CHAPTER 5

Data Mining Software

There are many excellent commercial data mining software products, although these tend to be expensive. These include SAS Enterprise Miner and IBM’s Intelligent Miner, as well as many more recent variants and new products appearing regularly. One source of information is www.kdnuggets.com under “software.” Some of these are free. The most popular software by rdstats.com/articles/popularity by product are shown in Table 5.1.

Rattle is a graphical user interface (GUI) system for R (also open source), and is also highly recommended. WEKA is a great system, but we have found issues with reading test data, making it a bit troublesome. Down the list in 11th place is KNIME, a very easy-to-use open source GUI system that ...

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