In open source the basic statistical tool pretty much seems to be R. I get the impression that it works well, though not as well as SPSS, and not nearly as well as SAS. The database varies with what kind of data science/data analysis/data mining you want to do. What kind of data do you intend to collect? What do you want to do with the data? How big is the data? Is it relational? Is it organized in some sense? Is XML or text based? Is it on a transactional production database? Does the database have to approach ACID compliance? Or do you just want a laundry list of open source databases, their associated tools, and possible open source analysis tools? On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:51 PM, John J. Macey wrote: > Hi All, > > A bit of a background here. I was out in AZ, a much senior student @ ASU, > and a 2 time visitor at the PLUG. Because of family circumstances, I had to > return to New Jersey to attend to an elderly Mother. > > I work as a consultant in the Biotech / Life Science / Medical Device field. > The general background is here. > > I deal with projects, that now involve gathering / scrapping / data mining / > gathering business intelligence. Basically, this is global, and I'd thought > I'd ask here in the PLUG. The data mining is not in regard to an enterprise, > or a vast supply of stored data. I've looked into creating APIs, Google+, > etc., etc. So, I am not throwing this question out there lightly. > > Does anyone have experience with any of the open source business > intelligence tools? Funny thing is, I had found something simple about 20 > years ago. Things have changed. LOL! > > Thanks in advance for any responses. > -- > > John > > -------- > > John J. Macey > Wildwood, New Jersey > Phone: 480-242-1503 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss