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7 days ago
Contributed a review of Google Gemini: Acts as a reliable intelligent assistant for literature and query tasks
2 months ago
Contributed a review of IBM SPSS Statistics: Delivers reliable results for academic research and keeps you close to your data.
5 months ago
Contributed a review of IBM SPSS Statistics: Good for correlation, regression, and chi-squared analyses
12 months ago
Contributed a review of KNIME: Has a drag-and-drop interface and AI capabilities
About 2 years ago
Contributed a review of KNIME: Simple to learn, useful no code platform, and quick and efficient
Over 2 years ago
Answered a question: What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM SPSS Statistics?
Easy to use and powerful.
Over 2 years ago
Contributed a review of IBM SPSS Statistics: Highly reliable, plenty of features, and simple five-way analysis
Almost 3 years ago
Contributed a review of IBM SPSS Statistics: Is stable, easy to install, and can handle large datasets
About 3 years ago
Contributed a review of KNIME: Allows you to easily tidy up your data, make lots of changes internally, and has good machine learning
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: When evaluating Message Queue, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?
I have not used it - sorry
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What Data Science Platform is best suited to a large-scale enterprise?
I suspect that I cannot answer this. I have used Knime and RapidMiner with data sets that have had up to about 80,000 rows and 1,500 columns and both have performed well. However, I doubt whether the questioner would classify my usage as "large amounts of data". If my usage…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What is the easiest to use analytics platform?
I have found both Knime and RapidMiner easy to use and powerful. That applies to producing numerical output, graphical representations, and PMML files. The latter helps if one wishes to produce diagnostic or recommender systems automatically, with no human intervention…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: What Data Science Platform is best suited to a large-scale enterprise?
My experience has not been on large scale systems. Not even multi-terabytes. My mult-megabytes would not help. Sorry!
About 5 years ago
Contributed a review of Altair RapidMiner: Offers good tutorials that make it easy to learn and use, with a powerful feature to compare machine learning algorithms
About 5 years ago
Answered a question: What is the biggest difference between IBM SPSS Modeler and KNIME?
I used IBM Modeler several years ago and found it to be effective, but expensive. Fortunately, it was for a commercially funded contract
For KNIME I have only used it for experimental purposes and found it rather cumbersome but powerful. It is also more cost-effective.
I…
Over 6 years ago
Answered a question: When evaluating Data Mining, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?
Safeguarding naive users against erroneous reporting from not knowing the statistical assumptions underlying a given technique i.e. I am agreeing with Nicholas Kogan
After that, the order of importance of features depends on the use, and on who the user will be. The…
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Over 3 years ago
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Application of scientific methods to social and medical problems - statistical analyses, expert systems, machine learning. I have developed a number of novel methods of making social research replicable.
Specialties: Data analysis, SPSS, Answer Tree, STAS, various rule-based and case-based expert system packages (they change over time as the technology develops)
