Most Popular Data Mining Software

Surveys conducted by KDD Nuggets and Rexer Analytics have asked people involved in data mining what software they use. While it's not necessarily true that the most popular software is the best for a particular purpose, they can help guide you in choosing what software to evaluate.

KDD Nuggets Poll May 2010

The results of the KDD Nugget Survey were based on about 900 respondents to the question "Which data mining/analytic tools you used in the past 12 months for a real project?"

1. Rapid Miner
2. R
3. KNIME
4. "Own Code"
5. Weka or Pentaho

Rexler Analyics Survey 2010

This survey asked data miners about the software the use as a primary tool, frequently or occasionally.The top 5 most used tools were:

1. R
2. SAS
3. IBM SPSS Statistics
4. IBM SPSS Modeller
5. Weka

The top 5 primary tools were:

1. Statistica
2. IBM SPSS Modeller
3. SAS
4. R
5. IBM SPSS Statistics