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RapidMiner 5 Release Candidate (RC) released |
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RapidMiner 5 Release Candidate (RC) released.
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Rapid-I presents the new version of the world-wide most often used open source data mining solution RapidMiner. Among the new features of RapidMiner 5 are a new user interface, the new repositories, a completely new way of meta data transformation, and the quick fixes, which simplify the design of complex analysis processes a lot.
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Quick Tour: RapidMiner 5 in 3 Minutes!
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First Stable RapidMiner 5 Release together with new Reporting and Parallel Processing Extensions
Since the release of RapidMiner 5 Beta several weeks ago, a lot of work was done in order to optimize the RapidMiner experience and fix bugs which became obvious in the beta version. This release candidate is the first stable version of RapidMiner 5 and we recommend to use RapidMiner 5 from now on for your analysis projcts.
Beside RapidMiner we also released all RapidMiner extensions, namely:
- Text Processing
- Weka
- Reporting
- Parallel Processing
Did you notice? The extensions for reporting and parallel process execution are now also available for all users of the freely available community edition. All extensions can now easily be accessed by the new update and installation service available from the "Help" menu.
Data and Process Managementy by Repositories
The management of your data and processes is very easy with RapidMiner 5. Rapid-I wants to ease the first steps into data mining especially for less experienced data analysts.
The graphical user interface of RapidMiner 5 was completely revised: processes are now presented in a flow design.
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The new repositories structure your data mining projects and serve as the major source of the data to be analyzed. A simple drag and drop of data into one of your repositories automatically starts a matching input wizard and allows data integration within a few mouse clicks only. Additionally to your data, also describing meta data is stored within the repositories. You can access this meta data during process design and it will be transformed in the new flow design of RapidMiner 5. This allows the recognition of possible errors in analysis design as early as possible.
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Flow Design Simplifies Process Creation
RapidMiner 5 provides a new flow design additional to the tradition operator tree known from previous versions. The flow design of RapidMiner 5 makes this data flow explicit: operators have input ports and output ports which can be connected to each other in an arbitrary fashion. The new flow layout significantly eases process design, inserting operators at the beginning will not mess up the objects at later stages. At every stage it is perfectly clear which object ends up where.
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The meta data from the repositories are automatically transformed in the new flow design of RapidMiner 5. The meta data transformation allows to describe the expected results already during design time. Moreover, the meta data transformation of RapidMiner 5 guarantees exceptionally efficient work flows. Connections in the new flow design, for example, are automatically created as far as possible. The results of a process can also be stored in repositories and be easily re-used in other processes.
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The new repositories structure your data mining projects and provide the data together with describing meta data.
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Meta Data Transformation and Quick Fixes
The new result overview offers a quick summary, in RapidMiner 5 several results can be inspected simultaneously.
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Repositories, flow design and meta data transformation are the core components of the new RapidMiner 5. The continuous verification of the analysis process already during design time supports less experienced data analysts and offers experienced analysts hints for the optimization of their processes. If RapidMiner 5 detects a problem in process design, the problem is not only described but the user can choose among possible solutions presented as quick fixes. An error in process design is hence resolved within a few clicks.
The visualization of analysis results was further optimized as well. For the first time, several results can be simultaneously inspected in RapidMiner 5. Furthermore, the new result overview offers a quick summary of the results achieved so far.
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