The GUI is written in Java and requires java 1.4 or higher installed.
The YaDT GUI actually does not implement any decision tree or binary/XML feature. It simply translates user clicks to calls to the dTcmd command line interpreter.
The current version of the YaDT GUI is intended only as a demonstration of the features of the YaDT classes. Not all features, however, have a GUI counterpart. For instance, the dTcmd command line interpreters offers options for applying a decision tree to a scoring set, i.e. to predict the class of cases with unknown class.
The YaDT GUI allows to load/save trees in binary format and to save trees as an XML document. Also, the YaDT GUI provides a wizard for building decision trees. The wizard accepts the following options.
Input options in building decision trees
Input data to dTcmd consists of text files:
Tree construction parameters
The following parameters affect the tree construction algorithm: