WEKA is a Java-based framework and GUI for machine learning algorithms. It provides a plug-in architecture for researchers to add their own techniques, with a command-line and window interface that makes it easy to apply them to your own data. You can use it to do everything from basic clustering to advanced classification, together with a lot of tools for visualizing your results.
It is heavily used as a teaching tool, but it also comes in extremely handy for prototyping and experimenting outside of the classroom. It has a strong set of preprocessing tools that make it easy to load your data in, and then you have a large library of algorithms at your fingertips, so you can quickly try out ideas until you find an approach that works for your problem. The command-line interface allows you to apply exactly the same code in an automated way for production.
