Category: Projects + Papers

Introduction This document presents the results from my Topics in Machine Learning final project at Brown University, written in December 1996. The project was a “bakeoff” for machine learning algorithms that learned classification problems (categories instead of continuous functions). I discuss my implementation and results for Nearest-Neighbor and k-Nearest-Neighbor, two well-known machine learning algorithms, on three classification datasets. In addition, I […]

Wine Recognition Data from Forina, M. et al at the Institute of Pharmaceutical and Food Analysis and Technologies. Each record represents results of a chemical analysis of wines grown in the same region in Italy but derived from three different cultivars. The analysis determined the quantities of 13 constituents found in each of the three types […]

BUPA Liver Disorders from Richard S. Forsyth at BUPA Medical Research Ltd. Each record in the dataset constitutes the record of a single male individual. The six attributes in each record are results from blood tests which are thought to be sensitive to liver disorders that might arise from excessive alcohol consumption, as well as the […]

Wisconsin Breast Cancer from Dr. William H. Wolberg at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison. Records in the dataset represent the results of breast cytology tests and a diagnosis of benign or malignant. Attributes include clump thickness, uniformity of cell size, uniformity of cell shape, marginal adhesion, single epithelial cell size, bare nuclei, bland chromatin, normal […]

Brief information from the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository: Donated by Stefan Aeberhard Using chemical analysis determine the origin of wines 13 attributes (all continuous), 3 classes, no missing values 178 instances Ftp Access 1. Title of Database: Wine recognition data 2. Sources: (a) Forina, M. et al, PARVUS – An Extendible Package for Data Exploration, […]

Brief information from the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository: BUPA Medical Research Ltd. database donated by Richard S. Forsyth 7 numeric-valued attributes 345 instances (male patients) Includes cost data (donated by Peter Turney) Ftp Access 1. Title: BUPA liver disorders 2. Source information: — Creators: BUPA Medical Research Ltd. — Donor: Richard S. Forsyth 8 Grosvenor […]

Brief information from the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository: Donated by Olvi Mangasarian Located in breast-cancer-wisconsin sub-directory, filenames root: breast-cancer-wisconsin Currently contains 699 instances 2 classes (malignant and benign) 9 integer-valued attributes Ftp Access Citation Request: This breast cancer databases was obtained from the University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison from Dr. William H. Wolberg. If you […]