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Paul / Trent,<br>
<br>
THX guys for those responses. Actually, I was thinking more in the
direction of <a
href="http://opensource.com/business/14/6/three-open-source-business-tools">Business
Intelligence</a>, or <a href="http://scrapy.org/">Web Site
Scraping</a>. The direction I am going in is to find something
out there, versus parse data, on an existing data base. If, that
makes sense to the both of you. Or, do I have it all wrong here?<br>
<br>
The project I am working on is to find possible candidates, with a
European partner, for the bolt-on acquisition of a certain type of
Biotech company. He ran a NASDAQ listed company, and I worked
directly for him. We've run the gamut, of our global contacts, and
are looking to dig deeper. That, at several levels.<br>
<br>
To be honest, we always relied up IT, but probably never asked the
right questions. Or, vice versa. See the conundrum here? <br>
<br>
If you've got any other ideas, please do get back to me. I've been
running Linux forever. The reason was simple. I got tired of
playing M$ S/W Engineer, and being asked, in Taiwan, or other
countries, to insert my original M$ CD. LOL!<br>
<br>
THX again for your time!<br>
<br>
John<br>
<br>
On 09/09/2014 12:38 AM, Paul Mooring wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:39 PM, trent
shipley <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:trent.shipley@gmail.com" target="_blank">trent.shipley@gmail.com</a>></span>
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.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>
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:51 PM, John J. Macey <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jjmacey@gmail.com">jjmacey@gmail.com</a>>
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<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>
><br>
> --------<br>
><br>
> John J. Macey<br>
> Wildwood, New Jersey<br>
> Phone: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:480-242-1503" value="+14802421503">480-242-1503</a><br>
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