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What is DataRobot?

The DataRobot AI Platform is presented as a solution that accelerates and democratizes data science by automating the end-to-end journey from data to value and allows users to deploy AI applications at scale. DataRobot provides a centrally governed platform that…

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DataRobot delivers

8 out of 10
August 17, 2022
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  • Automated Machine Learning (54)
    9.3
    93%
  • Single platform for multiple model development (51)
    9.0
    90%
  • Automatic Data Format Detection (51)
    8.4
    84%
  • Visualization (51)
    8.0
    80%

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What is DataRobot?

The DataRobot AI Platform is presented as a solution that accelerates and democratizes data science by automating the end-to-end journey from data to value and allows users to deploy AI applications at scale. DataRobot provides a centrally governed platform that gives users AI to drive business…

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Features

Platform Connectivity

Ability to connect to a wide variety of data sources

7.1
Avg 8.5

Data Exploration

Ability to explore data and develop insights

7.9
Avg 8.4

Data Preparation

Ability to prepare data for analysis

7.7
Avg 8.2

Platform Data Modeling

Building predictive data models

8.6
Avg 8.5

Model Deployment

Tools for deploying models into production

8.3
Avg 8.6
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Product Details

What is DataRobot?

The DataRobot AI Platform is presented as a solution that accelerates and democratizes data science by automating the end-to-end journey from data to value and allows users to deploy AI applications at scale. DataRobot provides a centrally governed platform that gives users AI to drive business outcomes, that is available on the user's cloud platform-of-choice, on-premise, or as a fully-managed service.

The solutions include tools providing data preparation enabling users to explore and shape data in preparation for machine learning, automate machine learning, deploy, monitor, manage, and govern all AI models (i.e. MLOps), and the ability to generate time series models that predict the future values of a data series based on its history and trend.

DataRobot AI Platform extends the user's data science expertise with automation and aims to give unlimited flexibility for both data science experts and non-technical users to succeed with AI.

DataRobot Features

Platform Connectivity Features

  • Supported: Connect to Multiple Data Sources
  • Supported: Extend Existing Data Sources
  • Supported: Automatic Data Format Detection
  • Supported: MDM Integration

Data Exploration Features

  • Supported: Visualization
  • Supported: Interactive Data Analysis

Data Preparation Features

  • Supported: Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment
  • Supported: Data Transformations
  • Supported: Data Encryption
  • Supported: Built-in Processors

Platform Data Modeling Features

  • Supported: Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools
  • Supported: Automated Machine Learning
  • Supported: Single platform for multiple model development
  • Supported: Self-Service Model Delivery

Model Deployment Features

  • Supported: Flexible Model Publishing Options
  • Supported: Security, Governance, and Cost Controls

Additional Features

  • Supported: Automated Time Series
  • Supported: Cloud-Hosted Notebooks
  • Supported: Data Preparation
  • Supported: Feature discovery
  • Supported: MLOps
  • Supported: No Code AI App Builder
  • Supported: AI Apps
  • Supported: Decision Flows
  • Supported: Bias Testing and Monitoring
  • Supported: Compliance Documentation and Prediction Explanations
  • Supported: Anomaly Detection
  • Supported: Data Prep Automation
  • Supported: Bringing together any type of data from any source
  • Supported: Demand Forecasting

DataRobot Screenshots

Screenshot of Decision FlowsScreenshot of No Code App BuilderScreenshot of AI AppsScreenshot of Automated Time SeriesScreenshot of MLOpsScreenshot of Model InsightsScreenshot of Visual AIScreenshot of Prediction ExplanationsScreenshot of Bias and FairnessScreenshot of Cloud-Hosted NotebooksScreenshot of Data PreparationScreenshot of Location AI

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DataRobot Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

DataRobot starts at $0.

