Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

Data Analysis Platform for Drug Discovery & Development

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Genedata, announced Genedata Analyst, an integrated statistical and data analysis platform with advanced visualization capabilities.Built on client-server architecture, Genedata Analyst handles huge and complex data sets of billion-plus data points while supporting small research groups or hundreds of users. Simultaneously managing data from different sources, Genedata Analyst gives researchers and biostatisticians a secure and scalable data-mining platform, which can be tightly integrated with existing research IT ecosystems.

Features (Selected):

  • Enhanced Usability enabling non-expert users to access
  • High Scalability processes large and complex datasets
  • Advanced Visualization
  • Tools such as ANOVA, linear models, Principal Components and Partial Least Square analysis, Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) and clustering methods

About Genedata
Genedata transforms data into intelligence with a portfolio of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, which spans target, lead and biomarker discovery. Used by a majority of the world’s top 50 pharmaceutical companies and leading research organizations, Genedata Phylosopher®, Genedata Screener®, Genedata Expressionist®, and Genedata Analyst™ make research data accessible and understandable, enabling scientific discovery that fights disease and improves health worldwide. Founded in 1997, Genedata is privately held, with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, and offices in Japan, Germany and the US. www.genedata.com

[GeneData]

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Leafnode, The ‘game’ based on behavioral modelling

Friday, March 19th, 2010

San Francisco and New York City based organization , Turiya Media , focuses on optimizing online games. The company enables game publishers to proactively identify and retain their best customers, and target them with personalized recommendations. To stake a claim in the online gaming market it announced the launch of its Leafnode product on 10th March 2010. This product is based on data mining and analyzing behavioral data. This technique helps game publishers to retain and monetize their customers.

The problem is that the online gamers spend a lot of time interacting with games, but publishers have limited access and visibility into what motivates their customers and how best to monetize them. This is the main focus of the company’s Leafnode product. As a solution to this problem , this product will track hours of logged time by individual players and create individual behavioral profiles by using advanced predictive algorithms.

[Venture Beat]

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Open Source Data Mining made easy and fun.. Thanks to RapidMiner!

Friday, March 19th, 2010

We bring you an online video tutorial on RapidMiner. This Germany based organization , Rapid-I , has given us one of the most popular data mining tool being used for real world data mining. Not only that it has given us several tremendous options for quickly learning this beautiful art of mining data through online video tutorials. RapidMiner Community Edition is free for non-commercial use and suitable for data mining beginners.

The first video (YouTube) gives us a good idea about the initial stages of mining data like to import training and prediction data, to add a classification learner and then to apply the model.

The second video shows you how to use a cross and simple validation operator to split your training data into two sets: training and validation data sets.

The third video shows you how to create a decision tree to help us find “sweet spots” in a particular market segment. This video tutorial uses the Rapidminer direct mail marketing data generator and a split validation operator to build the decision tree.

After going through these videos, we are sure you will now be able to ease your way into RapidMiner.

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Siri…from Search to Assistance and the road ahead!

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Now that you have watched the video, you can observe that,  Siri understands what you say, accomplishes tasks for you and adapts to your preferences over time. You can ask Siri questions naturally just as you will ask your assistant,like ” Book a ticket for London!” or ” Will it snow today?”. It understands information like where you are, what accounts you have on various services and the context of the last question you asked. Over time ,Siri will improve by getting to know you better and understand a broader set of tasks and soon you’ll trust it to manage many personal details in your life – from recommending a wine you might enjoy to managing your to do list.

The current version of Siri is built for iPhone 3GS and requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later. Soon, Siri will run on the iPod Touch, iPhone 3G and additional mobile platforms, as well.

Siri can get you information about Restaurants, Airline Tickets, Events, Taxis, Movies, Local and Weather Forcasts in a very simple conversation. Siri is the first Mobile Application which acts as a Virtual Personal Assistant. Its an intelligent software agent designed to have a back-and-forth conversational interaction with you as it helps you get tasks done.  The creation of Siri is a joint effort of designers and engineers pooled in from various all star organisations like Google, Yahoo, Apple, Motorola, Netscape, eBay, RealTravel, SRI, NASA, and Xerox PARC.

“In terms of long-term predictions, Siri is actually an easy bet.” – The New York Times.

“It’s the closest thing to a real assistant that you can talk to that I’ve ever seen.”- Vator News

To download this iPhone application visit :

http://siri.com/download/

For more details visit :

http://siri.com/

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