To get the most out of this book

This book assumes that the user has a working knowledge of the Java language and a basic idea about machine learning. This book heavily uses external libraries that are available in JAR format. It is assumed that the user is aware of using JAR files in Terminal or Command Prompt, although the book does also explain how to do this. The user may easily use this book with any generic Windows or Linux system.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Unzip the archive and locate weka.jar within the extracted archive."

A block of code is set as follows:

data.defineSingleOutputOthersInput(outputColumn); 

EncogModel model = new EncogModel(data); 
model.selectMethod(data, MLMethodFactory.TYPE_FEEDFORWARD);
model.setReport(new ConsoleStatusReportable()); 
data.normalize(); 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ java -cp moa.jar -javaagent:sizeofag.jar moa.gui.GUI

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text as bold. Here is an example: "We can convert it to a Comma Separated Value (CSV) format by clicking File | Save As and picking CSV in the saving dialog."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.