We performed a comparison between IBM SPSS Modeler and MathWorks Matlab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The ease of use in the user interface is the best part of it. The ability to customize some of my streams with R and Python has been very useful to me, I've automated a few things with that."
"Automated modelling, classification, or clustering are very useful."
"Our business units' capabilities with SPSS Modeler is high. They no longer waste time on modeling and algorithms, meaning they are not coding any more. For example, segmentation projects now take one to three months, rather than six months to a year, as before."
"It helped me in that I didn't need to write them by hand, and I could get a result in one or two minutes. That helped me a lot."
"We use analytics with the visual modeling capability to leverage productivity improvements."
"It handles large data better than the previous system that we were using, which was basically Excel and Access. We serve upwards of 300,000 parts over a 150 regions and we need to crunch a lot of numbers."
"It scales. I have not run into any challenges where it will not perform."
"Personally for me, because I do a lot of development, I like that it is easy to test mathematical algorithms with several matrix calculations. It's perfect for that."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the Simulink environment. This feature provides an incredible capability to visually represent the system behavior before creating the code. It allows you to see the flow and interactions of the system, which is extremely beneficial for software development. With this visual representation, you can better understand the system's behavior, make necessary adjustments, and ensure maintenance and updates. This capability is why I love working with the product."
"The biggest issue with the visual modeling capability is that we can't extract the SQL code under the hood."
"When you are not using the product, such as during the pandemic where we had worldwide lockdowns, you still have to pay for the licensing."
"Initial setup of the software was complex, because of our own problems within the government."
"Dimension reduction should be classified separately."
"Time Series or forecasting needs to be easier. It is a very important feature, and it should be made easier and more automated to use. For instance, for logistic regression, binary or multinomial is used automatically based on the type of the target variable. I wish they can make Time Series easier to use in a similar way."
"The product does not have a search function for tags."
"The challenge for the very technical data scientists: It is constraining for them."
"I understand that it takes some time to incorporate some of the new algorithms that have come out in the last few months, in the literature. For example, there is an algorithm based on how ants search for food. And there are some algorithms that have now been developed to complement rules. So that's one of the things that we need to have incorporated into it."
"In the area of improvement, sometimes there are issues with the speed of MathWorks Matlab, particularly in the Simulink environment. The tool's latest versions can be slow to open, taking significant time to load. Additionally, saving data and integrating models can also be time-consuming processes."
"To make use of the GPU, you have to have an Nvidia card. What I would want it to do is to run in Next Generation with Intel or AMD, and not just with Nvidia."
IBM SPSS Modeler is ranked 12th in Data Science Platforms with 38 reviews while MathWorks Matlab is ranked 22nd in Data Science Platforms with 2 reviews. IBM SPSS Modeler is rated 8.0, while MathWorks Matlab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM SPSS Modeler writes "Easy to use, quick to learn, and offers many ways to analyze data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MathWorks Matlab writes "Has Simulink feature which helps with visual representations ". IBM SPSS Modeler is most compared with KNIME, Microsoft Power BI, RapidMiner, IBM SPSS Statistics and Alteryx, whereas MathWorks Matlab is most compared with IBM SPSS Statistics, Databricks, Anaconda, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and TIBCO Data Science.
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