Orange (was: [Spambayes] Non-email use of the spambayes project)

[Sandy Norton]

Tim Churches wrote in message:

> The Orange project, developed at the University of Ljubljana, is well
> worth a look. It is a Python framework and collection of modules (many
> of them C extension modules) for learning about data mining and machine
> learning techniques. It includes facilities for a number of supervised
> and non-supervised classification methods apart from the naive Bayes
> classifier, such as (quoting the Orange Web site) "classification trees,
> k-NN, majority classifier, support vector machines, logistic regression.
> Ensemble methods like boosting and bagging are also included ."

The orange machine learning framework is very python-centric and lots
of fun. Just fyi if you don't mind writing jython code to tap into
java libraries you might also look into the open source Weka machine
learning libs. [http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/]

Sandy