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Why we included this project

Orange is a desktop data mining tool that lets you build analysis pipelines by dragging widgets onto a canvas instead of writing code. You load a table, connect a preprocessing step, drop in a classifier or clustering widget, and inspect the output at each stage, which makes the whole process transparent enough to teach. The visual flow lets you trace how a prediction was reached and spot where a pipeline went wrong, something that is easy to lose track of in a script. When you outgrow the canvas, the same components are importable from Python, so you can script the heavy lifting while keeping the visual setup for exploration. It is genuinely open source and remains one of the most complete tools of its kind for hands-on analysis on your own machine.