RapidMiner (YALE) among Top 3 Data Mining Tools and No. 1 Open-Source Data Mining Tool
According to a poll performed by the leading internet portal for knowledge discovery and data mining,
KDnuggets, RapidMiner (formerly YALE) is among the
Top 3 Data Mining Tools in 2007 and the
No. 1 Open-Source Solution.
From May 5-20th, 2007, KDnuggets performed a poll among more than 500 data mining experts and practitioners
about which data mining and analytic tools they used in 2007.
103 of the 534 voters selected YALE (RapidMiner) as data mining tool (19.3%) making RapidMiner / YALE the
third most widely used data mining tool overall and the most widely used open-source data mining software.
According to the poll, the most widely used data mining tool overall was SPSS/Clementine with
116 votes (21.7%).
Considering the fact, that this is only a small lead and that SPSS/Clementine has been around
for many more years than RapidMiner / YALE, this is yet another indicator of the rapid growth of the
RapidMiner / YALE user base.
The total number of tools was 30, among them all well known commercial and open-source data mining solutions.
KDnuggets.com is the leading web portal for information on data mining and knowledge discovery
and KDnuggets News has been widely recognized as the leading newsletter on data mining and
knowledge discovery reaching more than 10,000 professionals (subscribers) twice a month.
About RapidMiner / YALE
RapidMiner / YALE is the wold-wide leading and most comprehensive open-source data mining
solution. It is widely used from a large number of organizations covering a wide range of different branches.
Today, thousands of applications of RapidMiner / YALE in more than 30 countries give their users a competitive
edge.
