KDnuggets Poll -Is Rapid Miner 3 times more used as SAS

16th annual KDnuggets Software Poll continued to get huge attention from analytics and data mining community and vendors, attracting about 2,800 voters, who chose from a record number of 93 different tools.

from

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/poll-r-rapidminer-python-big-data-spark.html

What seems a rather disquieting sampling error-

RapidMiner remains the most popular suite for data mining/data science, but it got fewer votes than last year

The top 10 tools by share of users were

1. R, 46.9% share ( 38.5% in 2014)

2. RapidMiner, 31.5% ( 44.2% in 2014)

3. SQL, 30.9% ( 25.3% in 2014)

4. Python, 30.3% ( 19.5% in 2014)

5. Excel, 22.9% ( 25.8% in 2014)

6. KNIME, 20.0% ( 15.0% in 2014)

7. Hadoop, 18.4% ( 12.7% in 2014)

8. Tableau, 12.4% ( 9.1% in 2014)

9. SAS, 11.3 (10.9% in 2014)

I really dont think Rapid Miner has three times SAS users. I have no doubts on the credibility of the poll but there seems either sampling bias or something plain wrong here

!!!!

and 44.2 % of users used Rapid Miner last year ( I dont think one in two data miners uses Rapid Miner)

So there is some error here- or maybe different ways of counting a user or not!!

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