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Reviewers rate Automated Machine Learning highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of DataRobot are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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December 01, 2023

DataRobot for finance

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use automodelling (typically OTV binary regression), EDA tools and deployments.
  • The interface is excellent - fast enough to use for development, easy to share insights with business users, etc.
  • Automodelling is more than sufficient for our needs, performance and explainability are both great
  • Support is excellent
  • It would be great to have API documentation linked/generated/templated from the UI, for API noobs like me
  • Small things like being able to pre-calculate feature effects for top x / all models when automodelling would be nice
Well suited to regression and forecasting.
December 01, 2023

DataRobot is a great ROI

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DataRobot to generate Machine Learning models that inform the user experience on our website. The predictions are real-time. I have been most impressed with the simplicity in deploying models.
  • Expert Technical Support
  • Easy Deployment
  • Documentation can sometimes be hard to find.
DataRobot is great for data scientists to allow them to work faster. But the simplicity in creating models could hurt a company if someone doesn't understand the model.
Ross Skelton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Data Robot to design a machine learning algorithm that profiled employee's work environment and absenteeism behaviour (as well as other market factors) to determine if they matched the profile of those employees who had left before us. We were able to use this information to understand the emerging turnover risk of our employees across our various facilities, managers, states and tenures.<br><br>The result allowed us to target our HR initiatives, provide additional training and support to staff and managers, and implement out of the box solutions to newly discovered issues resulting in turnover. It also allowed us to confirm and quantify the impact of different drivers on turnover, which in turn let us prioritise our responses. Finally, we were able to use the models to estimate the impact on turnover and costs a change initiative might cause by looking at the historical impact of initiatives run by our individual sites and/or how difference between a variable had impacted turnover previously.<br><br>Having access to data scientists and project management staff to help design, understand, train and utilize, identify use cases and design the change process was the highlight of their service.
  • Supporting its users to identify and execute on use cases
  • Building internal capability
  • Providing a powerful tool that simplifies the end to end machine learning process.
  • Some of the UI takes some time to get around (look for orange text)
  • The idea of "machine learning" citizen is a bit of a stretch. But they empower your analysts
Data Robot is a powerful tool for greatly reducing the time required to build powerful and accurate machine learning models. It then allows you to utilize these items.

It is probably most appropriate for organisations looking to get into data science and incorporate Machine learning and AI into their decision making. Having dedicated resources that can be upskilled is perfect, as the expertise and software provided allows for a big jump from willing to able.

For the to work effectively, organisations should really consider dedicating at least one resource to the ML and AI projects, and understsand that not every project will yield fruit. A lot of this is innovation and experimentation, so relying on data Robots insights in make or break situations is not recommended. You also need to manage expectations well as the data you have may simply not allow for a powerful model.

