Comparing Four-Selected Data Mining Software

This chapter discusses four-selected software for data mining that are not available as free open-source software. The four-selected software for data mining are SAS® Enterprise MinerTM, Megaputer PolyAnalyst® 5.0, NeuralWare Predict® and BioDiscovery GeneSight ®, each of which was provided by partnerships with our university. These software are described and compared by their existing features, characteristics, and algorithms and also applied to a large database of forest cover types with 63,377 rows and 54 attributes. Background on related literature and software are also presented. Screen shots of each of the four-selected software are presented, as are future directions and conclusions.