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Enterprise Miner
Vendor: SAS Institute Inc. (www.sas.com)
SAS (Enterprise Miner) represents one of the most comprehensive sets of integrated tools for data mining. It also offers a variety of data manipulation and transformation features. In addition to statistical methods, the SAS Data Mining Solution employs neural networks, decision trees, and SAS Web hound that analyzes Web-site traffic. It runs on Windows and Unix platforms and it provides a user-friendly GUI front end to the Sample, Explore, Modify, Model, Assess (SEMMA).
SPAD
Vendor: Coheris (www.coheris.fr)
SPAD, provides powerful exploratory analyses and data-mining tools, including PCA, clustering, interactive decision trees, discriminant analyses, neural networks, text mining and more, all via user-friendly GUI.
Viscovery Data Mining Suite
Vendor: Viscovery (www.viscovery.net)
The Viscovery® Data Mining Suite offers a selection of software for predictive analytics and data mining designed to comprehensively address the needs of business and technical users. Workflows support the generation of high-performance predictive models that may be integrated in real-time and updated automatically. The Viscovery Data Mining Suite comprises the modules—Profiler, Predictor, Scheduler, Decision Maker, One(2)One Engine—for the realization of predictive analytics and data mining applications.
Warehouse Miner
Vendor: Teradata Corp. (www.teradata.com)
Warehouse Miner provides different statistical analyses, decision-tree methods, and regression methodologies for in-place mining on a Teradata database-management system.
A.6 WEB SITE LINKS
A.6.1 General Web Sites
Web Site Description
www.ics.uci.edu A comprehensive machine-learning site. Popular for its large repository of standard data sets and machine-learning programs for experimental evaluation.
www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/quest/ An online resource for research in data mining using IBM Intelligent Miner. It contains Synthetic Data Generation Codes for associations, sequential patterns, and classification.
www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html This address collects files, programs, and publications of interest to the AI research community.
www.cs.reading.ac.uk/people/dwc/ai.html An online resource to AI programs, software, data sets, bibliographies, and links.
www.datamining.org This is a site run by a group of users and international data-mining tool providers. It is geared more for business users, and it provides links to many data-mining sites.
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/ Repositories focusing on the scientific study of machine learning.
www.jair.org Journal of AI Research: The journal includes research articles, technical notes, surveys, and expository articles in the field of machine learning.
www.kdnuggets.com This site contains information about data-mining activities and pointers to past and current research. It maintains a guide to commercial- and public-domain tools for data mining. It also provides links to companies supporting software, consulting, and data-mining services.
www.springerlink.com/content/1384_5810 Journal of Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery: The journal consolidates papers in both the research and practice of knowledge discovery, surveys of implementation techniques and application papers.
www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html An up-to-date online resource to statistical software, data sets, and links.
otal.umd.edu/Olive/Multi-D.html A list of projects and products for multidimensional visualization.
A.6.2 Web Sites for Data-Mining Software Tools
Web Site Data-Mining Tool
www.statconsulting.eu AdvancedMiner
www.unica.com Affinium Model
www.dazsi.com AgentBase/Marketeer
www.alice-soft.com Alice d’Isoft
www.openchannelsoftware.com Autoclass III
www.bayesia.com BayesiaLab
kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/bkd/ Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer
www.prevision.com/bmr.html BMR
http://salford-systems.com/cart.php