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Top 20 Predictive Analytics Freeware Software

Top 20 Predictive Analytics Freeware Software: R, Orange, RapidMiner, Weka, GraphLab Create, Octave, Data Science
Studio (DSS), H2O, Lavastorm Public Edition, Tanagra, PredictionIO, HP Distributed R, KNIME, scikit-learn, Actian
Analytics Platform, Apache Spark MLlib, Apache Mahout, LIBLINEAR, Vowpal Wabbit, NumPy , and SciPy are some of
the key players in the freeware predictive analytics market in no particular order.Predictive analytics uses statistics,
machine learning and data mining to search for correlations and patterns which offer clues about customer

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behavior, market trends and other area in the raw data sets.
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Software, are free versions or community editions of the commercial
versions which offers less functionalities and capabilities.

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Top 20 Predictive Analytics Freeware Software

1.R
R is a free software for statistical computing and graphics which runs on a wide variety of UNIX, Windows and Mac
OS platforms. R provides a wide variety of statistical functionalities such as linear, nonlinear modelling, classical
statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering and graphical techniques. It is also highly extensible and
provides capabilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display,data handling, calculations on arrays,
tools for data analysis, programming language which includes conditionals, loops and many other capabilities. S
language is mostly used in research in statistical methodology and R provides an open source route to this
activity.Well designed publication quality plots can be produced in R, including the mathematical symbols and
formula.
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2.Orange
Orange is an open source data visualization and analysis tool. Data mining is done through visual programming or
through Python scripting. Orange remembers the choices, suggests most frequently used combinations, and
intelligently chooses which communication channels between widgets to use. Catterplots, bar charts, trees, to
dendrograms, networks and heatmaps are available for visualizations. There are components for machine learning
and add ons for bioinformatics and text mining available. The solution is packed with features for data analytics and
there are over 100 widgets to use in Orange.
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3.RapidMiner
RapidMiner is available as a stand alone application for data analysis and as a data mining engine for the integration
into own product. RapidMiner provides data mining and machine learning procedures including, data loading and
transformation, data pre processing, visualization, modeling, evaluation, and deployment. RapidMiner is written in
the Java programming language. It uses learning schemes and attribute evaluators from the Weka machine learning
environment and statistical modelling schemes from R Project.This can be used for text mining, multimedia mining,
feature engineering, data stream mining, development of ensemble methods, and distributed data mining.
RapidMiner v6.0 remains open source. RapidMiner latest versions are now only available as a trial version or under a
commercial license.
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Rapid Miner

4.Weka
Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied
directly to a dataset or called from the Java code. Weka contains tools for data pre processing, classification,
regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well suited for developing new machine learning
schemes.
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5.GraphLab Create
GraphLab Create is a machine learning platform built for developers and data scientists with functional
programming skills and some basic understanding of data science. It allows them to easily prototype and scale their
ideas from inspiration to production. Example services include recommenders, fraud detectors or customer churn
predictors. Developers and data scientists are able to quickly deploy and easily integrate with other applications. The
Discover edition offers a free developers license with community forum support.
GraphLab Create (https://dato.com/)

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6.Octave
Octave is a high level interpreted language for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical
solution of linear, nonlinear problems and graphics for data visualization and manipulation. There are tools available
for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary
functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential algebraic equations.
Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/)

Octave

7.Data Science Studio (DSS) Community Edition

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7.Data Science Studio (DSS) Community Edition

Data Science Studio (DSS) is a software platform that aggregates all the steps and big data tools necessary to get
from raw data to production ready application. DSS profiles the data to help to find correlations and significant
variables in data with only a few clicks and trains and tests best-fitting models. DSS can make the models and
predicted values accessible to other business applications through a REST API.DSS can also publish the models and
predicted values to a variety of other destinations such as ElasticSearch, FTP servers, internal Datawarehouses.
Data Science Studio (DSS) Community Edition (http://www.dataiku.com/dss/communityedition/)

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Data Science Studio (DSS)

8.H2O
H2O is an open source predictive analytics platform. H2O users can easily explore and model big data from within
Microsoft Excel and RStudio and connect it with data from HDFS, S3, SQL and NoSQL data sources. H2O speaks the
language of data science with support for R, Python, Scala, Java and a robust REST API. Business applications are
powered by H2Os NanoFastTM Scoring Engine. Algorithms include Distributed Trees and Regression, such as
Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), Random Forest (RF), Generalized Linear Modeling (GLM), k-Means and Principal
Component Analysis (PCA).
H2O (http://0xdata.com/product/)

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H2O

9.Lavastorm Public Edition

Lavastorm Analytics Engine Public Edition is an easy to use, cost effective tool for ad hoc discovery and business
process audit analytics. Public Edition is ideal for those who want to put analytic processing power on desktop and
do not require the big data processing power, automated and continuous analytics, and collaboration capabilities of
the Lavastorm Analytic Engine Server.
Lavastorm Analytics Engine Public Edition (http://www.lavastorm.com/)

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Lavastorm Analytics Engine platform deliver Predictive Insights

