[apple scitech] Cross-platform database/data analysis suggestions?

Subject: [apple scitech] Cross-platform database/data analysis suggestions?

From: "Barry M. Wise" <email@hidden>

Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:27:18 -0700

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On May 21, 2008, at 6:27 AM, Tom Pollard wrote:

I guess what motivated these questions was my trying to imagine
whether Matlab made any sense for this application. While it's useful
for number crunching and plotting, (as far as I know) it provides no
spreadsheet-like facilities for data entry.

Not so. MATLAB allows you to edit matrices in a spreadsheet like format. And its always

easy to work on small ones and augment them onto existing larger ones.

Our product, PLS_Toolbox, expands on that, and includes a spreadsheet-like data set

editor that keeps track of sample and variable labels, plotting axes, class information,

soft deletes, etc. and lots of internal consistency checks so that you do things that

don't make sense (like try to associate 20 sample labels with 19 samples).

If the users were willing
to enter all of the data in a big file, then Matlab could load that
file, crunch the numbers and produce the report, but this isn't really
what Matlab is good for.

But even if you were using just MATLAB, that isn't how you'd do it anyway. You'd read

in the pieces in their native format (text, csv, or from xls, etc.) and put them together

in MATLAB.

Best regards....

BMW

Barry M. Wise, Ph.D.

President

Eigenvector Research, Inc.

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Wenatchee, WA 98801

Phone: (509)662-9213

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Web: eigenvector.com

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