Transcript AGPL open source

Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Toolkit
December 2013, Jakub Miarka, University of Leeds
RAPIDMINER
• Formerly called YALE (Yet Another Language Environment)
• Environment for machine learning, data and text mining, predictive and
business analytics
• Started in 2001 at the Artificial Intelligence Unit of the Dortmund University of
Technology, Germany
• 2006 – Rapid-I founded
• AGPL open source license until November 2013
• Profitable company, growing organically
• 3 millions downloads / 200,000 users
• One of the leaders in the predictive analytics
USAGE
• GUI for building data mining/analytics workflows
• Highly scalable predictive analytics application
• Learning schemes and attribute evaluators from WEKA
• Integrates with popular enterprise data sources (60+, incl. SAP)
• Supports both structured and unstructured data
• Typically used for:
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customer segmentation
loyalty and retention analysis
credit ratings
asset maintenance
resource planning
A pie chart showing aggregated information
Multiple results displayed simultaneously
BENEFITS
• No programming skills needed and easy to use (GUI, drag & drop…)
• 1000+ analytical methods
• 120+ models incl. decision trees and dozens of visualisations available
• Powerful and scalable
• Flexible, scriptable, supports plugins and extensions
• Provides a GUI to design an analytical pipeline (the "operator tree") which
defines the analytical processes the user wishes to apply to the data
• Other applications can use the engine through API
POPULARITY
• Suitable for individuals and large enterprises as well
• Some of the customers:
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PayPal
PepsiCo
eBay
Volkswagen
Lufthansa
… and many more
NOVEMBER 2013 AND FUTURE
• $5 millions investment
• Rebranded from Rapid-I to RapidMiner
• Core stays open source but new commercial packages introduced
• When a new version is published, previous ones become free
• In future, increased focus on Big Data and self-service-style interface for less
technical and more business-focused users
• A vision to become the industry standard for predictive analytics
REFERENCES
http://rapidminer.com/products/rapidminer-studio/
http://sourceforge.net/p/rapidminer/wiki/Home/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidMiner
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/04/german-predictive-analytics-startup-rapid-i-rebrands-as-rapidminer-takes-5m-from-open-ocean-earlybird-to-tackle-the-u-s-market/
http://www.zdnet.com/rapid-i-gets-funded-re-brands-as-rapidminer-7000022757/