For anyone looking to compare characteristics, pros and cons of the six most commonly used data mining free software tools, please refer to a great expert paper titled "
An overview of free software tools for general data mining" by A. Jović, K. Brkićand N. Bogunović, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb / Department of Electronics, Microelectronics,Computer and Intelligent Systems, Zagreb, Croatia. The six tools extensively covered in the paper are as following-
- RapidMiner
- R
- Weka
- KNIME
- Orange
- scikit-learn
The paper contains a comparison of the implemented algorithms covering all areas of data mining, such as,
- classification
- regression
- clustering
- associative rules
- feature selection
- evaluation criteria
- visualization
Also covered in the paper are advanced and specialized research topics, such as,
- big data
- data streams
- text mining
In short it is a treasure trove of generally great information for either a novice or an expert who might just be wondering if he or she choose the right tool.
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