Nowadays, Data Mining is used everywhere for extracting information from the data and in turn, acquires knowledge for decision making. Data Mining analyzes patterns which are used to extract information and knowledge for making decisions. Many open source and licensed tools like Weka, RapidMiner, KNIME, and Orange are available for Data Mining and predictive analysis. This paper discusses about different tools available for Data Mining and Machine Learning, followed by the description, pros and cons of these tools. The article provides details of all the algorithms like classification, regression, characterization, discretization, clustering, visualization and feature selection for Data Mining and Machine Learning tools. It will help people for efficient decision making and suggests which tool is suitable according to their requirement.

Data mining can be performed by number of ways. Classification is one of them. Classification is a data mining technique that assigns items to a predefined categories or classes or labels. The aim of classification is to predict the target class for the inputted data. On the other hand biology inspired algorithms such as Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Swarm based approaches like Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colonies Optimization (ACO) were used in solving many data mining problems and currently the most prominent choice in the area of swarm intelligence. In this paper binary classification is considered as an area of problem and a modified AntMiner is used to solve the problem. The basic algorithm of AntMiner has been modified with a different classification accuracy function.

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