2. INTRODUCTION
Orange is a collection of Python-based modules
that sit over the core library of C++ objects and
routines that handles machine learning and data
mining algorithms.
It is an open source.
Orange widgets provide a graphical users
interface to Oranges data mining and machine
learning methods.
3. FEATURES OF ORANGE
Open and free software: Orange is an open
source and free data mining software tool.
Platform independent software: Orange is
supported on various versions of Linux, Microsoft
windows, and Apple Mac.
Programming support: Orange supports visual
programming tools for Data mining.
Scripting Interface: Orange provides python
scripting.
4. ORANGE DEVELOPMENTS
In1997-developed in Bioinformatics Laboratory
of the Faculty of Computer and Information
Science, Slovenia.
In 2005- extents data analysis in bioinformatics
In 2008- installation packages were developed.
In 2009- over 100 widgets were created and
maintained.
5. WHY USE ORANGE ?
No programming needed - Visual programming
Data visualization
Easy to try different machine learning algorithms
Add-ons for : bioinformatics, network analysis,
text mining.
Free and open source software
