IBM SPSS Modeler vs Weka comparison

"I was familiar with using IBM SPSS Modeler separately in the private sector before that. It's a good tool for extracting data from data warehouses, creating streams, and manipulating logic to extract final data."

"Compared to other tools, the product works much easier to analyze data without coding."

"We have full control of the data handling process."

"A lot of jobs that are stuck in Excel due to the huge numbers of rows are tackled pretty quickly."

"I think the code modeling features are the most valuable and without the need to write a code back with many different possibilities to choose from. And the second one is linked to the activity of the data preparation."

"Extremely easy to use, it offers a generous selection of proprietary machine learning algorithms."

"Automated modelling, classification, or clustering are very useful."

"It helped me in that I didn't need to write them by hand, and I could get a result in one or two minutes. That helped me a lot."

"Weka's best features are its user-friendly graphic interface interpretation of data sets and the ease of analyzing data."

"I like the machine algorithm for clustering systems. Weka has larger capabilities. There are multiple algorithms that can be used for clustering. It depends upon the user requirements. For clustering, I've used DBSCAN, whereas for supervised learning, I've used AVM and RFT."

"I mainly use this solution for the regression tree, and for its association rules. I run these two methodologies for Weka."

"With clustering, if it's a yes, it's a yes, if it's a no, it's a no. It gives you a 100% level of accuracy of a model that has been trained, and that is in most cases, usually misleading. Classification is highly valuable when done as opposed to clustering."

"In Weka, anyone can access the program without being a programmer, which is a good feature since the entry cost is very low."

"Weka is a very nice tool, it needs very small requirements. If I want to implement something in Python, I need a lot of memory and space but Weka is very lightweight. Anyone can implement any kind of algorithm, and we can show the results immediately to the client using the one-page feature. The client always wants to know the story. They want the result."

"It doesn’t cost anything to use the product."

"Weka eliminates the need for coding, allowing you to easily set parameters and complete the majority of the machine learning task with just a few clicks."

"I would like see more programming languages added, like MATLAB. That would be better."

"The time series should be improved."

"Time Series or forecasting needs to be easier. It is a very important feature, and it should be made easier and more automated to use. For instance, for logistic regression, binary or multinomial is used automatically based on the type of the target variable. I wish they can make Time Series easier to use in a similar way."

"The platform's cloud version needs improvements."

"It would be beneficial if the tool would include more well-known machine learning algorithms."

"The standard package (personal) is not supported for database connection."

"C&DS will not meet our scalability needs."

"It is not integrated with Qlik, Tableau, and Power BI."

"The product is good, but I would like it to work with big data. I know it has a Spark integration they could use to do analysis in clusters, but it's not so clear how to use it."

"Within the basic Weka tool, I don't see many tools that are available where we can analyze and visualize the data that well."

"Not particularly user friendly."

"I believe is there are a few newer algorithms that are not present in the Weka libraries. Whereas, for example, if I want to have a solution that involves deep learning, so I don't think that Weka has that capability. So in that case I have to use Python for ... predict any algorithms based on deep learning."

"The visualization of Weka is subpar and could improve. Machine learning and visualization do not work well together. For example, we want to know how we can we delete empty cells or how can we fill in the empty cells without cleaning the data system and putting it together."

"Weka could be more stable."

"If you have one missing value in your dataset and this missing value belongs to a specific attribute and the attribute is a numeric attribute and there is only one missing data, whenever you import this data, the problem is that Weka cannot understand that this is a numeric field. It converts everything into a string, and there is no way to convert the string into numerical math. It's really very complicated."

"In terms of scalability, I think Weka is not prepared to handle a large number of users."

"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."

"Its price is okay for a company, but for personal use, it is considered somewhat expensive."

"The government has funds and a budget, it's hard to say if it's expensive or cheap. In Canada, they have a yearly budget. They used to encourage people to use the modeler for development. If ten users use the server with ten licenses, it runs faster. But if forty users use the same appliance, everything slows down. People then think it's not easy to do things and prefer using remote tools like Python to extract data from the database. It's not about being expensive or cheap, but about people's knowledge and experience in how to do the work."

"It is a huge increase to time savings."

"If you are in a university and the license is free then you can use the tool without any charges, which is good."

"This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive."

"$5,000 annually."

"Having in mind all four tools from Garner’s top quadrant, the pricing of this tool is competitive and it reflects the quality that it offers."

"The solution is free and open-source."

"We use the free version now. My faculty is very small."

"Currently, I am using an open-source version so I don't know much about the price of this solution."

"As far as I know, Weka is a freeware tool, and I am not aware if they have an online solution or if it is a commercial product."