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The previous KDnuggets Poll asked: What Data mining/analytic tools you used in 2006?

Based on the responses from 561 voters, the most popular tools were

• CART/MARS/TreeNet/RF
• SPSS Clementine and SPSS
• Excel
• KXEN

KDnuggets 2006 poll on data mining/analytic tools used.

This poll always generates controversy, as vendors are much more energetic than others in getting extra votes. To help reduce bias in the results, the obviously duplicate votes were removed from the poll results. In addition, the results also show how many voters selected a particular choice alone. For example, out of 100 people who reported using Excel, only 3 chose Excel alone without any other tools.

While recognizing that this poll is unscientific, we hope that the results are nevertheless illuminating.

Comparing to 2005 poll on data mining/analytic tools used, we see that the biggest increases are for

• KXEN 1186%
• Megaputer 433%
• Angoss 167%
• MATLAB 156%
• CART/MARS/TreeNet/RF 130%
• R 112%
• Weka 107%
• Oracle Data Mining 100%

• Insightful Miner/ S-Plus -38%
• IBM I-miner -40%
• Statsoft Statistica -57%
• Mineset -69%
• Xelopes -75%