Category Archives: analytics software

Log Analyzer Tools – A Few Important Pointers

When there’s a machine, there’s functionality. However, anything is always bound to mishaps and therefore if you have a computer (and of course you do because, you know, you are reading this right now) or if you are managing a group of people that do tasks on workstations, that means you need some valuable tools…

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…