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Between the two data mining software, which is easier to use: WEKA or RDS (Rule Discovery System)?

What are the pros and cons of both software?

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Please be more specific: "easier to use" is vague and may cause unnecessary controversy or arguing. – whuber♦ Oct 5 '12 at 21:46
easier to use means for absolute beginner in data mining, which one is more user friendly. I know that WEKA is more popular than RDS, but at first glance it doesnt look very simple to use – Siga Oct 5 '12 at 21:50

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I don't really know RDS but I looked briefly through the site and I have used Weka. Some advantages of Weka:

  1. Developed by academia - I generally prefer this over private company software. One reason is that it is more transparent
  2. As far as I remember Weka has hundreds of models/combinations. RDS looks much more limited. For example I couldn't find Support Vector Machines for RDS - that is a basic for a machine learning environment. It seems to me that RDS is more based on rule-mining, which is only a small part of what Weka can do.
  3. Weka is written in Java and is easily extendible by your own models and such.

I personally found Weka very easy to use - but I haven't tried RDS so it might be easier. But I think Weka is definitely more powerful and flexible.

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thank You @Bitwise. I have tried a bit of RDS and it seemed easy to use so far but I will try to work with Weka. – Siga Oct 6 '12 at 16:53
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If you are searching for a alternative GUI for WEKA, you could try KNIME too. It is a bit more stable and offers some extra features. Personally I think KNIME is more intuitive to use than the standard WEKA GUI.

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Thank you very much :D :D. I will take a look at the KNIME link that you sent. – Siga Oct 7 '12 at 9:54

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