Survey Report of Data Mining Tools Comparison

Data Mining Software list:

Tool Name CART MARS SEE5 DIGITAL LOGIC GRIT BOT SAS MAGNUM OPUS SPSS LERS WEKA

Company Name Salford System Salford System RuleQuest Research Reduct &Lobbe Technologies Inc. RuleQuest Research SAS Institute RuleQuest Research SPSS Inc. RS System University of Waikato

URL http://www.salfordsystems.com/ http://www.salfordsystems.com/ http://www.rulequest.com/ http://www.reduct.com/ http://www.rulequest.com/ http://www.sas.com/ http://www.rulequest.com/ http://www.spss.com/

http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/

 Platforms

Tool Name CART MARS SEE5 DIGITAL LOGIC GRIT BOT SAS MAGNUM OPUS SPSS LERS WEKA

PC Standalone (98/2000/XP/NT) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Unix Standalone Yes Yes Yes Unknown Yes No No No No Yes

Client/Server Yes No No No No Yes No No No No

Database Connectivity No No No No No Yes No No No Yes

 Data Input forms

Statisticalanalysis packages (SAS SPSS) Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No No Rational Databases (Informix Oracle) Yes No No No No No No No No Yes Only used by own format Translated to AREF format built on menu Only used by own format Data Translation Tool DBMS/COPY DBMS/COPY Only used by own format Must define format file (*.typ) Only used by own format

Tool Name

Spread sheets (Excel Lotus) Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No Yes

CART MARS SEE5 DIGITAL LOGIC GRIT BOT SAS MAGNUM OPUS SPSS LERS WEKA

 Algorithms

Tool Name

D e c i s i o n T r e e

L i n e a r / S t a ti s ti c a l

M u lt il a y e r P e r c e p t r o n s

N e a r e s t N e i g h b o r

R a d i a l B a s i s F u n c ti o n s

B a y e s

R u l e I n d u c ti o n

P o l y n o m i a l N e t w o r k s

G e n e r a li z e d L i n e a r M o d e l

T i m e S e r i e s

S e q u e n t i a l D i s c o v e r y

K M e a n s

A s s o c i a ti o n R u l e s

CART MARS SEE5 DIGITAL LOGIC GRIT BOT SAS MAGNUM OPUS SPSS LERS

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes

Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes

Yes Yes

WEKA

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes

Visualization

Tool Name CART MARS SEE5 DIGITAL LOGIC GRIT BOT SAS MAGNUM OPUS SPSS

Histograms

Pie Chart

Scatter/Line Plots Yes

Classification Tree Yes

Correlation Plots

Yes Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

LERS WEKA Yes

Applied Fields

Tool Name

Marketing

Direct Mail Market segment profitability, campaign targeting, response prediction

Financial Service

Manufacturing

CART

Market segmentation, customer profiling, retention/attrition analyses New customer acquisition AD predicting on web

Credit card scoring, fraud detection Bankruptcy forecasting Credit risk accessing, real estate profiling Stock trend analysis,

Assembly line failures, quality control

A Health d Care v a n Clinicalt trials, a biomedical g researche s

MARS SEE5

Production process controlling Agriculture pattern research, quality control, process model control Agriculture analysis Medical diagnosing Disease diagnosing, genes analysis

DIGITAL LOGIC

Market pattern research

GRIT BOT Marketing timing, customer mention analysis, customer relationship management Customer segmenting Customer life value analysis, including crosssell, retention, acquisition

Customer segmentation Customer classification and segmentation

Bankruptcy forecasting Portfolio performance analysis Credit data scoring Financial forecasting, budgeting analysis Credit scoring

SAS MAGNU M OPUS SPSS

Quality improvement analysis Decision support for diagnosing

LERS

WEKA

and disadvantages

Tool Name CART MARS SEE5 DIGITAL LOGIC GRIT BOT SAS

Advantages Depth of tree options Multivariate regression Depth of tree options Can be working with imprecise, incomplete and inconsistent data Strong anomalies finding Depth of algorithms, visual interface, reasonable graphic output Fast speed (linear computation time), good flexibility, can handle big data set Depth of algorithms, widely used, powerful functionalities Easy to use Can be working on any platform

Disadvantages Difficult file input/output, limited visualization Limited algorithms Few data options, limited visualization Limited algorithms Limited algorithms Hard to use, need to master SAS programming language Limited usage

MAGNUM OPUS

SPSS LERS WEKA

Hard to use Limited algorithms, no visualization tools Low speed