Prediction of Blood Donors Population Using Data Mining Classification Technique

Abstract

Data mining is a technique that finds relationships and trends in large datasets to promote decision support. Classification is a data mining technique that maps data into predefined classes often referred as supervised learning because classes are determined before examining data. Different classification algorithms have been proposed for the effective classification of data. Among others, Weka is an open-source data mining software with which classification can be achieved. It is also well suited for developing new machine learning schemes. It allows users to quickly compare different machine learning methods on new datasets. It has several graphical user interfaces that enable easy access to the underlying functionality. CBA is a data mining tool which not only produces an accurate classifier for prediction, but it is also able to mine various forms of association rules. It has better classification accuracy and faster mining speed. It can build accurate classifiers from relational data and mine association rules from relational data and transactional data. CBA also has many other features like cross validation for evaluating classifiers and allows the user to view and to query the discovered rules.