The paper presented at ECML-PKDD 2013 titled “Pitfalls in benchmarking data stream classification and how to avoid them“, showed that classifying data streams has an important temporal component, which we are currently not considering in the evaluation of data-stream classifiers. A very simple classifier that considers this temporal component, the non-change classifier that predicts only using the last class seen by the classifier, can outperform current state-of-the-art classifiers in some real-world datasets. MOA can now evaluate data streams considering this temporal component using:

• NoChange classifier
• TemporallyAugmentedClassifier classifier
• new evaluation measure Kappa+ or Kappa Temp

which provides a more accurate gauge of classifier performance.