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The DMReview article, "How to Choose a Data Mining Suite", by Robert A. Nisbet, reviews five data mining suites: STATISTICA Data Miner, SPSS Clementine, Affinium Model, Insightful Miner and KXEN.

The choice of a data mining suite is not an easy task. This article provides a brief outline of some considerations that could affect your decision. Contrary to common opinion, the best tool suite for you may not be the most advanced tool, it may not be the one with the most data mining algorithms nor the one that gives the greatest accuracy in prediction. More important than all of these things is identifying the tool suite that is:

• Easy to use,
• Provides acceptable accuracy (even though not the highest accuracy available),
• Able to perform all the common tasks in a data mining project.