Big Data Stream Mining

Abstract

Massive Online Analysis (MOA) is a software environment for implementing algorithms and running experiments for online learning from evolving data streams.MOA includes a collection of offline and online methods as well as tools for evaluation. In particular, it implements boosting, bagging, and Hoeffding Trees, all with and without Naïve Bayes classifiers at the leaves. MOA is related to WEKA, the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis, which is an award-winning open-source workbench containing implementations of a wide range of batch machine learning methods. WEKA is also written in Java. The main benefits of Java are portability, where applications can be run on any platform with an appropriate Java virtual machine, and the strong and welldeveloped support libraries. Use of the language is widespread, and features such as the automatic garbage collection help to reduce programmer burden and error. This text explains the theoretical and practical foundations of the methods and streams available in MOA. The moa and the weka are both birds native to New Zealand. The weka is a cheeky bird of similar size to a chicken. The moa was a large ostrich-like bird, an order of magnitude larger than a weka, that was hunted to extinction.