In this Book
- Machine Learning for Data Streams: with Practical Examples in MOA
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: The MIT Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
A hands-on approach to tasks and techniques in data stream mining and real-time analytics, with examples in MOA, a popular freely available open-source software framework.
Today many information sources—including sensor networks, financial markets, social networks, and healthcare monitoring—are so-called data streams, arriving sequentially and at high speed. Analysis must take place in real time, with partial data and without the capacity to store the entire data set. This book presents algorithms and techniques used in data stream mining and real-time analytics. Taking a hands-on approach, the book demonstrates the techniques using MOA (Massive Online Analysis), a popular, freely available open-source software framework, allowing readers to try out the techniques after reading the explanations.
The book first offers a brief introduction to the topic, covering big data mining, basic methodologies for mining data streams, and a simple example of MOA. More detailed discussions follow, with chapters on sketching techniques, change, classification, ensemble methods, regression, clustering, and frequent pattern mining. Most of these chapters include exercises, an MOA-based lab session, or both. Finally, the book discusses the MOA software, covering the MOA graphical user interface, the command line, use of its API, and the development of new methods within MOA. The book will be an essential reference for readers who want to use data stream mining as a tool, researchers in innovation or data stream mining, and programmers who want to create new algorithms for MOA.
Table of Contents

- Table of Contents
- pp. v-xi
- List of Figures
- pp. xiii-xv
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 13-20
- 2. Big Data Stream Mining
- pp. 21-29
- 3. Hands-on Introduction to MOA
- pp. 31-41
- 4. Streams and Sketches
- pp. 45-75
- 5. Dealing with Change
- pp. 77-93
- 6. Classification
- pp. 95-137
- 7. Ensemble Methods
- pp. 139-151
- 8. Regression
- pp. 153-158
- 9. Clustering
- pp. 159-173
- 10. Frequent Pattern Mining
- pp. 175-193
- 11. Introduction to MOA and Its Ecosystem
- pp. 197-210
- 12. The Graphical User Interface
- pp. 211-225
- 13. Using the Command Line
- pp. 227-230
- 14. Using the API
- pp. 231-236
- 15. Developing New Methods in MOA
- pp. 237-248
- Bibliography
- pp. 249-265
- Series List
- pp. 273-274