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13.3 Advanced Setup 511 file in the Weka distribution. If you alter an experiment that uses a database, Weka will reuse previously computed results whenever they are available. This greatly simplifies the kind of iterative experimentation that typically characterizes data mining research. 13.3 ADVANCEDSETUP The Experimenter has an advanced mode. Click near the top of the panel shown in Figure 13.1(a) to obtain the more formidable version of the panel shown in Figure 13.3. This enlarges the options available for controlling the experiment, including, for example, the ability to generate learning curves. However, the advanced mode is hard to use, and the simple version suffices for most purposes. For example, in the advanced mode you can set up an iteration to test an algorithm with a succession of different parameter values, but the same effect can be achieved in simple mode by putting the algorithm into the list several times with different parameter values. One thing you can do in advanced mode but not in simple mode is run experi- ments using clustering algorithms. Here, experiments are limited to those clusterers