Orange, R, RapidMiner, and WEKA are open source data mining and machine learning tools. Orange has an elegant scripting interface and can be run in GUI or ETL mode. R has elegant scripting integrated with extensive statistical libraries. RapidMiner has many features and good connectivity. WEKA has the easiest GUI but more limited connectivity than the other tools. The document compares the tools on factors such as supported data formats, user interfaces, connectivity, and provides examples of companies using the different tools.
2. • Open source
• Data visualization and analysis
• Novice and experts
• Through Python scripting
• Available for all popular platforms, including
Windows, Mac OS X and variants of Linux.
• Founded on 1996
• Orange is distributed free under the GPL.
• M&D at the Bioinformatics Laboratory of the
Faculty of Computer and Information
Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language.
GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license
3. Features
• Visual Programming
• Visualization
• Interaction and Data Analytics
• Large Toolbox
• Scripting Interface
• Extendable
• Documentation
• Open Source
• Platform Independence
Success Stories
• Astra-Zeneca, a pharmaceutical giant, which uses
Orange in drug development and sponsors the
development of several related parts of Orange
• At Jožef Stefan Institute, the visual programming
interface has been upgraded in Orange4WS to
support service-oriented architectures
5. • Latest R-language engine for statistical computing
• Open source, R- Enterprise, R-Cloud(Paid version )
• Data visualization and analysis up to 16 TB
• Extended capabilities with reproducible R tool Kits
• Windows , Mac OS and variants of Linux.
• Founded on 1993 in New Zealand
• Robert and Rossa pioneer in R language
development .
• R has General Public Licence.
• Many Big MNC companies are using R software.
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6. Useful Functions • Graphics Visualization
• Spatial Data Analysis
• Clustering
• Text Mining
• Social Network Analysis and Graph mining
• Statistics
• Data Manipulation
Success Stories
• Bank of America
• Bing
• Facebook
• Ford
• Google
8. • Open source
• a collection of machine learning algorithms
• Data visualization and analysis
• Java based platform
• Most researchers and practitioners
• Founded on 1997
• University of Waikato
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Public License is the most widely used free software license
9. Features • General public license
• GUI for interacting
• Explorer is the main user interface of WEKA
• primitive tasks including data pre-processing,
classification, regression, clustering, association rules
and visualization
• Execute data files in multiple format
• One exceptional feature of WEKA is the database
connection using JDBC with any RDBMS package
• The Weka mailing list has over 1100
subscribers in 50 countries, including
subscribers from many major companies
such as Rechtsportal
Success Stories
11. • Open source.
• Data visualization and analysis
• Machine Learning
• Data Mining, Text Mining.
• Business Intelligence.
• Works on java runtime.
• Available on all major operating systems and
platforms
• Started as YALE in 2001 by Ralf Klinkenberg, Ingo
Mierswa, and Simon Fische
• In 2006 it was renamed by Rapidminer since
developed by Rapid-1 founded by Ralf
Klinkenberg, Ingo Mierswa
• Licensed by AGPL.
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12. Features • A visual - code-free - environment, so no programming needed
• Design of analysis processes
• Predictive analytics (with pre-made templates)
• Data loading
• Data transformation
• Data Modelling
• Data visualization (with lots of visualizations)
• Allows you to work with different types and sizes of data sources
• Platform Independence.
• Acts as a powerful scripting language engine along with a
graphical user
• Modular operator concept.
• CISCO
• PAYPAL
• EBAY
• MIELE
• VOLKSWAGEN
Success Stories
14. COMPARISON OF ALL TOOLS
WEKA RAPIDMINER R-
PROGRAMMING
ORANGE
FORMATS
SUPPORTED
ONLY 4 FILE
FORMATS ARE
SUPPORTED
SUPPORTS
MORE FILE
FORMATS
(Approx 22)
SUPPORTS MORE
FILE FORMATS
SUPPORTS
MORE FILE
FORMATS
USER
INTERFACE
EASY USER
INTERFACE
DIFFICULT USER
INTERFACE
SIMPLE IN UNIX
OS,DIFFICULT IN
WINDOWS AND
MAC
EASY
CONNECTIVITY WORSE
CONNECTIVITY
WITH EXCEL
AND NON JAVA
DATABASES
EASILY
CONNECTED
WITH EXCEL
EASY
CONNECTIVITY
WITH EXCEL AND
OTHER
DATABASES
BETTER
THAN WEKA
15. Orange has elegant and concise scripting and can also be run in an ETL
GUI mode.
R has elegant and concise scripting integrated with a vast statistical
library.
RapidMiner has a lot of functionality, is polished and has good
connectivity.
WEKA is the easiest GUI to learn and use.
contains a GUI for interacting with data files and producing visual results
Explorer has several panels providing access to the main components of the workbench: the Preprocess panel has facilities for importing data from a database, a CSV file, etc, and to preprocess this data using a filtering algorithm. Such filters can be used to transform the data and make it possible to delete instances and attributes as per specific criteria.
The Classify panel provides the features to apply classification and regression algorithms to the dataset, to estimate the accuracy of the resulting predictive model and visualise erroneous predictions, ROC curves or the model. The Associate panel provides the access for association rule learning to identify the interrelationships between attributes in the data. The Cluster panel or module provides access to the clustering techniques, including simple k-means algorithm and many others. The Select attributes panel provides access to the algorithms for the identification of the most predictive attributes in a dataset. The Visualize panel depicts a scatter plot matrix in which individual scatter plots can be selected, enlarged and analysed using various selection operators.