ELKI Alternatives

MATLAB

MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and programming language. Maintained by The MathWorks, MATLAB allows easy matrix manipulation, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs in other languages. Although it is numeric only, an optional toolbox uses the MuPAD symbolic engine, allowing access to computer algebra capabilities.

Features:

• File-sync
• Simulink
• Batch plotting
• Embedded debugger

GNU Octave

Octave is a computer program for performing numerical computations which is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It is part of the GNU Project. It is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments.

R (programming language)

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.

Features:

• Automatic data loading
• Data Mining

Sage

Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface. Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.

Scilab

Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is an open source software and includes hundreds of mathematical functions with the possibility to add interactively programs from various languages (C, C++, Fortran…). It has sophisticated data structures (including lists, polynomials, rational functions, linear systems...), an interpreter and a high level programming language.

SciPy & Numpy

SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It is also the name of a very popular conference on scientific programming with Python. The SciPy library depends on NumPy, which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation.

Julia

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.

Features:

• Automatic JIT compilation on code change
• Compiled Language
• Compiler
• Parallel Computing

Orange

Orange is an open-source, cross-platform data mining and machine learning suite. It features visual programming as intuitive means of combining data analysis and interactive visualization methods into powerful workflows. Visual programming enables users who are not programmers to manage, preprocess, explore and model data. With many functionalities aboard, this software can make data mining and machine learning easier for novice and expert users.

Features:

• Visual Programming
• Data science
• Gui
• Interactive Visualization
• Machine Learning
• Plugins
• Python-based
• Text Analytics
• Data Mining
• Flow diagram visualisation

KNIME

Knime is a java open-source, cross-platform application which name means "Konstanz Information Miner". It is actually used extensively for data mining, data analysis and optimization. It can be downloaded as the core application itself(Knime Desktop), or the whole SDK which is based on Eclipse Helios. The knime software can also work with different kinds of extensions which are embedded into the "/downloads/extensions" tabs of the website.

Features:

• Data Mining
• Machine Learning
• Neural network

RapidMiner

RapidMiner (Community edition) is a data mining software. It was formerly known as "YALE". You can use RapidMiner as a stand-alone application for data analysis, or integrate it as a data-mining engine into your own products.

Features:

• Data Mining
• Machine Learning
• Predictive Modeling