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DM Direct Special Report, Jan 24, 2006, By Robert A. Nisbet

It has been several years since I ventured forth to answer the question, "How to Choose a Data Mining Tool Suite." That article was organized around two central concepts:

1. There is no "best" tool; that is, no best tool for everyone.

2. The most useful tools are those that facilitate well the greatest number of tasks in the kind of data mining applications that you need to perform.

Here is the rest of the story.