Data Mining

Data mining clustering methods are usually used for exploratory purposes and to gain insights into data. The most commonly used methods include k-Means, agglomerative hierarchical clustering and increasingly self organizing maps. The tools listed below support a wide variety of methods, some of which are particular to a given toolset. Toolkits…

Understanding Data Mining and Business Intelligence To get started with this we need to define these two terms. Data mining is the act of trawling through historical data with the aim of finding patterns that might be useful in the future. Business intelligence is concerned with looking at historical and current…

What is Data Mining? Data mining is the act of trawling through historical data looking for patterns that might have a future use. Imagine a database of customers and their orders. We can mine this data for useful patterns – maybe people who purchased one product tend to purchase another…

Guide to Predictive Analytics The goal of predictive analytics software is to create predictive models which can predict the outcome of future events, with an accuracy that is greater than is currently possible. This is achieved by trawling through historical data, looking for patterns that might be useful predictors of…

We analyse data because we need to answer questions. What did sales look like last month? Why was production low in a particular unit? How has the customer base responded to the latest promotion? The questions are endless, and so is the need for business analytics technologies and methods. Fortunately…

Free Data Mining Linux Tools 2015 Data.Mining.Fox (DMF) from easydatamining is a free data mining tool that hides much of the background complexity. The interface takes users through several well defined steps from data import through to predictions based on new data. The Databionic ESOM Tools is a suite of…

Summary: Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS) provides a productive data-to-production analytics workbench. Many of the time consuming steps that slow down analytic model production have been automated and streamlined, enabling skilled business analysts and data scientists to quickly prepare and understand data, build a model, and quickly integrate it into…

Data Mining Fox Data.Mining.Fox (DMF) from easydatamining is a free data mining tool that hides much of the background complexity. The interface takes users through several well defined steps from data import through to predictions based on new data. KNIME Knime is a widely used open source data mining, visualisation…

Positioning: RapidMiner is one of the most widely used analytics platforms in the world, with over 250,000 users. Organizations of all sizes use RapidMiner, and its range of application is very broad. The fact that many predictive models can be built without resorting to program code is one reason for…