Creating reports with Tanagra
The ability to create automatically reports from the results of an analysis is a valuable functionality for Data Mining. But this is rather an asset to the professional tools. The programming of this kind of functionality is not really promoted in the academic domain. I do not think that I can publish a paper in a journal where I describe the ability of Tanagra to create attractive reports. This is the reason for which the output of the academic tools, such as R or Weka, is mainly in a formatted text shape. Tanagra, which is an academic tool, provides also text outputs. The programming remains simple if we see at a glance the source code. But, in order to make the presentation more attractive, it uses the HTML to format the results. I take advantage of this special feature to generate reports without making a particular programming effort. Tanagra is one of the few academic tools to be able to produce reports that can easily be displayed in office automation software. For instances, th