STATISTICA News

Bekaert and StatSoft Renew & Expand Relationship

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:37:00 GMT

Joint Release

October 30, 2009

StatSoft announces that NV Bekaert SA (www.bekaert.com) has renewed the global licensing for the STATISTICA analytics software for an additional multi-year term. The renewal is the extension of an existing collaboration between the two companies.:

Bekaert continues to grow and expand its usage of the STATISTICA for the analytics involved in its Six Sigma and Quality programs throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. STATISTICA gives Bekaert the ability to...

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Data Mining / Predictive Modeling

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:22:00 GMT

Last week, StatSoft representatives, Gary Miner and Rob Eames, participated in the Predictive Analytics World (PAW) conference in the Washington D.C. area (Alexandria, VA). The PAW event has become the largest conference on business applications of predictive modeling, focusing on talks about applying predictive modeling to business objectives such as fraud, customer segmentation, response modeling and optimization, etc. Gary and Rob report that the current buzz from show attendees is:

Deployment of Models for Scoring. Attendees were very interested in the STATISTICA Live Score solution for the utilization of predictive models across various lines of business applications. Attendees asked repeatedly “How do we take the models we build on historical data and utilize them ongoing for marketing applications, custom...

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Recap from Quality Expo 2009

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:11:00 GMT

StatSoft participated in the Quality Expo conference in Chicago, IL earlier this month. There were 4 trends from the discussions we had with conference attendees:

1. More than ever, companies are ready to move beyond "desktop" software for quality and Six Sigma analytics. There was a great buzz around the STATISTICA Enterprise/QC software platform for enabling analysts, engineers, and quality professionals, to take the integration of quality methods and Six Sigma into the organization.

2. Attendees are thinking about extending their current quality tools with Multivariate Quality Control (MQC) and Multivariate Statistical Process Control (MSPC), augmenting what they are doing now with univariate Quality Control.

3. STATISTICA Monitoring & Alerting Server (MAS): Companies are very interested in ways to automate the monitoring of unlimited processes and parameters with convenient, configurable Web-based Dashboard summaries.

4. STATISTICA Process Optimization: Companies have an abundance of historical data to use to model processes to determine root causes and relationships, optimize process parameters to meet and exceed specifications, and deploy the models for ongoing process monitoring.

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StatSoft Poland Hosts Seminar, Employment Statistics and Data Mining

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:04:00 GMT

StatSoft Polska is hosting a seminar on October 20-22 in Warsaw, Poland, Employment Statistics and Data mining. These seminars will cover topics including Industrial Data Analysis - Quality and Innovations in Practice, Applications of Data Analysis in Marketing and Market Research, Data Analysis in STATISTICA 9, and Applications of Statistics and Data Mining in Scientific and Technology Research.

The seminar, Industrial Data Analysis - Quality and Innovations in Practice will be given on October 20, 2009. This meeting is directed to everyone responsible from quality, validation of technological process and following specific standard specifications. Lecturers will describe benefits of using SPC and show step by step example of quality control charts implementation and process optimization.

Also on October 20 is the Applications of Data Analysis in Marketing and Market Research seminar. Lecturers will present some market segmentation techniques, marketing scoring, churn analysis, survey data processing and data visualization.

Data Analysis in STATISTICA 9 seminar will have five presentations on October 21. The goal of the meeting is to introduce the enhancements and new features of STATISTICA 9. Lecturers will also present live analysis including internet store fraud detection with the use of Data Miner Recipes.

The final seminar, Applications of Statistics and Data mining in Scientific and Technology Research, is held October 22. Every year STATISTICA users from various disciplines of science and technology share their experience and knowledge. This year invited lecturers focus on techniques of modeling epidemiological, geological and social data, using statistics to analyze results of empirical research and try to answer question: how does data mining benefit in scientific and technology research.

For more information about these seminars, visit StatSoft Polska.

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Free Data Mining Video Series

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:19:00 GMT

StatSoft is making available a free Introduction to Data Mining using STATISTICA video series. The course is a set of 35 video tutorials covering both concepts and hands-on examples of data mining projects. The series starts with an overview of data mining and continues through the steps of typical data mining projects: data cleaning and preparation, model building and evaluation, and model deployment. The intent of this series is to familiarize you with data mining, so that you are empowered to start your own data mining projects. You will see the tools that are available and the output they produce with tips about interpreting it. The series will cover ...

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StatSoft and Advanced Systems & Designs Deliver Quality Solutions to Automotive and Manufacturing Industries

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:39:00 GMT

StatSoft, Inc., announced a partnership with Advanced Systems and Designs (ASD)(http://asdqms.com ). ASD provides consulting and training services primarily in the areas of Quality Control and Gage monitoring and data collection for the Automotive and General Manufacturing industries. By the terms of the partnership, ASD will utilize STATISTICA Enterprise/QC and WebSTATISTICA in its consulting and training services, and will resell STATISTICA products.

ASD, a 25 year old SPC company, is located in Troy, MI. For nearly a decade...

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National Remote Sensing Centre Raves about STATISTICA

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:16:00 GMT

India’s National Remote Sensing Centre, www.nrsc.gov.in, part of the Department of Space, uses STATISTICA for day-to-day data analysis and research. Responsible for analyzing data from remote sensing satellites, the National Remote Sensing Centre focuses on providing accessible, affordable, and actionable knowledge from earth observations for national resources and environment management and disaster management support. MM Ali, head of the Oceanography Division, speaks highly of the software and support that is available, saying, “local support of StatSoft India is prompt, friendly, and beyond my expectations.”

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Abbott Analytics and StatSoft to Deliver Cutting Edge Software & Services for Data Mining Projects

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:40:00 GMT

StatSoft, Inc., today announced a partnership with Abbott Analytics (www.abbottanalytics.com). Abbott Analytics leads organizations through the process of applying and integrating leading-edge data mining methods to marketing, research and business endeavors.

Abbott Analytics has provided consulting in the area of data mining for the past 22 years, applying advanced data mining, data preparation, and data visualization methods to real-world business challenges to help organizations gain valuable insight into their data. Abbott’s recent data mining consulting engagements include fraud detection, risk modeling, text mining, acquisition and churn models, survey analysis, models for predictive toxicology, and exploratory data analysis. STATISTICA represents a state-of-the-art data mining and statistical platform that Abbott Analytics will use in data mining training courses and in consulting.

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User-Defined Variability Plots

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:38:00 GMT

One of the many useful features available to STATISTICA users is the ability to create customized graphs from a data set and then to save these customized graphs to the Graphs menu as User-defined Graphs. You can use the user-defined graphs facilities to save all of the options specified during the initial graph specification in the form of a new graph “type.” This graph can then be used with the same or a different input data file to create similar analytic or presentation output with a minimum of required input.

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Invited Presentation at MITRE Symposium

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:11:00 GMT

Data Mining Methods and Techniques for Monitoring and Optimizing Complex (Continuous) Processes, Presented by Dr. Tom Hill

Dr. Thomas Hill, VP for Analytic Solutions at StatSoft and StatSoft Power Solutions delivered an invited presentation entitled Data Mining Methods and Techniques for Monitoring and Optimizing Complex (Continuous) Processes at MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (MITRE/CAASD). Dr. Hill was one of 8 external (non-government affiliated) data mining experts attending the two-day symposium in McLean, VA, on July 28 and 29, 2009.

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