data mining tools / orange

ORANGE TOOLS

INTRODUCTION

Orange is a collection of Python-based modules that sit over the core library of C++ objects and routines that handles machine learning and data mining algorithms.

It is an open source.

Orange widgets provide a graphical users interface to Oranges data mining and machine learning methods.

FEATURES OF ORANGE

Open and free software: Orange is an opensource and free data mining software tool.

Platform independent software: Orange is supported on various versions of Linux, Microsoft windows, and Apple Mac.

Programming support: Orange supports visualprogramming tools for Data mining.

Scripting Interface: Orange provides pythonscripting.

ORANGE DEVELOPMENTS

In1997-developed in Bioinformatics Laboratoryof the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Slovenia.

In 2005- extents data analysis in bioinformatics

In 2008- installation packages were developed.

In 2009- over 100 widgets were created andmaintained.

WHY USE ORANGE ?

No programming needed - Visual programming

Data visualization

Easy to try different machine learning algorithms

Add-ons for : bioinformatics, network analysis, text mining.

Free and open source software

INSTALLING FOR WINDOWS

Browse the URI : http://orange.biolab.si/