Data Mining / Analytic Software News, Sep 2010

• 11Ants Model Builder Transforms Excel into Breakthrough Predictive Analytics Tool - Sep 21, 2010.
  emulates the best practices of a data mining expert and does the complex work for users - effectively a data mining auto-pilot.
• Bayesia News, September 2010 - Sep 20, 2010.
  Major innovations in new release of BayesiaLab include: Knowledge Elicitation Environment; Causal Inference; Multi-Quadrants; Target Optimization Tree; BayesiaLab Analyst Edition. Download a free 30-day evaluation version of BayesiaLab 5.0.
• Predixion Software Introduces Self-Service, Cloud-Based Predictive Analytics Solution - Sep 17, 2010.
  Predixion Insight, the Company's Flagship Cloud Service, Integrates Seamlessly with Microsoft Excel, PowerPivot and SharePoint.
• AutoUniv, for creating classification models and generating data sets - Sep 15, 2010.
  freely available for the ML/DM community to develop and test algorithms which learn to classify.
• WekaSharp: An F# wrapper for Weka - Sep 7, 2010.
  This post is for end users, who want to use this wrapper to perform data mining tasks in .Net.
• Sizing samples - how much data is enough? - Sep 6, 2010.
  MIT researchers have shown that graphs shaped like stars and chains establish, respectively, the worst- and best-case scenarios for computers doing pattern recognition.
• SAS launches do-it-yourself predictive analytics for business users - Sep 3, 2010.
  SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler automatically guides users through a behind-the-scenes workflow of data preparation and data mining tasks, enabling them to generate their own models and derive insights. It runs from either SAS Enterprise Guide or Microsoft Excel Add-in.

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