12 Software and Tools: A Quick Guide
12.1 List of Requirements When Choosing a Data Mining Tool
There are several data mining and statistical software products that may help you to do data mining. To choose the tools that fit your needs, it is necessary to do a small requirements study. The following questions may help to discover your specific needs. We know that some questions are not relevant for your specific situation, but they may help you to rethink. Please also keep your normal requirements for software in mind.
Besides the content and technical aspects, the financial aspects differ a lot. There are some quite good free products on the one hand and some very good, more advanced solution packages for buying or to be licensed. As with other software issues, the type of machine on which the data mining software will run also has an impact on the price.
In general, we can separate the tools into three groups:
- Specialised tools for carrying out one algorithm or method, for example, to allow you just to do association ...
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