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RapidMiner is a data science platform that analyzes the collective impact of organizations' employees, expertise and data. It was developed starting in 2001 and acquired by Altair Engineering in 2022. RapidMiner uses a client/server model and provides data mining, machine learning, and predictive analytics procedures. It has over 400,000 users including large companies and is considered a leader in the data science platform market.

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Rapid Miner

RapidMiner is a data science platform that analyzes the collective impact of organizations' employees, expertise and data. It was developed starting in 2001 and acquired by Altair Engineering in 2022. RapidMiner uses a client/server model and provides data mining, machine learning, and predictive analytics procedures. It has over 400,000 users including large companies and is considered a leader in the data science platform market.

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RapidMiner

RapidMiner is a data science platform designed for enterprises


that analyses the collective impact of organizations’ employees,
RapidMiner
expertise and data. Rapid Miner's data science platform is intended
to support many analytics users across a broad AI lifecycle. It was
acquired by Altair Engineering in September 2022.[1]

History
RapidMiner, formerly known as YALE (Yet Another Learning Developer(s) RapidMiner
Environment), was developed starting in 2001 by Ralf Initial release 2006
Klinkenberg, Ingo Mierswa, and Simon Fischer at the Artificial
Intelligence Unit of the Technical University of Dortmund.[2] Stable release 10.1 /
Starting in 2006, its development was driven by Rapid-I, a 31 January
company founded by Ingo Mierswa and Ralf Klingenberg in the 2023
same year.[3] In 2007, the name of the software was changed from Operating system Cross-platform
YALE to RapidMiner. In 2013, the company rebranded from
Type Data science,
Rapid-I to RapidMiner.[4]
machine
learning,
Description predictive
analytics
RapidMiner uses a client/server model with the server offered
License Professional
either on-premises or in public or private cloud infrastructures.
and Enterprise
According to Bloor Research, RapidMiner provides 99% of an Editions are
advanced analytical solution through template-based frameworks Proprietary;
that speed delivery and reduce errors by nearly eliminating the Free Edition
need to write code. RapidMiner provides data mining and machine (10,000 rows
learning procedures including: data loading and transformation and 1 logical
(ETL), data preprocessing and visualization, predictive analytics
processor limit)
and statistical modeling, evaluation, and deployment. RapidMiner
is available as
is written in the Java programming language. RapidMiner provides
a GUI to design and execute analytical workflows. Those AGPL
workflows are called “Processes” in RapidMiner and they consist Website rapidminer
of multiple “Operators”. Each operator performs a single task .com (https://ra
within the process, and the output of each operator forms the input pidminer.com)
of the next one. Alternatively, the engine can be called from other
programs or used as an API. Individual functions can be called from the command line. RapidMiner
provides learning schemes, models and algorithms and can be extended using R and Python scripts.[5]

RapidMiner functionality can be extended with additional plugins which are made available via
RapidMiner Marketplace. The RapidMiner Marketplace provides a platform for developers to create data
analysis algorithms and publish them to the community.[6]
The RapidMiner Studio Free Edition, which is limited to one logical processor and 10,000 data rows, is
available under the AGPL license,[7]

Adoption
In 2019, Gartner placed RapidMiner in the leader quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Data Science &
Machine Learning Platforms for the sixth year in a row.[8] The report noted that RapidMiner provides deep
and broad modeling capabilities for automated end-to-end model development. In the 2018 annual software
poll, KD-nuggets readers voted RapidMiner as one of the most popular data analytics software with the
poll’s respondents citing the software package as the tool they use.[9] RapidMiner has received millions of
total downloads and has over 400,000 users including BMW, Intel, Cisco, GE, and Samsung as paying
customers. RapidMiner claims to be the market leader in the software for data science platforms against
competitors such as SAS and IBM.[10]

Developer
About 50 developer's worldwide participated in the development of the open source RapidMiner with the
majority of the contributors being employees of RapidMiner.[11] The company that develops RapidMiner
received a $16 million Series C funding with participation from venture capital firms Nokia Growth
Partner's, Ascent Venture Partner's, Longworth Venture Partner's, Earlybird Venture Capital and Open-
Ocean. Open-Ocean partner Michael "Monty" Widenius is a founder of MySQL.

References
1. Altair. "Altair Announces Completion of Acquisition of RapidMiner" (https://www.prnewswire.
com/news-releases/altair-announces-completion-of-acquisition-of-rapidminer-301626200.ht
ml). www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
2. Guido Deutsch, “RapidMiner from Rapid-I at CeBIT 2010 (http://www.data-mining-blog.com/
cloud-mining/rapidminer-cebit-2010/),” Data Mining Blog, March 18, 2010.
3. “Interview with RapidMiner's Ingo Mierswa, Ralf Klinkenberg (http://www.kdnuggets.com/201
0/02/f-interview-rapid-i-founders.html)”, KDnuggets, February, 2010.
4. “German Predictive Analytics Startup Rapid-I Rebrands As RapidMiner (https://techcrunch.c
om/2013/11/04/german-predictive-analytics-startup-rapid-i-rebrands-as-rapidminer-takes-5m
-from-open-ocean-earlybird-to-tackle-the-u-s-market/)”, TechCrunch, November 4, 2013.
5. David Norris, “RapidMiner - a potential game changer (http://www.bloorresearch.com/analysi
s/rapidminer-a-potential-game-changer/),” Bloor Research, November 13, 2013.
6. Ajay Ohri, “Interview with Rapid-I Ingo Mierswa and Simon Fischer (http://www.kdnuggets.co
m/2011/08/ajay-ohri-rapidminer-founder-interview.html),” KDnuggets, August 2011.
7. RapidMiner Embraces its Community and Open Source Culture Delivering Get-More-Open-
Core Predictive Analytics, September 1, 2015. (https://rapidminer.com/news-posts/rapidmine
rembracesitscommunity/)
8. "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms" (https://www.ga
rtner.com/en/documents/3899464/magic-quadrant-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-pl
a). Gartner. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
9. "Python eats away at R: Top Software for Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning in
2018: Trends and Analysis" (https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/05/poll-tools-analytics-data-s
cience-machine-learning-results.html). www.kdnuggets.com. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
10. Ingrid Lunden, “German Predictive Analytics Startup Rapid-I Rebrands As RapidMiner,
Takes $5M From Open Ocean, Earlybird To Tackle The U.S. Market,” TechCrunch,
November 4, 2013.
11. Evan Quinn, “Is Rapid-I the Hidden Giant of Analytics? (http://quinnsight.com/2013/06/17/is-r
apid-i-the-hidden-giant-of-analytics/),” QuinnSight Research, June 17, 2013.

External links
Official website (https://rapidminer.com)

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