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Sharing experiments using open‐source software
Author(s) -
Nelson Adam,
Menzies Tim,
Gay Gregory
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.1004
Subject(s) - computer science , scripting language , succinctness , publication , software deployment , syntax , simplicity , software engineering , data sharing , software , debugging , data science , data mining , programming language , artificial intelligence , theoretical computer science , medicine , philosophy , alternative medicine , epistemology , pathology , advertising , business
When researchers want to repeat, improve or refute prior conclusions, it is useful to have a complete and operational description of prior experiments. If those descriptions are overly long or complex, then sharing their details may not be informative. OURMINE is a scripting environment for the development and deployment of data mining experiments. Using OURMINE, data mining novices can specify and execute intricate experiments, while researchers can publish their complete experimental rig alongside their conclusions. This is achievable because of OURMINE's succinctness. For example, this paper presents two experiments documented in the OURMINE syntax. Thus, the brevity and simplicity of OURMINE recommends it as a better tool for documenting, executing, and sharing data mining experiments. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.