Unfortunately RapidMiner resources are very limited, reason is (afaik) the name change (former 'yale') and of course that it is commercial (they want to sell their expensive courses :).
I don't know of any usegroup, there is a forum afaik on their site. I'm playing around with it currently (text classification, etc) but it's a pretty cool tool with a lot of functionality. On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:39:39AM -0800, Owen wrote: > > Solars, > > Love to hear what you are doing with RapidMiner. Data mining, text > analysis, predictive modeling are other areas we are working on. Be > great to use Ruby as the interface, just like Google is doing with the > SketchUp API. > > Is there a Google group? > > -Owen > > On Dec 14, 9:29 am, solars <[email protected]> wrote: > > Owen, > > > > Kudos to you for using all this on a win32 platform, I remember I > > had _a lot_ of problems running rails or ruby apps on windows, > > sometimes. But maybe I just don't have the patience, being used to > > linux. > > > > Glad to hear you want to try JRuby! That's pretty cool, I'm already > > using it (interfacing with Rapidminer, a java datamining app). It's > > really cool, especially since the whole business world is totally > > focused on java. > > > > I did not yet try rails on jruby - but well, now that you mention > > it, why not :) > > > > I can imagine the pushback you are facing when using something like > > ruby or rails in the business world. Although I'm don't have much to > > do with it, we are encountering it a lot at university. I don't > > understand it, it's like things other than Java or similar > > business standards don't even exist and are evil - without a real > > reason. > > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:13:31AM -0800, Owen wrote: > > > > > Solars, > > > > > Yes, you are right, we are required to use Windows on the desktop, so > > > we help Tom and James with debugging issues there. We wish the Windows > > > E-Text Editor was as good as TextMate, but what can you do? > > > > > We are also required to run production apps on Enterprise Redhat > > > Linux, and have both MySQL and Oracle databases connected to Hobo. > > > Oracle might not seem important to most is other countries, but it is > > > still the most used in the US for large applications. > > > > > We hope to soon test Hobo with JRuby, now that JRuby 1.6 works with > > > Rails 2.2.2 and has multithreading. We have had a couple of > > > discussions with the Sun team about this. They seem very supportive. > > > > > Being able to deploy a Hobo app to an already supported application > > > server (e.g, JBoss or GlassFish) helps to bridge the hurdle of > > > acceptance in the "Enterprise." You won't believe the pushback we > > > got from the USDA Operations team about installing the latest Ruby on > > > Redhat Linux. Redhat didn't support it! What a joke. Finally our > > > forward-looking CIO intervened and gave the green light! > > > > > -Owen- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
