Data Mining Poll Data Over the Years

Anne Milley investigates the KDnuggets Data Mining Tools Polls over the past 10 years. See what she finds and what happens to the ratio of commercial, open-source and own code.

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The current KDnuggets Analytics / Data Mining Tools Poll prompted Anne Milley to analyze past tool polls.

While KDnuggets Tools are not scientific, and occasionally vendors become overly enthusiastic, they are a useful reflection of popularity of analytics and data mining tool. In particular, they accurately reflect the rise of open-source tools, such as R and RapidMiner, at the expense of market share of tools like Clementine.

Anne Milley used JMP to analyze the results of the last 10 KDnuggets Data Mining Tools Polls - here is a preview of her results.

See also a very nice animation of commercial, open-source, and own code proportion and her full blog at Data Mining Poll Data Over the Years.

Here are the past KDnuggets polls

• 2010 Poll: Data Mining / Analytic Tools Used
• 2009 Poll: Data Mining Tools Used
• 2008 Poll: What data mining tools have you used for a real project in the past 6 months?
• 2007 Poll: Data Mining / Analytic Software (Tools)
• 2006 Poll: Data mining tools
• 2005 Poll: Data mining tools you used
• 2004 Poll: Data mining software you use frequently 2003 Poll: Data mining tools you regularly use
• 2002 Poll: What data mining tools you regularly use?
• 2001 Poll: Data mining tools you regularly use
• 2000 Poll: Data Mining Tools You Regularly Use