATTRIBUTE CCC NUMERIC
@ATTRIBUTE DDD NUMERIC
@ATTRIBUTE class { type1, type2, type3 }


@DATA
2, 3.20, 4, 5, type1
1, 2.13, 3, 4, type3

you need to make sure that
  • nothing is case sensitive
  • the header section is prefaced by @RELATION
  • each attribute is indicated by @ATTRIBUTE, attribute's name should be one word
  • the data section is prefaced by @DATA
  • the data is comma separated or use spaces, with the class as the last attribute
  • everything should be separated spaces except, no tab is allowed. Or you will get a error when you import the arff file
  • lines that begin with a% are comments.