Finally, the organisation must be open to change, this has to exist in tandem with the above. If the organisation's key stakeholders don't want to change, all the insights in the world won't help. So a willingness and ability to change effectively is required to maximize ROI.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As Australia's largest radiology business, we use it as part of our sales and outreach program to identify referring doctors who we need to prioritise contact with for a variety of goals including retention and growth. The models trained and deployed on DataRobot assist with this prioritisation process. The output of the model is effectively a risk or opportunity score on how likely a doctor will either increase or decrease in referrals to our clinics if we do not check in on them.
  • autopilot for testing and ranking the suitability of multiple models
  • easy to upload observations and download the predictions with explanations
  • scalable with multiple workers to speed up the process where urgent
  • more lenience with uploaded observations when the feature tables don't fully match the feature set that the deployed model trained on. Instead of simply erroring out, provide prompts for in-place fixes.
  • null correlation analysis (how often two columns are missing values at the same time) would be very useful to help identify a different type of data relationship.
Most problems I've encountered in my career can be framed as supervised machine learning problems, and adequately solved with a fairly common workflow and popular ML model families such as xgboost and lightgbm. DataRobot is one of the most low barriers to entry but still complete solutions I have encountered. I appreciate the autopilot system and found that it is an excellent starting point for a project and in some instances running it in comprehensive mode is sufficient to arrive a deployment-ready model that can fit into a BAU. Even entry-level data scientists would be able to hit the ground running with DataRobot and produce a lot of value for their organisation. The only aspect that might limit utility is data preparation, especially domain-specific requirements and sensitive data that cannot be uploaded in a raw form to a cloud hosted service outside of Australia due to privacy concerns.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is used for building data models for scorecard monitoring in our department, Risk Management.
  • Data Modeling
  • Variable Creation
  • Connectivity with other language such as Python
  • Showing the actual algorithm, example is in Decision Tree
It is best suited to be used by Data Analytics team, especially in data modelling. It saved a lot of time since there were already recommended model to choose from.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Helping business partners optimize their marketing campaigns based on the strategic objectives of the specific campaigns.
  • Quickly provides data assessment
  • Quickly provides models for review
  • Enables informed collaboration
  • Ability to tweak projects without redoing them from scratch.
Well suited for companies with mature data sets to enable quick project creation. The product enables discovery of new features based on the impact to overall model. DataRobot is excellent at reducing time to market for modeling projects.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The DataRobot has great cloud computing and multitasking power for feeding large quantity of data. There are time series, categorical, and numerical related target variable for analysis. The whole bucket preprocessing sometimes could help you to save a lot of times. However in the real scenario it would still be better to do most of the preprocessing manually to avoid confusion regarding data type. The post parameter tuning could be more intuitive and would be better to make the replication of model result easier.
  • Computing speed
  • Running in batches
  • Shared projects
  • Post parameter tuning
  • Model result replication
The large amount of household specific data with huge feature space is great for DataRobot to run. The result visualization is also easy to follow. However it would be better if there are more NN models could be implemented if possible.
Michael Green | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DataRobot for a variety of use cases, such as automated quoting, forecasting/inventory management, and automation of machinery settings to improve manufacturing scrap rates.
  • Thorough testing & validation of models.
  • Very fast process from raw data to deployment.
  • Easy to deploy with REST API endpoints.
  • Tons of best practices baked into the platform.
  • Customization of error metrics.
  • More affordable pricing.
  • Better work-life balance for employees.
We have a variety of complex use cases in manufacturing & supply chain which require creative use of Regression and Time Series with highly engineered features. DataRobot has done training & deploying models a breeze! The Retraining functionality for deployed models is also very useful.
August 17, 2022

