Introduction to Rapid Miner

RapidMiner is a software platform for machine learning, data mining, text mining, predictive analytics and business analytics. 

It is used for business and industrial applications as well as for research, education, training, rapid prototyping.

It supports all steps of the data mining process including results visualization, validation and optimization.

It is also formerly known as YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment).

RapidMiner uses a client/server model with the server offered as Software as a Service or on cloud infrastructures.

Introduction to WEKA

WEKA stands for Waikato Environment for Knowledge Learning.

It was  developed by the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

WEKA supports  many data mining tasks such as data re-processing, classification,  clustering, regression and feature selection to name a few.

The workflow of WEKA would be as follows:

Data --> Pre-processing --> Data Mining --> Knowledge