Reputation: 1976
I need to create association rules using apriori algorithm in Rapidminer, but I can't seem to make it work. I'm using the 5.3.1 weka extension.
I've already created the association rules using built-in FP-Growth and Create Associations operators, and it worked as expected. This is how the process looks like:
Because all my attributes are already of binomial type I could use the FP-Growth directly. But if i use the same approach for apriori (confidence=0.1, support=0.1):
As a result I'm not getting what I was looking for:
Minimum support: 0.1 (26 instances)
Minimum metric <confidence>: 0.1
Number of cycles performed: 18
(...)
Best rules found:
1. A=FALSE 53 ==> E=FALSE 26 conf:(0.49)
2. H=FALSE 74 ==> E=FALSE 30 conf:(0.41)
3. E=FALSE 75 ==> H=FALSE 30 conf:(0.4)
4. C=FALSE 68 ==> E=FALSE 27 conf:(0.4)
5. D=FALSE 67 ==> H=FALSE 26 conf:(0.39)
6. E=FALSE 75 ==> C=FALSE 27 conf:(0.36)
7. H=FALSE 74 ==> D=FALSE 26 conf:(0.35)
8. E=FALSE 75 ==> A=FALSE 26 conf:(0.35)
Upvotes: 3
Views: 4295
Reputation: 26
When you try to run the algorithm w - apriori
in RapidMiner, your data set on which you are making the process must not contain numeric attributes.
A solution would be as follows:
Add this operator to your process. After you load the data:
Data Transformation > Type Conversion > Numerical to Polynomial
On the operator, select
attribute type filter = single
name of your attribute
Here's a pictorial example of what I mean:
Upvotes: 1