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DM Direct Special Report, March 28, 2006, By Robert A. Nisbet

The next tool in order of overall usefulness (Link to Table 1), Insightful Miner, follows naturally after Clementine for another reason: This tool has the best selection of ETL functions of any data mining tool on the market. These functions include:

• Merging, appending, sorting and filtering (similar to Clementine and Statistical Data Miner)
• Slicing and dicing of input data for purposes of data exploration.
• Joining: creates a new data set by combining columns of two other data sets.
• Stacking and unstacking: creates a new column by combining two or more columns and vice versa.