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by Sagar Jauhari, from dataminingtools.net, Dec 31, 2009
This new year, let us go through all the major developments that have taken place in the Data Mining industry over the years. Here is a quick glimpse:
(survey of major developments from Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Yahoo).
1993 Development of WEKA begins:
- In 1993, the University of Waikato in New Zealand started development of the original version of Weka. Weka (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) is a popular suite of machine learning software written in Java, developed at the University of Waikato. WEKA is free software available under the GNU General Public License.
2009 PASW/ SPSS
- PASW (formerly SPSS) is a computer program used for statistical analysis. Before 2009 it was called SPSS, but in 2009 it was re-branded as PASW (Predictive Analytics Software). The company announced July 28, 2009 that it was being acquired by IBM for US$1.2 billion.