wahlau ..... suddenly this has become interesting quick replies
azrul, i am looking for something other than java / point taken that scala is not java ---- hopefully, this will not make me your immortal enemy amran, as boh rightly pointed out bi is oversold - now even crystal reports is considered bi (b**ls**t). that's why i have labelled our product analytics. unfortunately i googled for php etl and php modelling - but there are none. sweemeng, thanks. from the scrapy site i found this http://data.gov.uk/ . besides web scrapping, we also need file scrapping. for now we web scrape using php, and file scrape using openoffice and java etl. chow, you read my thots correctly. yes, we are looking for modelling. boh, huge thanks ;-) yes, i am looking for mathematical and statistical modelling that can handle huge arrays . besides scipy, numpy, i have also found rpy (for statistics) also found an etl tool in python called snaplogic. next question, numpy, scipy and snaplogic are all client / desktop applications. would django be a good web framework as a web ui to work with numpy, scipy and snaplogic ? any good ide for python (code completion, syntax highlighting, user defined functions / libraries, git) ? and finally, if i said i wanted to develop this on python because google uses python... will capitalist be rushing to my front door offering wads of dosh (meaning lots and lots of money ?) // freakonomics and wikinomics inspired some of the stuff i am thinking of doing On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Boh Yap <[email protected]> wrote: > hi > > no offense to you or anyone else, but I can't help but reply.... > > BI is being made to be such a "big deal", its nothing more than a term > being dreamt up by marketeers to sell something that economists have > been doing for a long time: applying mathematical techniques to data, > except that this data set is 'local' to a business, as opposed to a > whole country. Its nothing more than analysing data and presenting it > graphically, thats all. In the old days it was called DSS, or EIS > (Decision Support System, Executive Info System). But the marketeers > had to re-clothe the emperor each time... ;-) > > Its purpose was to present analysis and data to management types whose > knowledge of maths is only mediocre (high-school calculus is not a > prerequisitr to do a Business Degree...). > > And hacking data is hacking data, the tools are the same, in science > or in biz, and scientists and mathematicians do it better than the > biz types. > > Scientists/mathematicians (and often economists) look for truth in the > numbers, biz. types look look for numbers to present their version of > truth! (case in point: the recent wall street meltdown!) > > --apologies~~ the above is my attempt at humour, satire and sarcsm ;-) > read the book "Freakonomics" - by SD Levit... > > > -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" 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/osdcmy-list?hl=en
