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- Graham J Williams (2011). Data Mining with Rattle and R: The Art of Excavating Data for Knowledge Discovery, Springer, Use R!.
- In 2010, Rattle was listed in the top 10 graphical user interfaces in statistical software by Decision Stats.
- Rattle is described as an "attractive, easy-to-use front end ... data mining toolkit" in an article published in the Teradata Magazine, volume 9, issue 3, page 57 (September 2009).
- Graham J William (2009). Rattle: A Data Mining GUI for R. The R Journal 1(2):45-55.
