On 6/28/09, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually I'm liking the suggest to try using R. I have already managed > to read my data files using the read.csv function. When I understand > headers and tables better I'll likely be able to make my plots from > that data pretty easily. It's cross platform so it solves that problem > and keeps me focused on where I might add value - evaluating the > market data - and not worrying about how to program in C or Python. > > Open to other ideas but this one is looking pretty good to me so far.
If you have your data in a text-like, tabular format that R likes then you might also try feeding them into a data mining package like Weka. Depending on what kind of analysis you are looking for, it might be even better (and easier) than R -- or entirely unsuitable. :) -- Arttu V.