10.Tanagra

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Tanagra is a free data mining software for academic and research purposes, which has capabilities for several data
mining methods from exploratory data analysis, statistical learning, machine learning and databases area. Tanagra
supports several standard data mining tasks such as: Visualization, Descriptive statistics, Instance selection, feature
selection, Feature construction, regression, Factorial analysis, clustering, classification and Association rule learning.
The functionalities include, stream diagram which represents the sequence of operations applied on data by a graph
where the nodes symbolize the analysis performed on the data and the links between nodes and the flow of
processed data.
Tanagra (http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~ricco/tanagra/en/tanagra.html)

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Tanagra

11.PredictionIO
PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server for software developers to create predictive features, such
as personalization, recommendation and content discovery. Through PredictionIO, features such as predict user
behaviors, offering personalized video, news, deals, ads, job openings, events, documents, apps, restaurants and
match making services can be added in applications.
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PredictionIO (http://prediction.io/)

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PredictionIO

12. HP Distributed R and HP Vertica Community Edition

HP Distributed R, is an open source, scalable and high performance platform for the R language which accelerates
large-scale machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph processing. Haven Predictive Analytics provides data
acceleration and native SQL support with HP Vertica. The native integration with the market leading columnar MPP
database increases overall data access performance by up to 5X and provides a comprehensive set of proven, out-of-
the-box parallel algorithms that produce accurate and consistent results with mature standard R algorithms. Haven
Predictive Analytics is free and fully compatible with the open source R language and tools and backed by enterprise
support from HP and priced per node.
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13.KNIME
KNIME Desktop is open source and is a user friendly graphical workbench for data access, data transformation, initial
investigation, predictive analytics, visualization and reporting. The open integration platform provides over 1000
modules or nodes. KNIME also provides the ability to develop reports based on data information and to automate
the application of new insight back into production systems. KNIME products are available as KNIME Desktop, KNIME
Professional, KNIME Team Space, KNIME Server and KNIME Cluster Execution. KNIME Desktop can be freely
downloaded in to desktop. This is based on the Eclipse platform and is available in dual license. The functionalities in
non open source products include shared repositories, authentication, remote execution, scheduling, SOA
integration and a web user interface.
KNIME (http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/knime/)

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Knime

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14.scikit-learn
scikit-learn is simple and efficient tools for data mining and data analysis. It is Machine Learning in Python and built
on NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib which is also Open source. The features include Classification, Regression,
Clustering, Dimensionality reduction, Model selection and Preprocessing.
scikit-learn (http://scikit-learn.org/dev/index.html)

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scikit-learn

15.Actian Analytics Platform, Express

Actian Analytics Platform, Express Hadoop SQL Edition, is a free community version of the end-to-end analytics
platform running 100 percent inside of Hadoop. The Actian Analytics Platform turns Hadoop into a high-performance
analytics platform, enabling organizations to improve the accuracy of predictions and decision making by analyzing
data from more sources without sampling. Actian Express, Hadoop SQL Edition delivers unmatched speed and
price/performance using existing Hadoop clusters.
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Actian Express- Hadoop SQL Edition delivers Big Data Value

16.Apache Spark MLlib

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Apache Spark MLlib built on Apache Spark, is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. MLlib
provides algorithms including linear SVM and logistic regression, classification and regression tree, random forest
and gradient-boosted trees, recommendation via alternating least squares, clustering via k-means, Gaussian
mixtures, and power iteration clustering, topic modeling via latent Dirichlet allocation, singular value decomposition,
linear regression with L1- and L2-regularization, isotonic regression, multinomial naive Bayes, frequent itemset
mining via FP-growth, basic statistics and feature transformations.
Apache Spark MLlib (https://spark.apache.org/mllib/)

17.Apache Mahout
Apache Mahout provides scalable machine learning algorithms focused primarily in the areas of collaborative
filtering, clustering and classification. Many of the implementations use the Apache Hadoop platform and include
mature Hadoop MapReduce algorithms, Scala, Spark, H2O algorithms. Collaborative Filtering : User-Based
Collaborative Filtering,Item-Based Collaborative Filtering,Matrix Factorization with ALS,Matrix Factorization with ALS
on Implicit Feedback and Weighted Matrix Factorization, SVD++.
Apache Mahout (http://mahout.apache.org/)

18.LIBLINEAR
LIBLINEAR is a linear classifier for data with millions of instances and features. It supports L2-regularized classifiers,
L2-loss linear SVM, L1-loss linear SVM, and logistic regression (LR), L1-regularized classifiers (after version 1.4),L2-loss
linear SVM and logistic regression (LR). Main features include multi-class classification: 1) one-vs-the rest, 2) Crammer
& Singer, cross validation for model selection and probability estimates (logistic regression only).
LIBLINEAR (http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/liblinear/)

19.Vowpal Wabbit
Vowpal Wabbit is a scalable implementation of online machine learning and support for a number of machine
learning reductions, importance weighting, and a selection of different loss functions and optimization
algorithms.Via parallel learning, it can exceed the throughput of any single machine network interface when doing
linear learning, a first amongst learning algorithms.
Vowpal Wabbit (http://hunch.net/~vw/)

20.NumPy
NumPy is a package for scientific computing with Python, which supports N-dimensional array object, sophisticated
(broadcasting) functions, tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code and useful linear algebra, Fourier transform,
and random number capabilities
NumPy (http://www.numpy.org/)

21.SciPy
The SciPy Stack, is a collection of open source software for scientific computing in Python, and specified set of core
packages including NumPy, scipy, matplotlib, ipython, Sympy and pandas.
SciPy (http://www.scipy.org/index.html)

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