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A U.K. university spinoff company is offering a set of algorithms developed by the European Union that might help U.S. agencies data mine more accurately.

Numerical Algorithms Group of London (http://www.nag.com) has released Version 2.0 of its Data Mining and Cleaning Components software package. This version makes use of results from a $4.6 million, three-year EU research project called Euredit.

The Euredit work addressed shortcomings in current data mining techniques for handling missing or erroneous data, according to Stephen Langdell, a member of the Numerical Library Division of NAG. It also pioneered some techniques for better memory management.

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