We bring you an online video tutorial on RapidMiner. This Germany based organization , Rapid-I , has given us one of the most popular data mining tool being used for real world data mining. Not only that it has given us several tremendous options for quickly learning this beautiful art of mining data through online video tutorials. RapidMiner Community Edition is free for non-commercial use and suitable for data mining beginners.

The first video (YouTube) gives us a good idea about the initial stages of mining data like to import training and prediction data, to add a classification learner and then to apply the model.

The second video shows you how to use a cross and simple validation operator to split your training data into two sets: training and validation data sets.

The third video shows you how to create a decision tree to help us find “sweet spots” in a particular market segment. This video tutorial uses the Rapidminer direct mail marketing data generator and a split validation operator to build the decision tree.

After going through these videos, we are sure you will now be able to ease your way into RapidMiner.