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In large data spreadsheets, it is impossible to view everything at once. Splitting the view of the data into multiple panes can help with tasks such as reviewing and cleaning the data. In STATISTICA spreadsheets, viewing multiple panes within the data is easy.

 

I just read Amanda's Six Years at StatSoft blog. I have to jump in and say me too. I joined StatSoft in May, seven years ago.

One of my first major projects was for a company (RR)  that creates machines for semiconductors companies. These machines are used in the manufacturing process for chips. They are large, expensive and cut silicon.

Every machine that RR creates has an embedded computer. RR has their own software that runs the machine, but they wanted to provide analytics to their customers. 

So the project started out 

Six years ago today I started my employment at StatSoft. It was a different era – George W. Bush was in the White House.  We’d never had a female Speaker of the House. Regular unleaded gas averaged $2.95 a gallon and X-Men: The Last Stand was hitting theaters.

What else has changed?

 

 

 

In predictive analytics, several steps are necessary before building models. In addition to understanding the needs and goals of the project, the data should be prepared. Real-world data comes with real-world problems, as I was reminded reading a blog post recently. The success of the project often times is sabotaged by these data issues. So, is your data ready?

Preparing data for analysis is a tricky process. There is no one-size-fits-all way to do things. There are some valid approaches to choose from in the face of various challenges. These challenges include, but are certainly not limited to, missing values, data entry errors, points outside the valid range, outliers, impossible combinations, duplicate records, invariant data, structure and issues of data organization, and the list goes on.  

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Warsaw is the location for the third conference on “Practical data analysis in the pharmaceutical industry” organized by StatSoft Polska on April 25th. StatSoft consultants, pharmaceutical industry experts and scientists will present examples of effective data analysis and reporting in a drug production process and quality control.

StatSoft’s dedicated, automated system for monitoring process and product parameters will be demonstrated along with its basic functionality including: monitoring of many processes and critical parameters, events notification, automated reporting and many others.

eKPI Solutions, a consulting and training company, has published on its portal a comparative evaluation and review of the desktop version of STATISTICA vs. Minitab, another popular application for quality improvement and Six Sigma applications.

In this review, the author concludes that users who need tools for “advanced (statistical) analysis knowledge discovery” should “get STATISTICA. STATISTICA provides all necessary statistical tools!” and that the StatSoft products “can be used by a very wide audience” of users.