MineSet^™ User's Guide

Table of Contents

About This Guide

Audience for This Guide

Structure of This Document

Typographical Conventions

1. Getting Started

MineSet Tools Suite

Basic Tool Execution Scenario

2. Setting Up MineSet

Configuring the DataMover Server

3. The Tool Manager

Overview of Tool Manager

Starting the Tool Manager

Connecting to a Server and Choosing a Data Source

Transforming the Data

Investigating the Data

Session Files

Pulldown Menus

Color Options for the MineSet Visualizers

4. Using the Tree Visualizer

Overview of Tree Visualizer

File Requirements

Starting the Tree Visualizer

Configuring the Tree Visualizer Using the Tool Manager

Working in the Tree Visualizer's Main Window

External Controls

Pulldown Menus

Null Handling in the Tree Visualizer

Sample Configuration and Data Files

5. Using the Map Visualizer

Overview of Map Visualizer

File Requirements

Starting the Map Visualizer

Configuring the Map Visualizer Using the Tool Manager

Working in the Map Visualizer's Main Window

External Main Window Controls

The Animation Control Panel

Pulldown Menus

Null Handling in the Map Visualizer

Sample Configuration and Data Files

6. Using the Scatter Visualizer

Overview of Scatter Visualizer

File Requirements

Starting the Scatter Visualizer

Configuring the Scatter Visualizer Using the Tool Manager

Working in the Scatter Visualizer's Main Window

External Controls

The Animation Control Panel

Pulldown Menus

Sample Configuration and Data Files

7. Using the Rules Visualizer

Overview of Rules Visualizer

File Requirements

Starting the Rules Visualizer

Configuring the Rules Visualizer Using the Tool Manager

Working in the Rules Visualizer's Main Window

External Controls

Pulldown Menus

Sample Files

8. MineSet Inducers and Classifiers

Classifiers

Inducers

Training Set

Accuracy Estimation

Inducer Modes in Tool Manager

Accuracy Options for Inducers

The Information and Statistics Popup Window

Special Options and Limitations

9. Inducing and Visualizing the Decision Tree Classifier

Overview

Inducing Decision Trees

File Requirements

Running the Decision Tree Inducer

Configuring the Decision Tree Inducer Using the Tool Manager

Working in the Tree Visualizer's Main Window

External Controls

Pulldown Menus

Sample Files

10. Inducing and Visualizing the Evidence Classifier

Overview

Inducing Evidence Classifiers

File Requirements

Running the Evidence Inducer

Starting the Evidence Visualizer

Configuring the Evidence Inducer Using the Tool Manager

Working in the Evidence Visualizer's Panes

External Controls

Pulldown Menus

Sample Files

11. Column Importance

Finding Important Columns

Column Importance Notes

Column Importance and Relation to Classifiers

A. Creating Data and Configuration Files for the Tree Visualizer

The Data File

The Configuration File

Keywords

Expressions

The Input Section

The Expression Section

The Hierarchy Section

The View Section

B. Creating Data, Configuration, Hierarchy, and GFX Files for the Map Visualizer

The Data File

The Configuration File

The Hierarchy File

The .gfx File

C. Creating Data and Configuration Files for the Scatter Visualizer

The Data File

The Configuration File

The Input Section

The Expressions Section

The View Section

D. Creating Data and Configuration Files for the Rules Visualizer

The Association Data Converter

Association Rules Generator

Rules Visualization

E. Command-Line Interface to MIndUtil: Classifiers, Discretization, Column Importance, and File Conversions

MIndUtil Invocation and Options

General Options

Induction Modes

Estimate Accuracy

Discretization

Column Importance and Auto Selection

MineSet-to-MLC, MLC-to-MineSet

Visualize

F. Format of the Evidence Visualizer's Data File

G. Nulls in MineSet

Semantics of Nulls

Representation of Nulls

Operations on Nulls

Aggregations in the Presence of Nulls

Sort Order for Nulls

Bins and Arrays With Nulls

H. Examples of Tool Usage

Starting Up MineSet

Map Visualizer Example Using the Netherlands' Birth Data

Scatter Visualizer Example Using Working Adults Data

Tree Visualizer Example Using Working Adults Data

Rules Visualizer Example Using Cars Data

Decision Tree Visualizer Example Using Mushroom Data

Evidence Visualizer Example Using Mushroom Data

I. Further Reading and Acknowledgments

Further reading

Acknowledgments

Index