STATISTICA is the Primary Predictive Analytics Tool According to Rexer Survey

Rexer Analytics has just released the complete results of the Fourth Annual Rexer Data Mining survey(2010), the largest survey of data mining professionals in the industry(735 data miners from 60 countries participated). STATISTICA Data Miner and STATISTICA Text Miner software received top ratings including the highest rating as the primary predictive analytics tools,for user satisfaction,and for "expectation of continued use" of any competing software products.
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Blogs About STATISTICA- March Madness: Now with Pie Charts

StatSoft recently added new bloggers. You will find these blogs to be very educational as well as entertaining. Here is a sneak peak by Amanda Shankel-Knowlton.

A simplified bit of background for those unfamiliar: Each year in March,64 college basketball teams engage in a tournament.In each round of the tournament,half of the teams are eliminated until there are four teams (The Final Four).Two games then decide which two teams end up in the Championship Game,which determines the winner of the tournament.

When the teams are selected to participate in the tournament, they are assigned to one of four groups and each team is ranked with a "seed" from 1 to 16, with 1s supposedly being the "best," 2s being the second best, and so on. You can see this year's field of teams here.

A few of my friends and I compete every year in making predictions for which teams will win each stage of the tournament.Working for an analytics software company, it seems like I should pick winning teams using some sort of rational, left-brained method and not just which team mascot (or team coach!) is cuter. So this year, I made a pie chart using some wonderful data I found at CBSSports.com.
I wanted to see how good of a predictor the team's assigned seed was for both advancing to The Final Four and...
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Spotlight Blog on Dean Abbott

Recently I sat down with Dean Abbott, and he took a moment to discuss his use of STATISTICA.

1. What is your background (career, education, etc.)?

My undergraduate degree is in Mathematics of Computation from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with a minor in Electrical Engineering (1985). I have a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia (1987). I began working at a small aerospace engineering company...
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Cannot Draw Graph Solutions?

Occasionally in working with graphs in STATISTICA, you may encounter a graph that cannot be drawn. This can be due to a number of possibilities. This article will discuss potential causes of graph rendering issues and solutions to those issues.
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