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22 Tools to LifeLog Today

Imagine never forgetting anything. You'd be able to recall that person's name who you wanted to do business with at the tradeshow or just find those darn keys in the morning. That's what LifeLogging (aka e-memory) tool is all about. While there was lots of news this week about...

Tags: Tool, Data Set, Productivity, Digital Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Red tape keeps Conficker on medical devices

Red tape keeps Conficker on medical devicesAnd of course we [i]want[/i] the governmentto run healthcare? If they are interfereng with routine patching due to their regulations, then having those regulations interfere with fixing the issues the regulations caused, maybe it is time they stepped aside and let the staff maintaine...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Storage management, Red Tape, Conficker, medical device, data set, regulation

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Using Formats, MP Connect, and Other SAS Efficiency Techniques to Save Time and Disk Space

Working with historic household Census data can be quite challenging. Semi-annual data sets can exceed 50 gigabytes and when working with multi-year data it is often necessary to extract information from yearly clusters of data sets exceeding 300 gigabytes. These yearly clusters, until recently, have been processed sequencally, each independent...

Tags: Technique, Disk, SAS Institute, Data Set

White papers 2009-02-27

%LibDoc: A Library Documentation Macro

Codebooks are often desired for documenting data sets. The contents procedure provides a simple way to get useful information for a single data set, but what about documenting an entire library of data sets? What about documenting format catalogs? Table views? Indexes? To address these additional documentation requirements, the paper...

Tags: SAS Institute, Codebooks, Data Set, Contents Procedure

White papers 2009-02-27

MapReduce-scale analytics change BI game as enterprises need to mine ever-expanding data sets

BI has become a killer application over the past few years, and we're now extending that beyond enterprise-class computing into cloud-class computing. The amount of data and content -- and the need for innovative analytics from across the Internet -- is still growing rapidly, even though we have harsh economic...

Tags: Game, Web, Data Warehouse, Analytics, Data, Customer, Computing, Data Set, Greenplum, Business Intelligence, Financial Planning, Pricing, Databases, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-12-16

Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud

Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...

Tags: Genome, Amazon.com Inc., Data Set, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets

LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data setsDefinitely good for my businessI'm quite sure that my employer will be more than happy to sell people tools for analyzing those massive datasets. In practice, secrecy (or rather, confidentiality) has its place (don't really want the general public poring over...

Tags: LHC, massive data set, Genomic, data set

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets

The world won't end when the Large Hadron Collider makes its anticipated first collision of high-energy particles later this month, but it will produce an explosion of data. The LHC will produce as much data in a single day of experimentation as many scientists dealt with in a lifetime only...

Tags: Data, Data Set, Policies And Procedures, Benefits, Robots, Wiki, Strategy, Human Resources, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-11

First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.

First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.It's the sun, stupid.The earth has been cooling for the last 10 years. If the current low solar activity keeps up, we could be in deep doodoo.RE: First scientist to warn Congress on Global...

Tags: U.S. Congress, Hansen, data set, global warming

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Data Sets and Data Quality in Software Engineering

Objective - to assess the extent and types of techniques used to manage quality within software engineering data sets. It considers this a particularly interesting question in the context of initiatives to promote sharing and secondary analysis of data sets. Method - This paper performs a systematic review of available...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Data Quality, Data Set, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-05-13

Maps and Data Sets Supplied With SAS/GIS Software

Several SAS/GIS sample maps and their associated data sets are supplied with SAS/GIS Software. These maps reside in the MAPS library, along with map data sets shipped with SAS/GRAPH Software. These maps can be used for exploring the software or for demonstration purposes. To open the sample maps, invoke SAS/GIS...

Tags: Data Set, GIS, Software

White papers 2007-12-01

Process Your SAS Datasets Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere You Choose With SAS/Connect

One of the challenges of an organization that has multiple computing platforms is accessing SAS data sets stored on other operating systems. For example, maybe the user does most of the work on SAS for Windows, but have to process SAS data sets stored on a corporate Linux server. Or,...

Tags: SAS Institute, Server, Data Set

White papers 2007-05-14

Google helps scientists with their large data sets

Google helps scientists with their large data setsZDNet writers suck!I hope you get paid by the word so you can collect your $ 5.75 for this 'article'. That's a generous nickle plus per word.While hardly the most penetrating analysisI've ever read, I found this brief notice of interest. Can't you...

Tags: data set, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-16

Additional Resources

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Backup4all Professional 4.3 build 168 (Windows)

Backup4all protects your valuable data from partial or total loss by automating backup tasks, password protecting and compressing it to save storage space. Using Backup4all you can easily backup to any local or network drive, backup to FTP (with support for SSL encryption, proxy server, passive mode), backup to CD/DVD/Blu-ray,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Softland, Backup4all, Backups

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Backup4all Lite 4.3 build 168 (Windows)

Backup4all is an award-winning backup software for Windows. Backup4all protects your valuable data from partial or total loss by automating backup tasks, password protecting and compressing it to save storage space. Using Backup4all you can easily backup to any local or network drive, backup to FTP (with support for SSL...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Softland, Backup4all, Backups

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Backup4all Standard 4.3 build 168 (Windows)

Backup4all is an award-winning backup software for Windows. Backup4all protects your valuable data from partial or total loss by automating backup tasks, password protecting and compressing it to save storage space. Using Backup4all you can easily backup to any local or network drive, backup to FTP (with support for SSL...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Softland, Backup4all, Backups

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Human x-ray machines: Coming soon to an airport near you

X-ray screening is badHow about we just have everyone strip naked and pass all our cloths and carry-ons through the scanner instead? There's no such thing as privacy in the Nazi-run American airports anyway.RE: Human x-ray machines: Coming soon to an airport near youI'm just going to ask for...

Tags: Infirmary, Human x-ray machine, X-ray

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

EZ-Format for Excel 7.3 (Windows)

Save time creating better formatted worksheets utilizing dozens of features too time consuming to implement using only Excel. In seconds turn unformatted data into a feature-rich, printer-ready formatted worksheet. Create subtotals mixing counts, sums, and Excel formulas on every subtotal row. Subtotals are completely bolded, shaded and correctly display when...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data Presentation Products, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Weather Watcher Live 6.1.15 (Windows)

Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts, and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. Weather Watcher will allow you to automatically retrieve your weather data at a set interval, display the current temperature in a customized tray icon, display the current condition...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Singer, Weather Data

Software downloads 2009-11-06