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. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:39 PM, trent shipley wrote: > 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 > -- Paul Mooring Operations Engineer Chef