Anaconda vs Darwin comparison

Anaconda and SparkCognition are both solutions in the Data Science Platforms category. Anaconda is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.8, while SparkCognition is ranked #27. Anaconda holds a 2.1% mindshare in Data Science Platforms, compared to SparkCognition’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Anaconda users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SparkCognition users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Anaconda and Darwin based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Science Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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IBM SPSS Statistics

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of IBM SPSS Statistics is 2.8%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Anaconda is 2.1%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Darwin is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

AbakarAhmat

Software Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

Sep 21, 2023

Enhancing survey analysis that provides valued insightfulness

I use it to analyze questionnaire surveys related to a product, solution, or application, such as open data services, which I provide to consumers and end-users. These surveys contain evaluation assessments, and I use SPSS to analyze the responses The most valuable feature is its robust…

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Rohan Sharma

AI/ML Co-Lead at Developer Student Clubs - GGV

May 9, 2024

Provides all the frameworks and makes it easy to create environments for multiple projects

I have been very enthusiastic about artificial intelligence and machine learning since my first year. I started learning Python in my first year and was using a MacBook with the M1 chip, which didn't have native Python support. I discovered Anaconda, which developed Python for Mac, so I started…

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AaronCooke

Founder at Helio Summit

Jun 11, 2021

Empowers SMEs to build solutions and interface them with the existing business systems, products and workflows.

There's always room for improvement in the UI and continuing to evolve it to do everything that the rest of AI can do. Because it's so much better than traditional methods, we don't get a ton of complaints of, "Oh, we wish we could do that." Most people are happy to see that they can build models that quickly, and that it can be done by the people who actually understand the problem, i.e. SMEs, rather than having to rely on data scientists. There's a small learning curve, but it's shorter for an SME in a given industry to learn Darwin than it takes for data scientists to learn industry-specific problems. The industry I work in deals with tons and tons of data and a lot of it lends itself to Darwin-created solutions. Initially, there were some limitations around the size of the datasets, the number of rows and number of columns. That was probably the biggest challenge. But we've seen the Darwin product, over time, slowly remove those limitations. We're happy with the progress they've made.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The features that I have found most valuable are the Bayesian statistics and descriptive statistics."

"The most valuable features are the solution is easy to use, training new users is not difficult, and our usage is comprehensive because the whole service is beneficial."

"The most valuable feature of IBM SPSS Statistics is all the functionality it provides. Additionally, it is simple to do the five-way analysis that you can into multidimensional setup space. It's the multidimensional space facility that is most useful."

"SPSS is quite robust and quicker in terms of providing you the output."

"Some of the most valuable features that we are using with some business models are machine learning algorithms, statistical models given to us by the business, and getting data from the database or text files."

"Since we are using the software as a statistical tool, I would say the best aspects of it are the regression and segmentation capabilities. That said, I've used it for all sorts of things."

"The most valuable feature is the user interface because you don't need to write code."

"They have many existing algorithms that we can use and use effectively to analyze and understand how to put our data to work to improve what we do."

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"The solution is stable."

"The documentation is excellent and the solution has a very large and active community that supports it."

"With Anaconda Navigator, we have been able to use multiple IDEs such as JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, Visual Studio Code, and RStudio in one place. The platform-agnostic package manager, "Conda", makes life easy when it comes to managing and installing packages."

"The notebook feature is an improvement over RStudio."

"The most advantageous feature is the logic building."

"The most valuable feature is the set of libraries that are used to support the functionality that we require."

"It provides a unified platform where you can install Jupyter, Python Spider, and other related tools without needing separate installations."

"The best part of Anaconda is the media distribution that comes as part of it. It gets us started very quickly."

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"I find it quite simple to use. Once you are trained on the model, you can use it anyway you want."

"The key feature is the automated model-building. It has a good UI that will let people who aren't data scientists get in there and upload datasets and actually start building models, with very little training. They don't need to have any understanding of data science."

"In terms of streamlining a lot of the low-level data science work, it does a few things there."

"The solution helps with the automatic assessment of the quality of datasets, such as missing data points or incorrect data types."

"The most valuable feature is the model-generation. With a nice dataset, Darwin gives you a nice model. That's a really nice feature because, if we're doing that ourselves, it's trial and error; we change the parameters a little and try again. We save time by just giving the dataset to Darwin and letting Darwin generate a model. We find the models it generates are good; better than we can generate."

