Poll: Data Mining Tools You Used in 2005

KDnuggets : Polls : Data Mining Tools You Used in 2005 (May 2005)

Poll

Data mining/Analytic tools you used in 2005 [376 voters, 860 votes total]
SPSS Clementine	135
SPSS	96
Excel	78
CART/MARS/TreeNet/RF	69
SAS	53
SAS Enterprise Miner	49
Your own code	39
Other free tools	34
Insightful Miner/ S-Plus	32
Statsoft Statistica	30
Weka	30
ThinkAnalytics	26
C4.5/C5.0/See5	25
R	25
Microsoft SQL Server	23
Other commercial tools	23
MATLAB	16
Mineset (PurpleInsight)	16
Xelopes	16
Oracle Data Mining	10
Gornik	8
KXEN	7
IBM Iminer	5
Angoss	3
Equbits	3
Fair Isaac	3
GhostMiner	3
Megaputer	3

Comments

The numbers above represent the actual number of votes. Percentage will differ depending on whether it is computed relative to number of responders or number of votes.

Editor, Tool prices
Tool prices tend to change, and differ for business and academic users (which sometimes can get a free license for research). With these caveats, the above tools can be grouped into these broad categories, according to an estimated price for business users as of May 2005.

Enterprise-level: (US $10,000 and more)
Fair Isaac, IBM, Insightful, KXEN, Oracle, SAS, and SPSS
Department-level: (from $1,000 to $9,999)
Angoss, CART/MARS/TreeNet/Random Forests, Equbits, GhostMiner, Gornik, Mineset, MATLAB, Megaputer, Microsoft SQL Server, Statsoft Statistica, ThinkAnalytics
Personal-level: (from $1 to $999): Excel, See5
Free: C4.5, R, Weka, Xelopes

Tom Khabaza, Email Voting Confirmation
I'm very pleased to see this confirmation system in place. I think it will help us get more accurate results.

Katharina Morik, free system
Yale is well suited if feature extraction and selection is necessary. Its storage of long data mining chains allows re-use for similar cases.

Paul Pimenidis, I missed Yale...
I missed Yale (http://yale.cs.uni-dortmund.de) in this poll. This free environment adds much value to Weka and seems to have a huge number of users.

KDnuggets : Polls : Data Mining Tools You Used in 2005