Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: R

  • Building An Analytical Platform

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    Reprint of an article published by SAP about a recent piece of work I have recently been asked to build an analytical platform for a project – but what is an analytical platform? The client (a retailer) described it as a database where they could store data, a front end where they could do statistical work…

  • Installing R and RStudio on Redhat/CentOS Linux

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    As part of our forthcoming magazine article “Building an Analytical Platform” for SAP we described the need to install both R and RStudio. Our test system is an older CentOs 5.8 Linux box and so needs to use the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) packages As ‘root’ on your system perform the following four…

  • Our Software

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    Over the years we have produced several utilities and open source projects. List list provides some information about their status GROUT – ETL tool including DAP & SQLUnload written in Korn Shell, C & PL/SQL – superseded by JST – code available on request JST – ETL tool written in Bash Shell – superseded by…

  • An Introduction To Social Network Data

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    An internal training presentation from May 2012 Social Networks such as Facebook are everywhere. They gather a wide range of data about each and everyone of us who joins their ranks. This presentation looks at what data they collect and how it is used by application developers and marketeers. It also looks at how to…