Wt CLEM STAT IM AM KXEN
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1. Data prep tools 8
Data exploration tools 2 5 10 6 5 4
Data cleaning tools 2 5 6 5 3 0
Data transf. tools 2 7 9 4 0 3
Data splitting tools 2 5 8 5 3 0
 
2. Algorithm Richness 12
Clustering methods 2 2 10 8 8 0
Neural nets 2 3 9 4 7 8
Regression methods 2 6 10 7 6
Classification methods 2 10 8 6 7 8
Time series 2 6 10 0 0
Other 2 10 0 0 10
 
3. Tunability of Algorithms 6
Parameter search? 2 7 0 0 8 8
Facilitation of boosting? 1 0 8 0 2 0
Facilitation of bagging? 1 0 7 0 1 0
 
4. Degree of Automation 6
Data preparation 2 2 2 2 2 10
Model building 2 3 3 2 8 10
Recoding/standardization 2 3 4 2 0 10
 
5. Scalability 4
Parallel support? 2 2 8 0 0 0
IDB capability for scoring? 2 0 10 0 0 0
 
6. Model Portability 6
C/C++ 2 8 10 0 0 10
SQL 2 10 10 0 0
XML 1 0 10 0 0 10
PMML 1 0 10 0 0
 
7. Web Enablement 7 0 10 0 0 0
 
8. Stat. Functionality 5
Level of integration 2 1 9 5 0 0
Procedural or menus 3 3 10 10 10 0
 
9. Graphical/Reporting 8
Correlation matrix 2 0 9 9 6 0
Scatterplots/matrix 1 0 9 3 7 0
Line plots 2 8 9 0 7 0
Reports 1 8 5 0 5 0
Total graphics types 2 3 10 3 2 0
 
10. GUI Intuitiveness 10
Integration with DM proc. 2 8 8 2 8 7
East of building models 2 4 9 4 9 10
Help or wizards 2 5 5 4 5 5
Complexity of streams 2 7 9 7 0 0
Visual progr. capability 2 10 10 10 0 0
 
11. Expandability 3
Custom nodes 1 1 6 0 0 0
C-Program integration 1 0 8 0 0 0
Add Algorithms? 1 0 8 0 0 0
 
12. Scripting/Macros 4
Standard script lang. 1 6 10 0 7 0
Help/syntax examples 1 8 7 0 7 0
Operators/functions 1 9 9 0 9 0
Modeling and scoring 1 0 8 0 8 0
 
13. DM Process 6
Explicit in design 3 9 9 3 7 6
CRiSP/SEMMA, or ? 3 10 8 4 4 4
 
14. Data Preparation 7
Recoding 1 3 10 2 0 10
New variable derivation 2 8 10 5 8 10
Standardization 1 0 10 0 0 10
Dataset splitting 1 8 10 7 0 10
Aggregation capability 1 10 10 9 0 0
Temporal abstractions 0 10 10
 
15. Meta data Remapping 0 0 0 10 0
 
16. Model Eval./Reporting 8
Lift charts 2 0 8 7 8 10
KS statistic 1 0 0 0 0 0
RMS, MAE, etc. 1 0 7 0 0 7
Cross-validation 1 0 8 0 0 0
Variable sens. reports 1 8 8 6 8 10
Pred. accuracy reports 1 8 8 8 8 8
Confusion matrix 1 0 8 10 7 0
 
17. Data Import/Output 8
ASCII
Fixed 1 10 9 9 10 10
Free form 2 10 9 9 10 10
Choice of separators 1 10 9 9 10 10
Excel 1 5 9 9 10 0
Database struct.(ODBC) 1 7 9 9 10 8
Meta data capture 1 10 9 9 10 10
Date formats 10 7 5 10
 
18. Data Exploration 7
Missing value reports 1 8 9 9 10 8
Missing value imputation 2 6 9 0 9 7
Descriptive stat reports 2 4 10 5 0 1
Binning 1 0 7 8 0 0
Sampling 1 7 8 7 0 0
 
19. DM Project Mgt. 3
Project-level organization 1 1 5 1 8 1
Multiple modeling 1 8 9 8 0 8
Meta-modeling 1 6 9 5 0 8
 
20. Dimensionality Reduct. 8
CHAID 2 0 9 0 5 0
PCA 2 9 9 9 5 7
Correlation matrix 2 0 9 8 0 0
Other 2 0 10 0 0 0
 
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21. Drilldown 1 0 10 2 2 0
SQL/internal DB 1 0 8 0 0 0
SQL/external DB 1 2 8 7 0 8
Canned reports. 1 0 3 0 5 0
 
22. Client-Server capability 6 8 10 0 5 10
 
23. Product maturity 5 10 7 2 10 8

WEIGHTED TOTALS 641 1147 474 565 562