We performed a comparison between Darwin and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Science Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution helps with the automatic assessment of the quality of datasets, such as missing data points or incorrect data types."
"I liked the data checking feature where it looks at your data and sees how viable it is for use. That's a really cool feature. Automatic assessment of the quality of datasets, to me, seems very valuable."
"Darwin has increased efficiency and productivity for our company. With our risk management team, there were models that took them more than three days to process each, only to see the outcome. Now, it takes minutes for Darwin to process the current model. So, we can have it in minutes. We don't have to wait three days for all the models to be tested, then make a decision."
"The thing that I find most valuable is the ability to clean the data."
"In terms of streamlining a lot of the low-level data science work, it does a few things there."
"The most valuable feature is the model-generation. With a nice dataset, Darwin gives you a nice model. That's a really nice feature because, if we're doing that ourselves, it's trial and error; we change the parameters a little and try again. We save time by just giving the dataset to Darwin and letting Darwin generate a model. We find the models it generates are good; better than we can generate."
"I find it quite simple to use. Once you are trained on the model, you can use it anyway you want."
"The key feature is the automated model-building. It has a good UI that will let people who aren't data scientists get in there and upload datasets and actually start building models, with very little training. They don't need to have any understanding of data science."
"The solution is very easy to use, so far as our data scientists are concerned."
"The solution is very fast and simple for a data science solution."
"Split dataset, variety of algorithms, visualizing the data, and drag and drop capability are the features I appreciate most."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Machine Learning Studio for me is its convenience. I can quickly start using it without setting up the environment or buying a lot of devices."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is the ease of use for starting projects. It's simple to connect and view the results. Additionally, the solution works well with other Microsoft solutions, such as Power Automate or SQL Server. It is easy to use and to connect for analytics."
"The most valuable feature is its compatibility with Tensorflow."
"One of the notable advantages is that it offers both a visual designer, which is user-friendly, and an advanced coding option."
"Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is easy to use and deploy."
"Something they are working on, which is great, is to have an API that can access data directly from the source. Currently, we have to create a specific dataset for each model."
"There are issues around the ethics of artificial intelligence and machine learning. You need to have a lot of transparency regarding what is going on under the hood in order to trust it. Because so much is done under the hood of Darwin, it is hard to trust how it gets the answers it gets."
"The Read Me's and the tutorials need to be greatly improved to get customers to understand how things work. It might be helpful to have some sample data sets for people to play around with, as well as some tutorial videos. It was very hard to find information on this in the time crunch that we had, to see how it worked and then make it work, while interfacing with folks at SparkCognition."
"The challenge is very big toward making models operational or to industrialize them. E.g., what we want to do is to make unique credit models for each customer. So, we are preparing the types of customers who we can try new credit models on Darwin. But, I see this still very challenging to be able to get the data sets so Darwin can work. At this point, we are working it to get the data sets ready for Darwin."
"An area where Darwin might be a little weak is its automatic assessment of the quality of datasets. The first results it produces in this area are good, but in our experience, we have found that extra analysis is needed to produce an extra-clean set of data."
"Our main data repository is on AWS. The trouble we are having is that we have to download the data from our repository to bring it into Darwin. It would be great if there was an API to connect our repository to Darwin."
"There's always room for improvement in the UI and continuing to evolve it to do everything that the rest of AI can do."
"The analyze function takes a lot of time."
"In terms of improvement, I'd like to have more ability to construct and understand the detailed impact of the variables on the model. Their algorithms are very powerful and they explain overall the net contribution of each of the variables to the solution. In terms of being able to say to people "If you did this, you'll get this much more improvement" it wasn't great."
"The data processor can pose a bit of a challenge, but the real complexity is determined by the skill of the implementation team."
"Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio could improve in providing more efficient and cost-effective access to its tools for companies like mine."
"There should be data access security, a role level security. Right now, they don't offer this."
"The price could be improved."
"Operability with R could be improved."
"One area where Azure Machine Learning Studio could improve is its user interface structure."
"It would be nice if the product offered more accessibility in general."
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Darwin is ranked 27th in Data Science Platforms while Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is ranked 2nd in Data Science Platforms with 51 reviews. Darwin is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Darwin writes "Empowers SMEs to build solutions and interface them with the existing business systems, products and workflows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio writes "Good support for Azure services in pipelines, but deploying outside of Azure is difficult". Darwin is most compared with Databricks and IBM Watson Studio, whereas Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is most compared with Google Vertex AI, Databricks, Azure OpenAI, TensorFlow and Google Cloud AI Platform. See our Darwin vs. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio report.
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