DataRobot delivers

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DataRobot helps us make sense of a large amount of information. Trying to predict what's going to happen is always difficult, but with DataRobot we're able to use the power of robots to do the heavy lifting for us. Let's face it — even if we could do all the complex math on our own, the time it would take would be completely prohibitive. DataRobot takes all that on, letting us get to the decision making instead of setting up models.
  • Time Series
  • Modeling
  • Awesome robot predictions
  • Flexibility of certain models
  • Time series included in general base package
  • Certain data source integration
Time series data. Honestly, there's a lot of information that gets collected over time. Using DR, it becomes easier to track what's going on and get to the point where we're predicting what's going to happen. While DR is great at the big picture stuff, a lot of times (for quick/easy answers), it's better to just do the quick math yourself.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the tool for student success. We make various predictive models for predicting the graduation and retention of our students. We use the predictions to identify at-risk students and refer them to advisors or success coaches for help. For example, if students have less than a 60% probability of graduating within four years based on the predictive model, they will get referred to an advisor for further help. During our use of the tool, we have almost doubled our 4-year graduation rate.
  • Process large amounts of data quickly.
  • Provides very accurate predictions.
  • It provides an easy way to compare the predictive value of each of the features of the model.
  • Has a good text analysis tool.
  • Further improvements to their text analysis tool, to be more like the Qualtrics text analysis tool, would be a great addition. Qualtrics has templates built into their text analysis tool for customer service, quality control, etc, and will automatically slot your text responses into categories associated with certain sub areas of those larger categories.
DataRobot is a very robust and easy-to-use tool. It can be used for practically anything. It works best in cases where you have powerful predictors that are not highly correlated with each other, and you are looking to predict a single outcome variable. If you are trying to predict multiple variables at the same time, you will have to create separate models for each one. While it does provide information about the effectiveness of each predictor, it will not give you a detailed analysis of the interactions between your variables. However, it will let you know if some variables are redundant so they can be removed.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We build predictive models with the core supervised learning product. These include attribution models, churn/retention models, segmentation models, and others. Basically, anything that can be accomplished by taking a supervised, labeled set of training data and turning it into a predictive model, we use DataRobot. We have also dabbled with unsupervised learning and time series modeling but have not purchased those packages.
  • Iterative model development
  • Fast training of a very large number of models
  • Easy deployment to their cloud solution, or export as an approximate model
  • Visualization and explanation of important model components
  • We should be able to download data sets from our own projects--after all, we uploaded them originally (and they were not stored locally; they were created specifically for a DataRobot project).
  • The sales team is very aggressive at pushing features that we would never use, such as data hygiene (clunky integration of Paxata), ML Ops (just don't need it), and AI services (we're a mature company; we don't need help coming up with use cases).
  • Pricing changes every year--not just the amount but what you actually get, so we need to nitpick the contract each year because DataRobot has inevitably eliminated something we need.
It's appropriate for speeding up the work of your experienced data scientists. If they spend more than 15% of their time building and tweaking models, DataRobot will cut that down significantly. Caveat emptor: while the DataRobot marketing materials promise to turn any analyst into a data scientist, this is far from the truth. If your potential users do not already understand how machine learning models work, and have not built some models on their own, then they will make mistakes that DataRobot will not correct because it assumes you know what you're doing. Interpreting the results and iterating on models is easy for a trained data scientist but would be baffling for a typical financial analyst.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DataRobot is a very useful tool to quickly look for interactions and relations between different features. It serves as a comfortable way to engineer features and rapidly interpret behaviors in between specific attributes.
