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.

Table 5.1 Data mining software by popularity (rdstats.com)

Rank

1

R

Open source

2

SAS

Commercial

3

SPSS

Commercial

4

WEKA

Open source

5

Statistica

Commercial

5

Rapid Miner

Commercial

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