Improving the Prediction Accuracy of Decision Tree Mining with Data Preprocessing

Abstract

A decision tree is an important classification technique in data mining classification. Decision trees have proved to be valuable tools for the classification, description, and generalization of data. J48 is a decision tree algorithm which is used to create classification model. J48 is an open source Java implementation of the C4.5 algorithm in the Weka data mining tool. In this paper, we present the method of improving accuracy for decision tree mining with data preprocessing. We applied the supervised filter discretization on J48 algorithm to construct a decision tree. We compared the results with the J48 without discretization. The results obtained from experiments show that accuracy of J48 after discretization is better than J48 before discretization.