BeyeNETWORK: Open Source Text Analytics. Open source is a great choice for many text analytics users, especially folks who have programming skills, who need custom capabilities or who are trying to get a feel for possibilities before committing themselves. Excellent options are available for all these users. Tools such as Gate, NLTK, R and RapidMiner share the low cost, power, flexibility and community that have driven adoptionof open-source software by individual users and enterprises alike. RapidMiner even combines text processing with business intelligence (BI) and visualization functions. This article will look at open source text analytics, focusing on those four tools. (UIMA, the open source Unstructured Information Management Architecture, is a rich topic in itself, one that merits its own article.) I will suggest a number of resources that will help you get started. Keep in mind that since these tools are open source, you can simply download them and try them out!
Not Just for Programmers For Data Miners Conclusion. BeyeNETWORK: Collaborative Analytics – An Emerging Practice. Collaboration is the act of working jointly – two or more people combining their efforts toward achieving shared or intersecting goals. Collaboration is fundamental to teamwork and is generally viewed as a good and culturally desirable thing. Yet analysis is practiced almost exclusively as a solitary activity – the determined and dogged analyst persistently digging through masses of data in search of answers and insights. The old model of business analysis is about to change. Collaborative technology is ready. But more importantly, today’s business and economic climate demands collaborative understanding and problem-solving. You can expect an economic recovery to begin in 2009, but don’t expect a return to business as usual. There will be turbulent times; to navigate you’ll need to make the right discoveries, ask the right questions, find the right answers and devise the right solutions.
What is Collaborative Analytics? The data loop encourages data sharing. What is the Current State? BeyeNETWORK: Business Analytics for Troubled Times. Everyone realizes that we live and work in a different world today than that of just one year ago. The year 2008 was a turning point in business and in society. Confidence is down, uncertaintyabounds and uncomfortable words – turbulence, recession, bailout, etc. – dominate the news.
The economy is the driving force, but it is not the only change. Customer behaviors aredifferent, employee expectations have changed, corporate strategies are fluid and futures are uncertain. So much has changed in the business world, yet strangely one thing remains the same. I believe that inertia is much of the problem and that it results from uncertainty. Realize that decision making has different implications in today’s business climate than that of a year ago. The Decisions Remember when the difference between a good decision and an adequate decision was simply how much growth would occur? But events of the past year remind us all that unchecked expansion can’t continue endlessly. The Questions.
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