"The thing that I find most valuable is the ability to clean the data."

"Darwin has increased efficiency and productivity for our company. With our risk management team, there were models that took them more than three days to process each, only to see the outcome. Now, it takes minutes for Darwin to process the current model. So, we can have it in minutes. We don't have to wait three days for all the models to be tested, then make a decision."

"I liked the data checking feature where it looks at your data and sees how viable it is for use. That's a really cool feature. Automatic assessment of the quality of datasets, to me, seems very valuable."

Cons

"One of the areas that should be similar to Minitabs is the use of blogs. The Minitabs blog helps users understand the tools and gives lots of practical examples. Following the SPSS manual is cumbersome. It's a good, exhaustive manual, but it's not practical to use. With Minitabs, you can go to the blogs and find specific articles written about various components and it's very helpful. Without blogs, we find SPSS more complicated."

"Needs more statistical modelling functions."

"The statistics should be more self-explanatory with detailed automated reports."

"In developing countries, it would be beneficial to provide certain features to users at no cost initially, while also customizing pricing options."

"Improvements are needed in the user interface, particularly in terms of user-friendliness."

"Better documentation on how to use macros."

"Perhaps in terms of visualization. It's not really easy to do some data visualization, just simple, descriptive analysis in SPSS. I think that could be an area for improvement."

"The solution needs to improve forecasting using time series analysis."

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"The interface could be improved. Other solutions, like Visual Studio, have much better UI."

"I think that the framework can be improved to make it easier for people to discover and use things on their own."

"Having a small guide or video on the tool would help learn how to use it and what the features are."

"The ability to schedule scripts for the building and monitoring of jobs would be an advantage for this platform."

"It also takes up a lot of space."

"One feature that I would like to see is being able to use a different language in a different cell, which would allow me to mix R and Python together."

"Anaconda should be optimized for RAM consumption."

"A lot of people and companies are investing in creating automated data cleaning and processing environments. Anaconda is a bit behind in that area."

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"Something they are working on, which is great, is to have an API that can access data directly from the source. Currently, we have to create a specific dataset for each model."

"The challenge is very big toward making models operational or to industrialize them. E.g., what we want to do is to make unique credit models for each customer. So, we are preparing the types of customers who we can try new credit models on Darwin. But, I see this still very challenging to be able to get the data sets so Darwin can work. At this point, we are working it to get the data sets ready for Darwin."

"The Read Me's and the tutorials need to be greatly improved to get customers to understand how things work. It might be helpful to have some sample data sets for people to play around with, as well as some tutorial videos. It was very hard to find information on this in the time crunch that we had, to see how it worked and then make it work, while interfacing with folks at SparkCognition."

"There are issues around the ethics of artificial intelligence and machine learning. You need to have a lot of transparency regarding what is going on under the hood in order to trust it. Because so much is done under the hood of Darwin, it is hard to trust how it gets the answers it gets."

"There's always room for improvement in the UI and continuing to evolve it to do everything that the rest of AI can do."

"An area where Darwin might be a little weak is its automatic assessment of the quality of datasets. The first results it produces in this area are good, but in our experience, we have found that extra analysis is needed to produce an extra-clean set of data."

"The analyze function takes a lot of time."

"Our main data repository is on AWS. The trouble we are having is that we have to download the data from our repository to bring it into Darwin. It would be great if there was an API to connect our repository to Darwin."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We think that IBM SPSS is expensive for this function."

"While the pricing of the product may be higher, the accompanying service and features justify the investment."

"The price of this solution is a little bit high, which was a problem for my company."

"More affordable training for new staff members."

"The price of IBM SPSS Statistics could improve."

"If it requires lot of data processing, maybe switching to IBM SPSS Clementine would be better for the buyer."

"It's quite expensive, but they do a special deal for universities."

"SPSS is an expensive piece of software because it's incredibly complex and has been refined over decades, but I would say it's fairly priced."

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"The tool is open-source."

"My company uses the free version of the tool. There is also a paid version of the tool available."

"The licensing costs for Anaconda are reasonable."

"The product is open-source and free to use."

"Anaconda is free to use, but in terms of hardware costs, you might need heavy GPUs to run CUDA and other demanding tasks."

"As far as I understand, my company is not paying anything to use the product."

"I believe our cost is $1,000 per month."

"The license cost is not cheap, especially not for markets like Mexico. But sometimes, you do have to make these leap of faith for some tools to see if they can get you the disruption that you are aiming for. The investment has paid off for us very well."

