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In the context of the person represented on Row 11, it seems pretty obvious that Sonia should try
to reach out to this gentleman right away, offering help in every aspect. She may want to help him
find a weight loss support group, such as Overeaters Anonymous, provide information about
dealing with divorce and/or stress, and encourage the person to work with his doctor to better
regulate his cholesterol through diet and perhaps medication as well. There may be a number of
the 690 individuals who fairly clearly need specific help. Click twice on the attribute name
confidence(Yes). Clicking on a column heading (the attribute name) in RapidMiner esults
perspective will sort the data set by that attribute. Click it once to sort in ascending order, twice to
re-sort in descending order, and a third time to return the data set to its original state. Figure 9-11
shows our results sorted in descending order on the confidence(Yes) attribute.
Figure 9-11. Results sorted by confidence(Yes) in descending order (two clicks on the attribute
name).
If you were to count down from the first record (Row 667) to the point at which our
confidence(Yes) value is 0.950, you would find that there are 140 individuals in the data set for
whom we have a 95% or better confidence that they are at risk for heart attack recurrence (and
that's not rounding up those who have a 0.949 in the 'Yes' column). So there are some who are
