Absolutely, you should try MATLAB. Not only is it very user-friendly but also it facilitates many instructions for machine learning and data mining. It is good idea to take a glance at some of my works which has been concluded by MATLAB:
Article Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Information Sy...
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