Rapid-I released a new version of the leading open-source data mining, ETL, and BI solution RapidMiner 4.3

We are happy to announce the release of RapidMiner 4.3. During the last months, we worked hard on improving RapidMiner to meet your data analysis, ETL, and BI requirements. The result is now available for download and provides more than 50 new operators and a lot of exciting new features:

• Improve your analysis and data transformations by upgraded data pivotings, new aggregation functions, or date and time handling
• Enjoy the simplified usage of function based attribute construction, optimized wizards, or the new visualizations including zooming and panning
• Create more powerful processes with enhanced macros or the new result storage mechanism
• Make use of the improved lift charts and optimize your marketing, your churn reduction efforts, your...

You will find detailed information about this release below. Or you can directly proceed to our download section.

More Features: Improved Pivoting Aggregation of Attributes Enhanced lift charts for the optimization of marketing or churn reduction efforts New Plotters: Pareto Chart, Multiple Series, and Multiple Scatter Most plotters do now support zooming and panning (press Ctrl while dragging) More data type conversions Full support of date types including dates in visualizations Extracting information from dates like quarter, week of year, or day of week Improved series analysis and forecasting Improved handling of nominal values including trimming or substring replacement More than 50 new operators!
Simplified Usage: Data loading from MS Access databases without database handling File chooser remembers the last chosen directory Simplified infix functions and constant values for attribute construction Wizards are now initialized with last settings New wizard for the cached database reading Plotters provide consistent and customizable colors for classes Improved the names of the features of (multi-)variate windowing Graphs and plotters show long column names as tool tip Viewers of large tables (like correlation) always show the first column Improved the parameter optimization / iteration dialog A dialog informs the users if unknown parameters exist during loading
More Speed: Re-development and improvement of all clustering methods KMeans is now faster by several order of magnitudes Feature selection and weighting use less memory More parallized operators for the RapidMiner Enterprise Edition including the Decision Tree Learner
More Power: Macros in numerical and list parameters More flexibility by result storage and retrieval Value iterator including the definition of the the current value Storage and retrieval of object at arbitrary places of the process Execution of SQL statements directly in the database New conditions for process branching Enhanced process logging now also possible from or to data or from macros Enhanced macro definition also from data
Less Bugs: Security check in installer prevented installation Better support for special characters in XML Logging no longer overwrites old log files right after loading Workspace selection now prevent the RapidMiner main directory and all subdirectories Bug in evolutionary parameter optimization in combination with logging Wizard for ExampleSource preventing the correct guess of value types Jittering bug in Histogram plots caused the bins to drop out DistributionModel is updatable now FeatureSubsetIteration did not use the specified maximum number of features Error in writing of PerformanceVector led to large data files and long runtimes And several more...

RapidMiner 4.3: Enterprise Edition

The new version of course is again available in different versions. Users can choose between the free Community Edition of RapidMiner and one of the Enterprise Editions which are more suitable for professional data analysts:

      Enterprise Edition = 
            Community Edition +
            More Features +
            Services +
            Guarantees

Of course, the RapidMiner Enterprise Edition benefits from all improvements stated above. In addition, the reporting engine was extended and provides now several new parameters for reporting as well as new parallized variants of analysis operators were also included. The new Decision Tree Learner, for example, is now able to learn the model 8 times faster than the usual version on a 8 core machine.

Smaller companies and inviduals can use the new RapidMiner Small Enterprise Edition which contains all additional functionality from the RapidMiner Enterprise Edition including the reporting engine and the support of multi-core systems which leads to drastic increases in analysis speed. The RapidMiner Standard Enterprise Edition additionally provides extended guarantees and services including the support for optimizing your analysis processes. Companies can get the full service level together with the extended features for an unlimited number of users with the RapidMiner Unlimited Enterprise Edition - for a price less than a single program license of other proprietary solutions. Check out the details at the Enterprise Edition feature page!

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