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I am evaluating datamining packages.
I have find these two so far:

  • RapidMiner
  • Weka
  • Do you have any experience to share with these two products, or any other product to recommend me?
    Thanks

    +2  A: 

    I have used Weka in a high school course, and it had a nice SVM implementation. This was 4 or 5 years ago.

    Miguel Ping
    +2  A: 

    Pentaho is a nice suit for Business Intelligence. So maybe you would like to take a look at it. I have some experience in it, mainly for data warehousing and was quite happy.

    Roman Glass
    It seems like Pentaho is a major sponsor of Weka: http://weka.sf.net
    Miguel Ping
    Didn't know that. Maybe I have to re-view Weka.
    Roman Glass
    +2  A: 

    Another alternative would be Orange. It includes various algorithms and data mining techniques that you can access either directly through Python scripts or through GUI.

    Mr. Brownstone
    +1  A: 

    Re-invent the wheel and code directly in R !

    Josh
    +1 for Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.
    Marc Bollinger
    +1  A: 

    According to the yearly KDnuggets Polls 2007, 2008, and 2009, RapidMiner is the most widely used Open Source Data Mining Solution among data mining experts world-wide: KDnuggets Data Mining Tool Poll 2009

    RapidMiner is open source and 100% Java, RapidMiner is much more flexible and offers significantly more functionality than Weka and KNIME.

    Regarding SVM implementations: Weka comes with one such implementation (LibSVM), while RapidMiner provides four SVM implementations (LibSVM, MySVM, EvoSVM, SMO-SVM), some of them with more advanced features.

    A: 

    As said before, Pentaho is a powerful Business Intelligence suite which WEKA belong to.

    So I'd also recommand Weka, just for the sake that you have a great solution to extend your application and a great community also.

    iChaib
    A: 

    (KNIME ) is fairly extensive data mining platform.

    Max