"In just six months, we calculated six million pesos that we have prevented in revenue from going away with another customer because of this solution. Thanks to Darwin, we didn't lose those six million pesos."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

16%

University

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

University

Computer Software Company

24%

Government

12%

Real Estate/Law Firm

12%

Educational Organization

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM SPSS Statistics?

The software offers consistency across multiple research projects helping us with predictive analytics capabilities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM SPSS Statistics?

While the pricing of the product may be higher, the accompanying service and features justify the investment. However...

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What needs improvement with IBM SPSS Statistics?

In some cases, the product takes time to load a large dataset. They could improve this particular area.

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What do you like most about Anaconda?

The tool's most valuable feature is its cloud-based nature, allowing accessibility from anywhere. Additionally, using...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Anaconda?

Anaconda does not require a pricing structure, and it is available as an open-source tool. The features of Python, Ju...

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What needs improvement with Anaconda?

Anaconda consumes a significant amount of processing memory when working on it. This is something that needs improvem...

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Overview

IBM SPSS Statistics is a powerful data mining solution that is designed to aid business leaders in making important business decisions. It is designed so that it can be effectively utilized by organizations across a wide range of fields. SPSS Statistics allows users to leverage machine learning algorithms so that they can mine and analyze data in the most effective way possible.

IBM SPSS Statistics Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy IBM SPSS Statistics include:

Ease of use. SPSS Statistics enables users to simply and intuitively take control of their statistical needs. The solution is designed so that analysts who do not know how to code can easily make full use of the various tools and capabilities that SPSS Statistics has to offer. Its command language is so straightforward that it does not require users to undergo special training before they use it.

Comprehensive and flexible build. SPSS Statistics is designed to be both a comprehensive and highly flexible analytics solution. It enables users to utilize a variety of integrations that make it easy for users to add features that they might feel they are missing.

Automation. SPSS Statistics makes it simple for users to automate basic tasks that they might otherwise devote too much time worrying about. Tasks like calculation or data gathering can be delegated to the system while more conceptual tasks like data analysis are given to an organization’s analysts to handle.

IBM SPSS Statistics Features

Intuitive user interface. SPSS Statistics enables users to deploy an intuitive interface that makes the process of system management simple. Among the other components of this interface is a drag-and-drop feature that makes analysis and management possible for anyone who wants to use it.

Advanced data visualizations. Analysts that employ SPSS Statistics gain access to tools that empower them to create and export data visualizations. These visualizations can be formatted in many different ways depending on what the user needs.

Local data storage. SPSS Statistics has the ability to securely store data on a user’s computer. This enables them to add layers of security that would not necessarily be present if the data was stored in the cloud.

Reviews from Real Users

IBM SPSS Statistics is a highly effective solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two major advantages it offers are the wealth of functionalities that it provides and its high level of accessibility.

An Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at a university writes, "The most valuable feature of IBM SPSS Statistics is all the functionality it provides. Additionally, it is simple to do the five-way analysis that you can in a multidimensional setup space. It's the multidimensional space facility that is most useful."

A Director of Systems Management & MIS Operations at a university, says, “The SPSS interface is very accessible and user-friendly. It's really easy to get information from it. I've shared it with experts and beginners, and everyone can navigate it.”

Anaconda makes it easy for you to install and maintain Python environments. Our development team tests to ensure compatibility of Python packages in Anaconda. We support and provide open source assurance for packages in Anaconda to mitigate your risk in using open source and meet your regulatory compliance requirements.

Python is the fastest growing language for data science. Anaconda includes 720+ Python open source packages and now includes essential R packages. This powerful combination allows you to do everything you want from BI to advanced modeling on complex Big Data

SparkCognition builds leading artificial intelligence solutions to advance the most important interests of society. We help customers analyze complex data, empower decision making, and transform human and industrial productivity with award-winning machine learning technology and expert teams focused on defense, IIoT, and finance.

Sample Customers

LDB Group, RightShip, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Capgemini Consulting, TEAC Corporation, Ironside, nViso SA, Razorsight, Si.mobil, University Hospitals of Leicester, CROOZ Inc., GFS Fundraising Solutions, Nedbank Ltd., IDS-TILDA

LinkedIn, NASA, Boeing, JP Morgan, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, DARPA, Microsoft, Amazon, HP, Cisco, Thomson Reuters, IBM, Bridgestone

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