Comparison between J48 Decision Tree, SVM and MLP in Weather Forecasting
Weather forecasting is a challenging task for the Government and the general public throughout the world. Literature survey shows that the soft computing techniques play better role in predicting the weather at a particular region than the traditional mathematical or statistical methods. Nowa days the data mining and soft computing techniques have attained the most position in research for predicting accurate weather. This paper depicts a comparison between the 3 different soft computing techniques like J48 Decision Tree, Support Vector machine and Multi Layer Perceptions (MLP) in weather forecasting. Time series data of Delhi is collected for 5 years and fed to the 3 models. After training to the 3 models, results were compared and it was concluded that the performance of J48 decision tree is consistently better. Keywords J48 Decision Tree, Support Vector Machine, Multi Layer Perceptron, Time Series Data, Weather Forecasting, WEKA (Waikato Experient and knowledge Analysis)