Analytics Team

Here’s a great article presenting information about visualization tools including:

Tableau
Improvise
Mondrian
ParVis
SpaceTree
TreeViz
Prefuse
Flare
Many Eyes
Swivel
JuiceKit

Predictive analytics software vendor, KXEN, has announced two upcoming training sessions to be held in Chicago.

May 13-14, 2009 Fundamental Training and KXEN Certification
May 15, 2009 Scripting and Advanced Topics

Wolfram Research announced the release of Mathematica Home Edition. It’s the personal version of the software used by professionals in science, engineering and mathematics fields. It costs $295.
Mathematica Home Edition contains the same functions that can be found in Wolfram’s recently released Mathematica 7. That includes image processing, parallel computation, and astronomical, geographical and life [...]

The New York Times has picked up on the increasing popularity of the open source analytics and data mining software, R.

As budgets tighten and solution choices expand many companies are starting to consider open source solutions to things like CRM, productivity software and more. Here’s a list from John Perez of 25 alternatives to enterprise software.

Wolfram shows some great examples of how Mathematica can be used to analyze things like the election. Import poll data. Run simulations. Create graphs.