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RapidMiner
RapidMiner is one of the most popular DM software applications. It provides soft-
ware, solutions, and services in the elds of predictive analytics, DM, and text
mining. According to KDnuggets.com, it is the leading open-source system for
KDDM. It is used for business, industrial, and research applications, and supports
the steps in the KDDM process. According to its website, RapidMiner runs on
every major platform and operating system, and has a powerful and intuitive GUI
Figure 10.5 KNIME workbench with a small example workow. (Data from
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