• S .NANTHINI DEVI
• G.SATHISH

Today Information Technology plays a vital role in every aspects of the human life. It is very essential to gather data from different sources. This data can be stored and maintained to generate information and knowledge. This information and knowledge has to be disseminated to every stake holders for the effective decision making process. Due to the increase in the data, it is important to extract knowledge/information from the large data repositories. Hence, Data mining has become an essential factor in various fields including business, education, health care, finance, scientific etc.,To analyse this vast amount of data and depict the fruitful conclusions and inferences, it needs specific data mining tools such as R, Weka, Orange. This paper discusses the knowledge discovery process, data mining, various open source tools.

"A Study on Various Open Source Tools For Data Mining", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.622-626, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006425.pdf

"A Study on Various Open Source Tools For Data Mining", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp622-626, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006425.pdf