Thanks Dave,
That bit of info helps. I checked with our stats person, and she thinks it's
patently ridiculous to have the stats run in real time without
interpretation. So, I think I'll be checking into an odbc connection to the
completed datasets option.
-d
Deanna Schneider
Interactive Media
The Virtual Data Center project (thedata.org) in the
U.S. and NESSTAR in Europe have similar objectives to
allow online data procesing of large datasets from
multiple organizations, subject to certain security
constraints. As your project is a less ambitious one
involving only data from a single
We played a little bit...a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away :-)
Actually, we did some stuff with SAS by establishing an ODBC connection to
an existing SAS dataset, which then could be displayed with CF.
But if you don't have SAS that could be a problem.
Dave Deeds
Idaho Power Company
You might be able to use CF to call C routines that crunch the numbers but
CF itself would be too slow. I have used MATLAB but it's expensive. A free
solution would be to use python with a matrix library (numeric), maybe C
extensions, and gnuplot to generate the ever important visuals.
On Wed,
Is your database at the same location as the SAS server? Why not let SAS
feed reports back out to your site leaving the heavy processing on the SAS
side rather than on CF. Some of the standard SAS-generated html reports are
pretty ugly but you can improve that if your willing to invest the time.
While MATLAB costs money, GNU Octave (which does everything MATLAB does,
sometimes even better) is free. It would not be difficult to use Octave
instead of MATLAB. I have used Octave for some Linear Algebra work and found
it just as good in Octave in almost every way. (As in, there was nothing I
I don't really know much about SAS or SPSS, but my understanding was that
folks are using a desktop version to do their crunching. Is that even
possible, or does a server have to exist somewhere that I could potentially
tap into? (If there is a server, it's not one of ours. It would belong to
the
and retrieve the results,
but I am pretty sure it could be done.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:12 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Advanced Statistical Analysis
I don't really know much about SAS or SPSS, but my
: RE: Advanced Statistical Analysis
You can use SAS on the desktop. They could save SAS datasets to a location
accessible by the web server or on a db server, and if you have the ODBC
option the sas dataset can be queried like any db.
An other option, depending on how good your sas guys
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