WINDOWS UPDATE BREAKS XLMINER: Tuesday Feb. 10 Microsoft began the automatic updating of Vista and XP with a modification that breaks XLMiner. Click here to download a patch for XLMiner. If you have already downloaded and installed XLMiner, unzip this patch, and, in your Program Files/XLMiner3 folder, replace XLMiner.xla with the new file. If you downloaded XLMiner prior to 8:00 am US eastern time (UTC -5) February 13 2009, you will need to apply this patch.
Data mining in Excel: XLMiner® for Windows is the only comprehensive data mining add-in for Excel, with neural nets, classification and regression trees, logistic regression, linear regression, Bayes classifier, K-nearest neighbors, discriminant analysis, association rules, clustering, principal components, more ...
XLMiner Version 3 is now available, with new time series analysis, plus the ability to save models for later review, plus the ability to score saved models to new data.
XLMiner comes in 4 editions. All require Windows and Excel 2000, 2003 or 2007:
- Demo edition (functional 30-day web download)
- Education edition
- Professional edition
- Academic Research edition
The Academic Research edition is virtually the same as the Professional edition, except that purchasers must be on the faculty of a college or university. To learn about the capabilities of the different versions, click here.
Online course in data mining : Statistics.com offers online courses in data mining featuring, some of which illustrate the use of XLMiner. Click here for more information
New! XLMcalc. With XLMiner's new capability to save models, use XLMcalc (a separate module) to score those saved models to new data. If you own XLMiner, click here to download or purchase XLMcalc.
Suggested text: From Wiley Books, Data Mining for Business Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in Microsoft Office Excel with XLMiner, features XLMiner and provides both a theoretical and practical understanding of the key methods of classification, prediction, reduction and exploration that are at the heart of data mining. In addition, it presents a business decision-making context for these methods and uses real business cases and data to illustrate the application and interpretation of these methods.
Data Mining Add-In For Excel Are you interested in data mining, but lacking access to costly data mining tools?
Looking for a package that's comprehensive yet affordable?
XLMiner offers a full repertoire of techniques for classification, prediction, affinity analysis, data exploration, and data reduction. It is in use at
- Northrup Grumman
- National Institutes of Health
- Westing house (Savannah River)
- JD Powers
- NASA
- Bell Atlantic
- Pitney Bowes
- Centers for Disease Control
- more...
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- Monsanto
- ExxonMobil
- US Army
- FDA
- Experion
- National Inst. of Standards & Technology
- Fidelity Investments
- Blackstone Group
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The educational version (used at at MIT's Sloan School, Bowling Green State Univ., Duke's Fuqua School, Georgetown's McDonough School, Indiana Univ., UCLA's Anderson School and elsewhere), is highly affordable - as little as $49 per student. XLMiner combines Cytel's accurate and reliable algorithms (implemented as DLL's) with Excel's familiar interface and workspace, and includes facilities for sampling from and scoring to large databases. Works with Excel 2000 and later.
Read a comparative review of XLMiner (along with SAS Enterprise Miner, SPSS Clementine, GhostMiner and Quadstone) in The American Statistician, November 2003. "...easy-to-use...an excellent, inexpensive add-on that greatly expands the capabilities of Excel."
Free! 30 day trial
XLMiner Features
- Partitioning into training, validation, and test datasets
- Multiple linear regression with subset selection
- Logistic regression with subset selection
- Discriminant analysis
- Naïve Bayes classification
- Classification and regression trees
- k-Nearest neighbors
- Neural networks
- Association rules
- Principal components
- k-Means clustering
- Hierarchical clustering
- Time series
- Save models for later review
- Score saved models (separate XLMcalc module)
Developed by Cytel Software Corporation (makers of StatXact, LogXact and Egret)
Distributed by Resampling Stats, Inc.
612 N. Jackson St. Arlington, VA 22201, USA
Email sales@xlminer.com
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