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data. SOMine supports clustering, classification, and visualization processes. It works on all Windows platforms.

TIBCO Spotfire® Professional

Vendor: TIBCO Software Inc. (www.spotfire.tibco.com)

TIBCO Spotfire® Professional makes it easy to build and deploy reusable analytic applications over the Web, or perform pure ad hoc analytics, driven on-the-fly by your own knowledge, intuition, and desire to answer the next question. Spotfire analytics does all this by letting you interactively query, visualize, aggregate, filter, and drill into data sets of virtually any size. Ultimately you will reach faster insights with Spotfire and bring clarity to business issues or opportunities in a way that gets all the decision makers on the same page quickly.

A.5.3 Commercial Software WITHOUT Trial Version

AdvancedMiner

Vendor: StatConsulting (www.statconsulting.eu)

AdvancedMiner is a platform for data mining and analysis, featuring modeling interface (OOP script, latest GUI design, advanced visualization) and grid computing.

Affinium Model

Vendor: Unica Corp. (www.unica.com)

Affinium Model (from Unica), includes valuator, profiler, response modeler, and cross-seller. Unica provides innovative marketing solutions that turn your passion for marketing into business success. Our unique interactive marketing approach incorporates customer and Web analytics, centralized decision, cross-channel execution, and integrated marketing operations. More than 1000 organizations worldwide depend on Unica.

IBM SPSS Modeler Professional

Vendor: SPSS Inc., an IBM company (www.spss.com)

IBM SPSS Modeler Professional has optimization techniques for large data sets, including boosting and bagging, which improve model stability and accuracy. It also enhanced visualization for key algorithms, including neural net and decision tree. In particular, new interactive visualization for key algorithms and ensemble models is offered in order to make results easier to understand and communicate.

DataDetective

Vendor: Sentient Information Systems (www.sentient.nl)

DataDetective, the powerful yet easy to use data-mining platform and the crime analysis software of choice for the Dutch police.

DeltaMaster

Vendor: Bissantz & Company GmbH (www.bissantz.com)

Delta Miner is a multiple-strategy tool supporting clustering, summarization, deviation-detection, and visualization processes. A common application is the analysis of financial controlling data. It runs on Windows platforms and it integrates new search techniques and “business intelligence” methodologies into an OLAP front end.

EWA Systems

Vendor: EWA Systems Inc. (www.ewasystems.com)

EWA Systems provide enterprise analytics solutions: Math and statistics libraries, data mining, text mining, optimization, visualization, and rules engine software are all available from one coordinated source. EWA Systems’ ability to tackle such a broad range of analytical solutions means our clients gain efficiencies in purchasing software that fits together modularly, as well as incurring decreased consulting costs. Our tools have been deployed worldwide in industries as diverse as financial analysis, e-commerce, manufacturing and education where their outstanding performance and quality is unrivaled. Whether you are using a single PC or a supercomputer, EWA Systems has the numerical software capabilities to fit your need.

FastStats™

Vendor: APTECO Limited (www.apteco.com)

FastStats Suite, marketing analysis products, including data mining, customer profiling, and campaign management.

IBM Intelligent Miner

Vendor: IBM (www.ibm.com)

DB2 Data Warehouse Edition (DWE) is a suite of products that combines the strength of DB2 Universal Database™ (DB2 UDB) with the powerful business intelligence infrastructure from IBM®. DB2 Data Warehouse Edition provides a comprehensive business intelligence platform with the tools your enterprise and partners need to deploy and build next generation analytic solutions.

KnowledgeMiner

Vendor: KnowledgeMiner Software (www.knowledgeminer.com)

KnowledgeMiner, a self-organizing modeling tool that uses GMDH neural nets and AI to easily extract knowledge from data. (MacOS)

MATLAB NN Toolbox

Vendor: Mathworks Inc. (www.mathworks.com)

A MATLAB extension implements an Engineering environment for research in neural networks and its design, simulation, and application. It offers various network architectures and different learning strategies. Classification and function approximations are typical data-mining problems that can be solved using this tool. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Unix platforms.

Predictive Data Mining Suite

Vendor: Predictive Dynamix (www.predx.com)

Predictive Data Mining Suite integrates graphical and statistical data analysis with modeling algorithms including neural networks, clustering, fuzzy systems, and genetic algorithms.

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 SitesWeb SiteDescriptionwww.ics.uci.eduA 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/htmlThis address collects files, programs, and publications of interest to the AI research community.www.cs.reading.ac.uk/people/dwc/ai.htmlAn online resource to AI programs, software, data sets, bibliographies, and links.www.datamining.orgThis 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.orgJournal of AI Research: The journal includes research articles, technical notes, surveys, and expository articles in the field of machine learning.www.kdnuggets.comThis 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_5810Journal 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.htmlAn up-to-date online