Would You Prefer Prettier Pivot Tables?
I have heard from users that they often need to enhance the formatting of SPSS Statistics pivot tables beyond what…
From Prettier Tables to Prettier Text
“Pretty” understates what formatting is really about. Making an object more pleasing to the eye is nice, but the point…
How to Speak Visualization
In English, we use many different words to describe the same basic objects. In one survey, researchers Dieth and Orton…
The latest and greatest versus the valuable
This article expands on some comments I made on Curt Monash’s latest blog posting: Why the basically good choice of…
My approach to Management
This is a topic that I have been asked to talk about quite a bit recently and I thought that…
How are data transformations represented in PMML?
PMML supports several kinds of data transformations. Below, we list the most common together with examples.Data transformations involved in the…
ADAPA® Web Service for Predictive Models Sample (for ADAPA® Enterprise Edition and Amazon EC2 users)
The ADAPA® Web Service for Predictive Models allows execution of PMML models through two distinct web service calls. The ADAPA®…
Statistical Analysis Software R Featured in NYT Article
We highly recommend the following article about R in the New York Times: Data Analysts Captured by R's Power.It shows…
Data pre-processing in PMML and ADAPA – A Primer
PMML defines several kinds of simple data transformations. These are:Normalization: map values to numbers, the input can be continuous (element…
R to PMML Export Video Tutorial
We created a brief VIDEO TUTORIAL to demonstrate how easy it is to export PMML from R. The Predictive Model…
