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RapidMiner (formerly YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment)) is an environment for machine learning
Machine learning

Machine learning is the subfield of artificial intelligence that is concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to improve their performance over time based on data, such as from sensor data or databases....
 and data mining
Data mining

Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. As more data is gathered, with the amount of data doubling every three years, data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool to transform this data into information....
 experiments. It allows experiments to be made up of a large number of arbitrarily nestable operators, described in XML files which can easily be created with RapidMiner's graphical user interface
Graphical user interface

A graphical user interface is a type of user interface which allows people to human-computer interaction such as computers; hand-held devices such as MP3 Players, Portable Media Players or Gaming devices; household appliances and office equipment....
. Applications of RapidMiner cover both research and real-world data mining tasks.

The initial version has been developed by the Artificial Intelligence Unit of University of Dortmund since 2001.






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RapidMiner (formerly YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment)) is an environment for machine learning
Machine learning

Machine learning is the subfield of artificial intelligence that is concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to improve their performance over time based on data, such as from sensor data or databases....
 and data mining
Data mining

Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. As more data is gathered, with the amount of data doubling every three years, data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool to transform this data into information....
 experiments. It allows experiments to be made up of a large number of arbitrarily nestable operators, described in XML files which can easily be created with RapidMiner's graphical user interface
Graphical user interface

A graphical user interface is a type of user interface which allows people to human-computer interaction such as computers; hand-held devices such as MP3 Players, Portable Media Players or Gaming devices; household appliances and office equipment....
. Applications of RapidMiner cover both research and real-world data mining tasks.

The initial version has been developed by the Artificial Intelligence Unit of University of Dortmund since 2001. It is distributed under a GNU
GNU

GNU is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its name is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix; it was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code....
 license, and has been hosted by SourceForge
SourceForge

SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications ....
 since 2004.

RapidMiner provides more than 500 operators for all main machine learning procedures, including input and output, and data preprocessing and visualization. It is written in the Java programming language
Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java ....
 and therefore can work on all popular operating systems. It also integrates all learning schemes and attribute evaluators of the Weka
Weka (machine learning)

Weka is a popular suite of machine learning software written in Java , developed at the University of Waikato. WEKA is free software available under the GNU General Public License....
 learning environment.

Properties


Some properties of RapidMiner are:
  • written in Java
  • knowledge discovery
    Knowledge discovery

    Knowledge discovery is a concept of the field of computer science that describes the process of automatically searching large volumes of data for patterns that can be considered knowledge about the data....
     processes are modeled as operator trees
  • internal XML representation ensures standardized interchange format of data mining experiments
  • scripting language allows for automatic large-scale experiments
  • multi-layered data view concept ensures efficient and transparent data handling
  • graphical user interface
    Graphical user interface

    A graphical user interface is a type of user interface which allows people to human-computer interaction such as computers; hand-held devices such as MP3 Players, Portable Media Players or Gaming devices; household appliances and office equipment....
    , command line mode (batch mode
    Batch file

    In DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, a batch file is a text file containing a series of Command intended to be executed by the Command line interpreter....
    ), and Java API for using RapidMiner from your own programs
  • plugin
    Plugin

    In computing, a plug-in consists of a computer program that interacts with a host application software to provide a certain, usually very specific, function "on demand"....
     and extension
    Extension (computing)

    A software extension is a computer program designed to be incorporated into another piece of software in order to enhance, or extend, the functionalities of the latter....
     mechanisms, several plugins already exist
  • plotting facility offering a large set of high-dimensional visualization schemes for data and models
  • applications include text mining
    Text mining

    Text mining, sometimes alternately referred to as text data mining, roughly equivalent to text analytics, refers generally to the process of deriving high-quality information from text....
    , multimedia mining, feature engineering, data stream mining and tracking drifting concepts, development of ensemble methods, and distributed data mining.


External links

  • , the company behind RapidMiner, providing professional services for RapidMiner users