  • Feature engineering
  • Performance and velocity estimation
  • Overall management of several models at once
  • Integration with external data sources could be easier
From a credit risk perspective, I think DataRobot is very useful to work on scenario assessments. For example, to identify the worst possible scenario in a default assessment.
March 29, 2022

A Good AI Tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DataRobot as scoring to underwrite new policies. It is an additional help to know who will be a good insurer and who will not. You can use DataRobot to predict something that you need. Our business problem is that it is sometimes difficult to know who is going to have a claim and who doesn't.
  • Modeling
  • Easier than others
  • Well explained
  • Courses in Spanish
  • Cheaper
  • Not always intuitive
It is well-suited when you can finally be able to work "easily" when you know how it works. It is not suited when you start to use the tool you need to contract a consultancy, but you have to know how to use it. Also, they have courses you can use, but you have to dedicate the time to study and learn.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acting as a credit broker, I use DataRobot to allow me to rapidly build and deploy machine learning models to predict the likelihood that a loan application will be accepted by a lender; that the consumer will engage with the offer; that the consumer and lender will agree terms and a loan will be funded. Identifying populations with a low probability allows me to reduce costs to lenders in scoring loan applications; and improves the earnings per referral that our partners use to measure our performance.
  • Automated machine learning
  • Measuring feature impacts and effects
  • Producing live probability scores
  • Error notification - it can be challenging to identify the cause of errors
  • Exporting data from the GUI is not possible
  • Complicated commercials which regularly change
DataRobot is great when you have a structured flat dataset and want to predict either regression or categorization. It is not as well matured in dealing with nonstructured data, images, audio recordings, etc. It is great if you can define your features outside of the software, but it is not possible to make changes to the data once you have uploaded, including performing calculations on the data (e.g. adding two features together).
Amar Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DataRobot is used for training several models, evaluating the trained models, deploying them in production, and tracking the result on day to day basis. DataRobot has excellent MLOps support. We are utilizing DataRobot for demand prediction (time-aware models). In another project, we utilized the predictor and optimizer applications for demo purposes.
  • It can do feature engineering very well.
  • It can explain the model and model predictions very well.
  • The deployment and model management is very easy.
  • It tries exhaustive list of models before finalizing one.
  • It does not provide enough opportunity to modify the pipeline.
  • Once the control is given to datarobot, there is little that a data scientist can do.
  • DataRobot can generate explanation for why a model was
  • Model retraining automation is not very flexible in Datarobot
Appropriate When we have a very straightforward data science problem, which needs a scalable solution, then it is a suitable solution. Suitable for time-aware models, DataRobot can created many features. Less Appropriate When the data science problem is challenging and requires lots of fine-tuning, the DataRobot is not a good solution.
K Aswini Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DataRobot is really useful for data scientists to start immediately and allows basic asks such as hyperparameter tuning, optimization of parameters, and choosing the right model easily. In the current organization, we use to production the solution and really helped reduce the execution timelines around the projects
  • Hyper parameter tuningoptimization
  • EDA
  • Feature generation
  • Improving model accuracy metrics
  • Improve on Automation
  • Price points can be improved
We used for some of our business problems to get the most appropriate features, producing the solutions and ML scenarios
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We do not use DataRobot anymore. It was oversold by their sales guy. They have fantastic data scientists who solved the use cases we had, but from there we have not really used it. It turned out it was not the platform that solved the issues but the preprocessing step outside of DataRobot using a python package to do some specific calculations. The main drawback is the pricing structure. so that is what we are doing now. We have tried to do internal roadshows to see if other parts of the organization could use it, but no luck yet.
  • Fantastic data scientists
  • solving the problemet
  • not so easy to use when you want a model in production
  • timeseries data analyse
February 12, 2022

