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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

Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos

google should move away from linuxI suppose they could easily take away all those messes of the current os by doing that. Haha! Crummy-um "Chromium OS and Open Source" video-- the guy is calling it Crummy-um! Sounds about right.RE: Chrome OS: Some Early Preview VideosAnd ZDNet falls hook, line,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ChromeOS, Chrome, Chrome OS, early Preview Video, operating system, Preview Video, video

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

SmartSync Pro 3.1 (Windows)

SmartSync Pro is a universal tool for backing up and synchronizing your important data to your local drive; external flash, USB, or ZIP drive; CD or DVD; NAS or other storage device; network volume; or even remote computer. If source data is destroyed or lost, it can easily be recovered....

Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, File, SmartSync Software, SmartSync Pro, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Productivity, Storage, Networking, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Super Flexible File Synchronizer 4.80 (Mac)

Back up your data and synchronize Macs, PCs, servers, notebooks, and online storage space. You can set up as many different jobs as you need and run them manually or using the scheduler. The software comes with support for Zipping, FTP, SSH/SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and data encryption. There are...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Super Flexible Software, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-19

A Better Finder Rename 8.41 (Mac)

A Better Finder Rename is the most complete renaming solution available on the market today. That's why, since 1996, thousands of hobbyists, professionals and businesses depend on A Better Finder Rename to organize and maintain files. A Better Finder Rename's user interface supports complex renaming tasks without sacrificing ease and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, File, Small And Medium Business, Better Finder Rename, Instant Preview Feature, Smb/Sme

Software downloads 2009-11-19

FoneSync for Samsung phones 1.0.3 (Mac)

Synchronise your Samsung phone with your Mac in a few easy steps!Finally there is an easy way to synchronise your Samsung phone with your Mac. FoneSync allows you to synchronize contacts, calendar entries or both by a one-button-click. FoneSync for Samsung phones can easily be set to synchronize separate address...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Nova Media, FoneSync, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise

Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-18