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Apache
Velocity
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Velocity is a Javabased template
engine. Its
template language
references objects
defined in Java
code. When
Velocity is used
for web
development, Web
designers can
work in parallel
with Java
programmers to
develop web sites.
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Velocity has
broader uses, such
as generation of
SQL, PostScript
and XML from
templates. It can
be used either as a
standalone utility
for generating
source code and
reports, or as an
integrated
component of
other systems.
iMacros was
designed to
automate the most
repetitious tasks
on the web. With
iMacros, you can Basic
quickly fill out
programming Free www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox
web forms,
skills
remember
passwords, create
a webmail notifier,
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other sites, scrape
the Web (get data
from multiple
sites), and more.
You can keep the
macros on your
computer for your
own use, or share
them with others
by embedding
them on your
homepage, blog,
company Intranet
or any social
bookmarking
service.
Web professionals
can use iMacros
for functional,
performance, and
regression testing
of web
applications. The
built-in
STOPWATCH
command captures
precise web page
response times.
iMacros also
includes support
for many AJAX
elements.
iMacros can be
combined with
other extensions
such as
Greasemonkey,
Web Developer,
Firebug, Stylish,
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NoScript, PDF
Download,
Foxmarks,
Fasterfox, All-inOne Sidebar,
Megaupload,
Foxyproxy,
Flashblock and
Adblock.
Mathematica is a
computational
platform used by
scientists,
engineers and
mathematicians.
Mathematica has
support for
equation solving,
numerical
analysis, as well as
graphing and
visualization.
Mathematica has
import and export
filters for tabular
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data, images,
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Mathematica
programming
video, sound,
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skills
CAD, GIS
documents and
biomedical
formats. There is
support for data
mining tools such
as cluster analysis,
sequence
alignment and
pattern matching
as well as text
mining support.
The programming
feature supports
functional,
procedural, and
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Microsoft
SQL Server
Analysis
Services
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object oriented
styles of
programming.
Microsoft SQL
Server Analysis
Services (SSAS) is
part of Microsoft
SQL Server,
which is a
relational database
management
system (RDBMS).
SSAS contains
online analytical
processing
(OLAP) and data
mining
functionality for
business
intelligence
applications.
Many of the
Basic
business
Costprogramming
intelligence and
basis
skills
data mining
functions within
SSAS are
applicable to
environmental
datasets. Mining
historical data
using SSAS can
provide new
insights and form
a basis for
forecasting, and
may be
particularly
interesting for
analysis of
environmental
time series data.
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SSAS supports
OLAP by assisting
you in designing,
creating, and
managing
multidimensional
structures that
contain data
aggregated from
other sources,
such as relational
databases. OLAP
data cubes
constructed using
SSAS can be
accessed using
Microsoft Excel,
which can be a
powerful way to
present data to
potential users. In
data mining
applications,
SSAS can assist
you in designing,
creating, and
visualizing data
mining models
that are
constructed from
data sources using
a wide variety of
industry-standard
data mining
algorithms.
OAIster is a freely
accessible search
engine for open
access web
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resources,
programming
available from
OCLC. OAIster
uses the Open
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Access Initiative
Protocol for
Metadata
Harvesting (OAIPMH) to harvest
records from
websites. OAIster
contains over 25
million records
from all
disciplines and
subjects
contributed by
over 1,000
libraries, archives,
and repositories.
The records
harvested by
OAIster use
Dublin Core
(unqualified)
metadata format.
Repository
managers running
OAI-compliant
repositories can
contribute records
for open access
web resources.
OAIster records
can be searched
separately at the
website, and are
incorporated into
OCLC Worldcat.
The Outwit suite
of Firefox
extensions that
allows you to
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harvest materials programming
on the web. The
suite currently
includes Outwit
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(Pro) available for a charge. Click here
for comparison of the free and licensed
versions:
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Hub, Outwit
Images, and
Outwit Docs.
OutWit Hub
allows you to
automatically
browse through
pages, collect and
format data and
information on the
web. It will
automatically
explore series of
Web pages or
search engine
results for you and
extract contacts,
links, images,
data, news, etc.
You can use the
Hub's default
scraping utilities
to help you extract
data with explicit
structures in the
HTML source
code of the page,
such as lists or
tables. Also, you
can build scripts
that will navigate
from page to page
in sequences of
results and
automatically
extract quantities
of information
objects. Results
can be exported
into MS Excel.
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SAS
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OutWit Images is
a Firefox
extension for
simple image
browsing. With
OutWit Images, as
you explore the
web for pictures,
you can create,
save, and share
collections. Also,
you can
automatically
explore Web
pages or search
engine results for
pictures, and
create, save and
share your
collections.
OutWit Images
can create fullscreen slideshows
for image
collections.
SAS is an
integrated system
of software that
enables everything
from data access
across multiple
sources to
complex
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manipulations of
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data files to
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performance of
sophisticated
statistical analyses
and data
visualizations.
Three of SAS'
most popular
software products
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Khattree, Ravindra and
Dayanand N. Naik. 2000.
Multivariate Data Reduction and
Discrimination with SAS
Software. Cary, NC: SAS
Institute Inc. 978-1-58025-357-4
Littell, Ramon C., George A. Mi
lliken, Walter W. Stroup, Russell
D. Wolfinger, and Oliver
Schabenberger. 2006.SAS for
Mixed Models, Second Edition.
Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
ISBN: 978-1-59047-500-3
SAS Essentials: A Guide to
Mastering SAS for Research.
2010. Elliott, Alan C. and Wayne
A. Woodward. San Francisco:
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that are commonly
used by ecologists
are Base SAS,
SAS/STAT, and
SAS/GRAPH.
SAS is available
for Windows and
UNIX platforms.
GUIs make SAS
accessible to
novice users and
the command-line
interface
facilitates
development of
programs for
complex data
processing.
SAS Enterprise
Miner streamlines
the data mining
process to create
predictive and
descriptive models
based on analysis
of large amounts
of data. Data can
be accessed from
local files or from
remote database
connections. SAS Advanced
data mining
software uses a
point-and-click
interactive
interface to create
workflows and
analysis diagrams,
and then execute
them. SAS Miner
can transform and
manipulate data
using filters and
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John Wiley and Sons, Inc. ISBN:
978-0470461297
Delwiche, Lora D. and Susan J.
Slaughter. 2008. The Little SAS
Book: A Primer (Fourth Edition).
Cary, NC: Sas Institute Inc.
ISBN: 978-1-59994-725-9
Burlew, Michele. 2009.
Combining and Modifying SAS
Data Sets: Examples, Second
Edition. Cary, NC: SAS Institute
Inc. ISBN: 978-1-59047-920-9
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statistical analyses
to extract desired
data from large
datasets.
Spotfire Miner is
software for data
mining of large
datasets. It is sold
commerically by
TIBCO.
Users can connect
to remote or local
datasets, apply
statistical and
methodological
filters, clean and
transform the data,
and finally apply a
Spotfire
model to produce
Miner
the desired mined
data. Statistical
models include
clustering,
regression
analysis, and
principal
components
analysis. Models
based on historical
data can then be
used to predict
future results
based on newly
mined data.
STATISTICA is a
proprietary
analytical software
STATISTICA package
developed by
StatSoft that
includes data
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visualization, data
analysis, data
management, and
data mining tools.
It is a primarily
graphical user
interface (GUI)
application.
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