Category: Data analysis and Big Data

Doing data mining for other companies, have helped the data mining companies in many ways besides the services that they offer. In some cases, they have made several new businesses. There are two examples that are mentioned in “Big Data – A revolution” by Victor Mayer-Schoneberger and Kenneth Cukier In Amazon early days, Amazon made…

When we think about the brain and our ability to see, we realize that when we recognize people and see, we do not see everything as in a photograph but more see patterns. If the face matches the pattern that we recognized before as a person then we recognize him as such and not necessarily…

Databases a simple definition: Database is a collection of data that is managed as a single unit. There are Six major types or models of databases: Flat file databases: These were databases that managed all the data in one flat file. The file was just a list of items. There were several ways that this…

Databases are used everywhere and are critical to most of the informatics work that is done. They are also very critical part of Big data analysis Since databases store critical data, they are handled very carefully. They are obviously backed up regularly but also get replicated and distributed. With large databases, there are many ways…

As scientists make biological models, it is difficult to create frameworks of mathematics and formula’s around it. Usually this requires significant customization for each model. Dr Sorger’ Lab has developed a Python framework for creating systems biology models. These translate the equations to the models and allow a tedious task to be significantly simplified by…

Computational lexicology methods try to understand human behavior, cultural norms through analysis of texts. These methods try to enlist the usage of words through the years and conclude what has changed in human behavior over the years. There have been various studies done, one in particular in which Harvard scientists showed that nearly 50% of…

In spring, the flowers and trees blooming look very attractive but also signal a release of pollen which triggers allergies and hay fever in many people. Many drugs have become available to combat the symptoms but the release of pollen is significant. There is not much that can be done to control the amount of…

It is easy to see mathematics when you look at common things that we take for granted. For example the following pages were created from a website: http://ptaff.ca/soleil/?lang=en_CA. The raw data can also be got from the link below. Take a look at these graphs and think about what can you see. Steven Strogatz saw…

Data mining has several methods that analyze the data and come to conclusions on the data. The tools are a mixture of statistics, mathematics and reasoning. The tools are very useful and they help in come to conclusions very well. So if you are in the business of selling a commodity to the youth through…

There are several ways to search for information and often times the easiest is to just type the keyword in a search engine like Google and hope that it would find the article of interest. However, things are not quite simple when you look for things and hundreds of hits come up. For example, if…