Analytics Tools

• Data Analytics Tools and Techniques

Analytics Tools	Analytics	URLs	Description
DISC	new start	www.pdl.cmu.edu/DISC	'We are formulating a plan'..."Data-Intensive Super Computing" (DISC) systems. DISC systems differ from conventional supercomputers in their focus on data: they acquire and maintain continually changing data sets, in addition to performing large-scale computations over the data.
Dryad	new start	http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dryad	The Dryad Project is investigating programming models for writing parallel and distributed programs to scale from a small cluster to a large data-center.
MapReduce	parallelization	http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html	Example
Hadoop	parallelization	http://hadoop.apache.org	'MapReduce is the programming paradigm, popularized by Google, which is widely used for processing large data sets in parallel. Its salient feature is that if a task can be formulated as a MapReduce, the user can perform it in parallel without writing any parallel code.
OpenCyc	knowledgebase	www.opencyc.org	EnterpriseCyc (or ECyc for short) is a commercial-grade, fully supported version of the knowledge base and reasoning technology, suitable for developing, deploying, and managing applications in an enterprise setting. The OpenCyc Platform is your gateway to the full power of Cyc, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. OpenCyc contains hundreds of thousands of Cyc terms organized in a carefully designed ontology. Cycorp offers this ontology at no cost and encourages you to make use of, and extend, this ontology rather than starting your own from scratch. OpenCyc can be used as the basis of a wide variety of intelligent applications such as: - rich domain modeling - semantic data integration - text understanding - domain-specific expert systems - game AIs
Powerset	knowledge query	www.powerset.com	Powerset was working on building a natural language search engine that could find targeted answers to user questions (as opposed to keyword based search)
True Knowledge	knowledge query	www.trueknowledge.com	Evi was founded in August 2005, originally under the name of True Knowledge, with the mission of powering a new kind of search experience where users can access the world’s knowledge simply by asking for the information they need in a way that is completely natural.
WolframAlpha	knowledge query with calculations	www.wolframalpha.com	Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers— not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods
myGrid	sharing knowledge	www.mygrid.org.uk	a suite of tools designed to “help e-Scientists get on with science and get on with scientists”. The tools support the creation of e-laboratories and have been used in domains as diverse as systems biology, social science, music, astronomy, multimedia and chemistry.
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