In his recent article "How to Choose a Data Mining Suite", Dr. Robert A. Nisbet reviews five popular data mining suites to help companies evaluate which suite is best for their particular needs, including STATISTICA Data Miner, SPSS-Clementine, Affinium Model, Insightful Miner, and KXEN.
The article contains an extremely detailed comparison of procedures and features of these five products on over 100 dimensions (with a detailed table reproduced in the article), concluded with the final composite scores. STATISTICA Data Miner has received a total score of 1,147 (almost two times higher than its closest competitor, SPSS Clementine).
Referring to his comprehensive table showing a weighted comparison of the features and functions of the different tools, Dr. Nisbet notes that by comparing the relatively moderate cost and the weighted score across all features and functions, STATISTICA Data Miner is "the clear winner" and is "in a class by itself". He goes on to state that "no data mining suite available today provides more tools for performing data mining projects" and proclaims STATISTICA Data Miner as his "personal favorite" among the tools he evaluated.
Dr. Nisbet lists the pros of STATISTICA Data Miner, including "the richest combination of parametric statistical and machine learning data mining algorithms", "highly flexible tools for model output", "powerful tools for reduction of dimensionality", and "scalability (STATISTICA Data Miner can more rapidly process larger data sets both in terms of their dimensionality and the overall size than the other products)".
Dr. Nisbet has over 30 years experience in complex systems analysis and modeling as a Research Professor (University of California, Santa Barbara) and as consultant in data mining sciences. While at NCR Corporation and Torrent Systems, he pioneered the design and development of configurable data mining applications for retail sales forecasting, and Churn, Propensity-to-buy, and Customer Acquisition in Telecommunications and Insurance.
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