Several question on Rapidminer

Question

hi. i am currently evaluating some data mining software and i want to know more about rapidminer.

1) how rapidminer provide better multiple interfaces? 
2) how good can rapidminer in accessing and managing the data? (how well it can reason with noise level)
3) does rapidminer covers all data mining algorithms? which are the algorithms RM is covering?

IngoRM · Answer

Hi,

the learning methods available in the Community Edition are not limited (in the sense that they are performing worse), but there are simply even more operators in the Enterprise Edition. For example those which are directly performing a decision tree learning or Naive Bayes in the database. And there are more connectors to different data sources. The other additional features are more in the areas of user support and professional analysis in collaborative environments like improved documentation etc.

Cheers,
Ingo

jesslyn · Answer

I mean the approaches(neural network, decision tree) and techniques(classification, regression). does the community edition have all of it? or only limited approaches and techniques?

IngoRM · Answer

Hi again,

no, there are differences between the Community Edition and the Enterprise Editions. For the Enterprise Editions, we offer some additional features:* In-Database Mining: Offers several modeling schemes which are directly trained in database without loading the data
* Profiler: Showing the amount of time used in different operators, aggregations over runtimes, and a memory monitor
* Data Editor: Excel-like data editor for repository entries, allows for data changes and meta data corrections
* Access to OLAP cubes
* Access to SAP
* amongh others

The next versions of the Enterprise Editions will also offer an improved documentation mechanism including post-its directly in the process editor, a new extension for real stream mining, and a new mechanism for creating new operators based on subprocesses (operator libraries).

And we of course offer guarantees and support to our Enterprise customers. More information can be found here:

http://rapid-i.com/content/view/181/190/

The differences for RapidAnalytics are even larger. RapidAnalytic Enterprise Edition offer web-based report designers, dashboards, brand styling, style bundles among others. More information can be found at

http://rapid-i.com/content/view/182/192/

as well as in our introduction videos on our web site.

Cheers,
Ingo