DataRobot is fabulous

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DataRobot to predict and classify tickets in our helpdesk system. This has helped to save considerable time in having to manually classify tickets. We have also used the DataRobot/Uipath connector to allocate the automatically classified tickets into the agents' queues without having them manually pick up the tickets for resolution.
  • Use of keys words
  • Accurate prediction of ticket classes
  • Integrates well with UiPath RPA
  • The user interface can be improved
  • Add multi factor authentication to improve security
  • Change the pricing structure to make it more cost effective
Predicting customer churn of our top 30% of our referring doctors and the effects of them doing so Predicting IT service tickets using keyword analysis, so as to save time from having to manually select different categories and sub-categories, eliminating delays for tickets to be picked up by service desk agents.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
An amazing data analytics platform. Cloud-based solution. User-friendly dashboard. A lot of customization can be done based on business requirements. Gives good output from the raw data. Lots of data fields are available. Nice chart functionality. Different roles are available. We can use it on Prem deployment also. Support multiple data formats. The use case was to increase the visibility of the customer current services which they are using.
  • Easy of access
  • Customized dashboard
  • Ease of integration
  • Support multiple data formats
  • Various templates and reports available
  • Data center in India
  • Detailed Audit trail
  • Integration with inhouse applications
It is good for bfsi industry to use this platform to find details regarding customer needs and their onboarding journeys. Also useful to find out the problem areas from where the organization is not getting the required revenues that could be cross-sold, digital sales, partner sales .etc. This platform may not be useful for tech-related statistics
manish karan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
DataRobot is super incredible with data engineering. It has a lovely UI. It's simple to deploy and use. Great with real-time reporting by intelligence.
  • It's a magnificent software with business intelligence.
  • It's excellent with instant access of data.
  • Efficient for it's ease of deployment.
  • Intuitive UI.
  • It requires programming skills to use.
  • It's magnificent with being able to collect and manipulate database.
  • Excellent for tracking data with maximum protection.
  • It's great for business intelligence.
It's very superb for business intelligence, and making business decisions. It has intuitive UI, and it's excellent with data consistency.
Nathan Patrick Taylor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DataRobot to address several uses cases across clinical, financial, and operational areas. In the clinical setting, we are looking to predict specific outcomes, like readmissions, in an effort to adjust reduce the readmission rate. The operations team uses outputs from DataRobot to forecast census levels that potentially impact our financials.
  • Rapid model building
  • Excellent model explanations
  • Easy to use API
  • State-of-the-art model management and MLOps
  • Superb UI
  • Scenario building and What-if analysis
  • Add prescriptive analytics capability
  • Tighter integration with visualization tools
The DataRobot platform can create numeric predictions, binary and multi-class predictions, and time-series forecasts. Like any ML problem, DataRobot works best when your ML problem is well-framed and the dataset is formatted appropriately. DataRobot has built-in guardrails to prevent novice or inexperienced ML users from creating nonsensical models. The platform does a great job of presenting visibility into how the model determines a prediction. The explainability embedded in the platform makes it easy for non-data scientists to understand the models that were built.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Datarobot is one of the best AutoML tools out there with many SOR models. It has helped our organization in realizing the potential of AI and AL. It is really easy to use and understand even for a budding ML engineer or data scientist. They also provide the best support and continuous improvement to the tool.
  • State of the Art models
  • Easy deployment and maintenance
  • Awesome support and documentations
  • Data Prep can be integrated as a part of app instead of additional service
  • Unsupervised learning can be improved
  • Can provide boiler plate use cases like NLP and chatbot directly in the tool
Datarobot is one of the best AutoML tools out there with many SOR models. It has helped our organization in realizing the potential of AI and AL. It is really easy to use and understand even for a budding ML engineer or data scientist. They also provide the best support and continuous improvement to the tool.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have a multi-classification problem and a relevancy problem we are using DataRobot to provide us a model for.
  • Extremely quick to provide prod ready models.
  • Super easy to maintain the models in a production environment.
  • Excellent audit trail
  • Offering a way within DataRobot to link multiple models as a single stack. Were using multiple binary classification models and we needed to link them through our own code. For us, it was easy since we were all programmers, to begin with, but for more business-oriented people, it would have been harder.
DataRobot gave us models we could work on within a matter of days completely solving the pure machine learning part of the equation. People in upper management still have a hard time grasping how because of your tool we no longer need help with the AI part of things. I keep referring to your tool as a beast that needs to be fed period.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am one of several analysts at our organization who uses DataRobot for predictive modeling in an insurance context. Several of us are all working on models that are subsets of a large data set that we are hoping to use to help with future pricing efforts.
  • The breadth of models available to use is helpful and allows much more analytical power than programming them all yourself.
  • The built-in variable diagnostics are helpful when testing large variable sets to see which perform the best.
  • Many of the adjustments on the models are easy to use/it's easy to re-run and kick off new models as you want to try new things.
  • Make it easier to add one feature to a feature list. select all, go to the overall data tab, then select the new ones and create a new list. Something like [adding] one variable or a selected set with an existing list and [creating] a new one.
  • Easier access to project specs like target/offsets/etc. from the data tab
  • switch to toggle on and off generation of feature impacts/effects when you start new models.
It is well suited for analysts like myself who are familiar with predictive modeling and understand some of the behind-the-scenes aspects but aren't to the point where they could program a predictive model by themselves from scratch. I think I've had the most success with it as an analytical accelerator. If you have no modeling experience or aren't familiar with some of the concepts, it will still work, but it could be a bit overwhelming/you might lack the knowledge to make intelligent business decisions with the results. On the opposite end, it can definitely help seasoned modelers who are able to do things from scratch themselves, but it can provide a hindrance if there are specific tweaks you want to make that aren't available in data robots or are two hard to decipher from the back end.
December 17, 2021

Support and experience.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Used for research and prediction. Broad and across all aspects of our business. Helps us make use of historical datasets to better calibrate our models.
  • Support for new users to get up to speed.
  • Packaging up and supporting libraries.
  • Knowledge of our business context.
  • Cleaner ways to upload / integrate large datasets, particularly in linux.
This is a good way to take open-source tools and add in professional support to take some of the guesswork out of which libraries to use. The ability to apply multiple tools in parallel and rank the results is particularly effective for us.
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