1. Rapid Miner Session CIS 787 Data Mining,EECS, SU12016-3-16 Three steps for use  Assign the dataset file first  Assign the analysis type you want  Execute your analysis by RM, change the type if needed. Sample Datasets  You can use the ARFF format datasets provide in course website.  Or, Proben Datasets from UCI, you need to change the data format to ARFF before use. Can be found in our website also.

2. Step 1 CIS 787 Data Mining,EECS, SU22016-3-16  Download and Install Rapid Miner http://rapid-i.com/content/view/130/82/  Create a Rapid Miner Project ( click “new” icon )

3. Step 1 CIS 787 Data Mining,EECS, SU32016-3-16  Set a data source for project, usually is a data file( arff format or excel spread format), we use arff file as example Setting data source

4. Step1 CIS 787 Data Mining,EECS, SU42016-3-16  Assign the data file to data source Setting data source(cont)

5. Step2 CIS 787 Data Mining,EECS, SU52016-3-16  Choose one of the data mining analysis type for project, such as clustering, classification, decision tree, etc.  For example, we choose the clustering. Right click the “Root” menu of left side to select the “simpleKMean” method to do the clustering as below: Select analysis type

6. Step2 CIS 787 Data Mining,EECS, SU62016-3-16  Decide the detail parameters for clustering. Decide Parameters

7. Step3 CIS 787 Data Mining,EECS, SU72016-3-16  Execute. click the “ ” button in top side to run the clustering. Execute

8. Step3 CIS 787 Data Mining,EECS, SU82016-3-16  Check results from output panel. There are many different output panels if you choose different analysis function. Check results