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Text Mining Software for Business Intelligence

Text mining software for Business Intelligence Text mining software has become the foremost tool in the field of business intelligence based upon predictive analytics. This is because the most actionable data is found within unstructured text such as customer feedback forms or internal company documents. One of the first tasks that text mining software perfoms…

Splunk Your Data

The latest version of the Splunk analytics software which monitors all machine data from any enterprise digital device, has several improvements. Fully mobile capability since Flash-based displays are no longer used. User dashboards can be defined and edited entirely through the Splunk User Interface. An analyst or the CEO can take any data of interest and turn…

Hadoop Split Personality

Is Hadoop a computing framework or a specialized operating system?  Is it a dessert topping or a floor wax? (to swipe an old SNL routine). Or is it neither? Could it be that it’s main function is to effectively control the text  mining applications in a widely parallel distributive network for extracting usable data from…

Tolkien or Jackson: Free Analysis

Free Text Analytics Software Netlytic is the first free text mining tool we’ve come across. It performs automated text analysis and discovery of social networks, collected solely from digital footprints such as online forums, micro-blog messages, blog comments and chat logs.  This mining application scrubs collected text then detects themes in it to build a…

Text Mining With Calliope

Calliope is a different type of text mining tools, being more of a text synthesizer that can rapidly read massive amounts of unstructured text. Calliope cannot be used for web data analytics since it has no ability to crawl the internet pages.  Also, it is currently usable only on Windows.  Still Takes Human Intellect The…

Internet Time Machine Predicts The Future

According to the developers of The Internet Time Machine, a marketing niche only develops when the search volume (demand) increases while displaying a flat output of the search results (supply).  If you just have trends, or search volume, you will not make money without the other side of the equation: the results. ITM focuses on the…

The Nodes of the Text Miner®

A Node Like Any Other “Nodes” are what SAS calls their text analytics sub-tasks of their Text Miner® application for deriving business intelligence from unstructured text.  There are several nodes, of which the following are some major ones: There is the Import Node which routes text for possible anaysis into a storage area where the…

Text Mining Takes Flesh and Blood

Text Mining Tools — Required But Only One Small Part  The high volume of information in today’s companies must be controlled and exploited in ways that 1) reduce the irrelevant, 2) eliminate the redundant, and 3) that will sift the semantical chaff in ways that will still require human analysts to assess the resulting output…

Text Mining Post

Welcome to Text Mining Tools

We’re very pleased that you came by and we want to introduce you to the tricks and tools that are being developed and marketed to withdraw actionable conclusions from archives of unstructured text. The articles we will be presenting will be covering all aspects of the text mining industry with comments and insight from observers and reviewers….