Tool

Description

RapidMiner [78]

Rapid Miner is an open source (GPL licence) data science platform to prepare data and create models.

It includes many machine-learning algorithms and provides best practices and standards with collaborative building blocks as well as templates and processes.

Following the magic quadrant for advanced analytics platforms of Gartner in 2016 [79] , Rapid Miner is one of the leader of

platforms in advanced analytics.

KNIME [80]

KNIME is an open source platform (GPL licence) and offers a graphical environment where the user is capable of modelling

workflows consisting of nodes (that act on the data), linked through connections (which transport node’s results).

Following the magic quadrant for advanced analytics platforms of Gartner in 2016 [79] , KNIME is also one of leaders in advanced analytics platforms.

Orange [81]

Orange is an open source (GPL licence) machine learning and data mining software that offers interactive workflows, data

visualisation mechanisms and a large toolbox for analysing the data.

WEKA [82]

WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) is an open source (GPL licence) tool that provides a collection of both, data pre-processing tools, and machine learning algorithms for users to compare different learning methods in new data sets in a

relatively quick way.

R [83]

R is a programming language and a free (GPL licence) software environment for statistical computing and graphics that provide statistical and graphical techniques.

Rattle GUI [84]

Rattle GUI is an open source (GPL licence) software package that offers a GUI for data mining, using the R language for processing. Creators plan to create also an Android version of this software package.