<div dir="ltr">R definitely is the standard currently, but I would add Julia to the list of notable languages for data science. Also while it's much less popular, I've played with Incanter (a statistics/data science library for clojure) a bit and found it delightful. My experience with Incanter does come with the disclaimer that I've never needed to work with "big data", no need for hadoop/map reduce and also I like lisps a good bit and that probably colors how anyone would feel about working with clojure vs working with R.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:39 PM, trent shipley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trent.shipley@gmail.com" target="_blank">trent.shipley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In open source the basic statistical tool pretty much seems to be R.<br>
I get the impression that it works well, though not as well as SPSS,<br>
and not nearly as well as SAS.<br>
<br>
The database varies with what kind of data science/data analysis/data<br>
mining you want to do. What kind of data do you intend to collect?<br>
What do you want to do with the data? How big is the data? Is it<br>
relational? Is it organized in some sense? Is XML or text based? Is it<br>
on a transactional production database? Does the database have to<br>
approach ACID compliance?<br>
<br>
Or do you just want a laundry list of open source databases, their<br>
associated tools, and possible open source analysis tools?<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:51 PM, John J. Macey <<a href="mailto:jjmacey@gmail.com">jjmacey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Hi All,<br>
><br>
> A bit of a background here. I was out in AZ, a much senior student @ ASU,<br>
> and a 2 time visitor at the PLUG. Because of family circumstances, I had to<br>
> return to New Jersey to attend to an elderly Mother.<br>
><br>
> I work as a consultant in the Biotech / Life Science / Medical Device field.<br>
> The general background is here.<br>
><br>
> I deal with projects, that now involve gathering / scrapping / data mining /<br>
> gathering business intelligence. Basically, this is global, and I'd thought<br>
> I'd ask here in the PLUG. The data mining is not in regard to an enterprise,<br>
> or a vast supply of stored data. I've looked into creating APIs, Google+,<br>
> etc., etc. So, I am not throwing this question out there lightly.<br>
><br>
> Does anyone have experience with any of the open source business<br>
> intelligence tools? Funny thing is, I had found something simple about 20<br>
> years ago. Things have changed. LOL!<br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance for any responses.<br>
> --<br>
><br>
> John<br>
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