KDnuggets : Polls : 2000 : Next Data Mining Tool (June 2000)

Poll
Which tool do you plan to try or buy next? [242 votes total, sorted by frequency]

Clementine (32) 13%
Megaputer (32) 13%
SAS EM (31) 13%
GainSmarts (28) 12%
EasyMiner (15) 6%
SAS (13) 5%
Angoss (11) 5%
Oracle Darwin (11) 5%
IBM Iminer (10) 4%
Business Objects/Alice (8) 3%
SGI Mineset (8) 3%
SPSS / AnswerTree (6) 2%
CART (5) 2%
Model 1 (4) 2%
MARS (3) 1%
Quadstone (3) 1%
STATISTICA (3) 1%
Wizsoft (2) 1%
WhiteCross (0) 0%
Xaffinity (0) 0%
Other (17) 7%

Informative Comments

  • Other = DDSeries from Data Distilleries
  • Clementine is a "maza" (Scottish term for "amazing" Ed.)
  • GainSmarts has a extremely useful feature selection module to sift through large quantaties of data. The system is ideal for large number of variables
  • SGI MineSet has the best interface.
  • You should add S-Plus to your list. It does most of what you expect a dataminining tool to do (CART, clustering, very good graphics) ,and a library (not supported by the vendors) does neural network analysis.
  • Other: Delta Miner by Bissantz
  • SAS - user friendly, that's what it's all about.
  • We have SAS EM , but we have evaluating other tools. Because SAS EM is very expensive and we have some troubles of this soft.
  • We evaluated a small number of the better data mining products in 1998 and found GainSmarts produced better models. I have reviewed GainSmarts subsequently in "DM Review" magazine. See www.urbanscience.com to read the review - Cheers, Adam
  • PlainSpeak, a natural language interface

KDnuggets : Polls : 2000 : Next Data Mining Tool

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