PERFORMANCE TUNING OF J48 ALGORITHM FOR PREDICTION OF SOIL FERTILITY

Abstract

Data mining involves the systematic analysis of large data sets, and data mining in agricultural soil datasets is exciting and modern research area. The productive capacity of a soil depends on soil fertility. Achieving and maintaining appropriate levels of soil fertility, is of utmost importance if agricultural land is to remain capable of nourishing crop production . In this research, Steps for building a predictive model of soil fertility have been explained. This paper aims at predicting soil fertility class using decision tree algorithms in data mining . Further, it focuses on performance tuning of J48 decision tree algorithm with the help of meta-techniques such as attribute selection and boosting.