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Nov 30, 1999 / Vol. 3, No. 48

The On-Line Executive Journal for Data-Intensive Decision Support

IN THIS ISSUE:

UNDERSTANDING TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
CAN BRAIN WAVES REVEAL CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR?
QUADSTONE INKS MAJOR TELECOM CONTRACTS

Executive Editor-at-Large Inderpal Bhandari presents a guest editorial by Virtual Gold's Acting Director of Research:

Time series analysis is an analytical technique that is broadly applicable to a wide variety of domains. In domains in which data are collected at specific (usually equally spaced) intervals a time series analysis can reveal useful patterns and trends related to time. Industrial as well as governmental agencies rely on time series analysis for both historical understanding as well forecasting and predictive modeling. In this week's column, the basics of the statistical approach to an analysis of time series are presented. Next week, in part II, we'll look at what commercial data mining applications offer with regard to time series analyses.

Capita's systems, which measure human attention, utilize electroencephalogram (EEG) technology licensed under an exclusive agreement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to measure electrical activity in the human brain, or the level of stimulation in response to stimuli.

Edinburgh-based software house and customer behaviour specialist, Quadstone has secured deals totalling over 1.2m euros with three of Europe's top telecommunications companies. The triple deal comes in as many months and centers on Quadstone's customer behaviour modelling packages, Decisionhouse and Transactionhouse, that fended off rival bids from high profile US competition.

Accrue Software Buys Data Mining Specialist NeoVista
The deal, expected to close in January, calls for Accrue to exchange 2.4 million shares of common stock for NeoVista, a privately held company with 45 employees in Cupertino, Calif.

SPSS Uses Datamining To Predict Success For James Bond
Using data from 20 years of James Bond films, SPSS has figured out which aspects are the biggest crowd-getters. Find out how "The World Is Not Enough" stacks up against its predecessors.

BrainTech To Develop New Internet Based Software
BrainTech Inc. announced that it has entered into a development contract with Sideware Systems Inc. to develop a new and proprietary, knowledge-based software component for the Internet.

Brio Announces Impact Enhancements 11.30.99
Available immediately, Brio.Impact 4.0 includes an integrated extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) capability for faster implementation that reduces deployment time by as much as one third.

Baseline To Expand Data Warehouse Software
Baseline Consulting Group has announced the expansion of its popular Data Warehouse Technology Implementation Review service to include the assessment of a client's Internet delivery strategy.

Community Of Science Partners With SDSC
COS and SDSC will collaborate on a broad range of projects, including the development of extensible markup language (XML) standards for documents relevant to scientists and scholars.

Sybase Claims To Lead In DW Performance
Sybase, Inc. announced the results of a significant performance test with Adaptive Server IQ(12). A series of similar benchmarks have demonstrated the performance of Sybase's flagship database for data warehousing.

"When you apply the analytics to the data we store, you can do a lot of interesting things."

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Nov 30, 1999 / Vol. 3, No. 48

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