Cambridge (ip-192.com): Researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard University have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called MINE, which stands for Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration, is able to analyze a broad spectrum of patterns. It [...]
MySQL fork: Drizzle 7 gets general release
March 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Atlanta (ip-192.com): Drizzle 7, a fork of MySQL 6.0, has gone into general availability. The open source database management system is written in the C++ programming language and features a client-server architecture. It also uses SQL as its primary command language. Targeted at the web-infrastructure and cloud computing markets, developers describe the database as a [...]
Google Refine: Tools to transform data sets
November 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): A new power tool to clean up data inconsistencies, and analyze or transform sets of data has been released by Google. Google Refine 2.0 is based on Metaweb Technologies Freebase Gridworks. The open source Java-based toolset can work with a variety of data sets and the resulting operations are portable. An expression [...]
Metaweb: Google buys semantic web db firm
July 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google announced that it has acquired open database company Metaweb Technologies to help improve the quality of its search results. The San Francisco based company has developed Freebase, a collaborative knowledge base of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual wiki contributions. Instead of using tables and keys as in conventional [...]
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