SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR TEACHING UNDERGRADUATE DATA MINING COURSE

Data mining, a growingly popular field in Computer Science, is the transformation of large amounts of data into meaningful patterns and rules.Recent studies have noted the rise of data mining as a career path with increasing opportunities for graduates.Data mining introduces new challenges for faculty in universities who teach courses in this area.One of the main challenges for faculty would be to identify which software tool to use to introduce this subject in a one semester undergraduate course.In this paper, we compare and contrast three popular commercial and three popular open source tools that are available for faculty.