I received a press release announcing that REvolution Computing, a provider of software and support for the open source “R” statistical programming language had appointed R co-creator, Robert ...

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The R programming language is quickly gaining popular ground against the traditional statistics packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least according to one data statistician who teaches the ...

Customer data mining (CDM) may be a fragmented market on the user side, but relatively few vendors control the space, according to evidence from a new Gartner report. CDM, defined by Gartner as "the ...

The first computer program I ever wrote (in 1979, if you must know) was in the statistical package SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), and the second computer platform I used was SAS ...

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SAS and SPSS are the leading vendors in data mining, according Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Mining, 1Q06." Both companies are considered the clear leaders in this space, with no other ...

Business analytics is experiencing a resurgence as enterprises seek more from BI Last week Business Objects signed a deal with SPSS to link its predictive analytics application to the Business Objects ...

When it comes to data mining and predictive analytics, Microsoft Corp. might not be the first company that comes to mind. That could change, however, especially if Donald Farmer, Redmond's principal ...