Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-24 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
boh... i am hugely grateful to you again for pointing me to gapminder. now i know where data explorer came about my lead developer stumbled upon google data explorer a month ago which we then added as a widget at ida2.krimnet.com my client would love to see this gapminder applied for

Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-24 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
hi Raja, talking about hacking data, I found another video that illustrates how to visualize and view data, medical data, this is data that crowd-sourced, on the web, and contribute back to empowering the users. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMSGP2ONfBcfeature=channel Fantastic stuff, almost

Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-24 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
many thanks again for the video. my thots is that it is like a community network for clinical trials - awesome ! taking back and having access to data on our healthcare back from the pharmaceutical and labrats. i wanted to do something like this for addressing poverty in terengganu. looking at

Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-23 Terurut Topik Ahmad Amran Kapi
I think Raja is talking about Business Intelligence like Pentaho http://www.pentaho.com/ , the dimensional is about the data that you can manipulate as you wish. Not my cup of tea though. Ahmad Amran Kapi Art In Software Sdn Bhd Suite 2.5 Inkubator K-Ekonomi 75450 Ayer Keroh Melaka. 06-2322464 /

Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-23 Terurut Topik Azrul MADISA
I would suggest scala 1. extracting tables from web pages and converting them to text files -- DONE http://www.hars.de/2009/01/html-as-xml-in-scala.html http://john-d-amos.blogspot.com/2009/08/vrbo-web-scraper-using-scala-and.html 2. transforming / restructuring the data into dimensional models

Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-23 Terurut Topik CL Chow
Offtopic, Lift is quite interesting too :) Regards, CL Chow Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/; On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Azrul MADISA azrulha...@gmail.com wrote: I would suggest scala 1.

Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-23 Terurut Topik sweemeng ng
sheep, lolz. django is nice because it give you many thing needed, like authentication, admin page etc. and it just python, though if you need advance database query, i have my doubt. on the other hand there is plenty of framework around the market, pick one integrating scipy should work, i used

Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-22 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
thanks boh. this looks promising. the specific things that i am looking are small backend processing stuff. examples are : 1. extracting tables from web pages and converting them to text files 2. transforming / restructuring the data into dimensional models 3. analytical regressions on the

Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-22 Terurut Topik sweemeng ng
1) sounds like web scraping, you can cook one up easily with python, python have a built-in http library, and html parser, though a better idea is to use tools like scrapy, 2) need clarification 3) python itself don't do that, there is a numpy, which is something like matlab for python(i am

Re: [osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-22 Terurut Topik CL Chow
I suppose it's mathematical modelling??? Regards, CL Chow Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/; On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, sweemeng ng swees...@gmail.com wrote: 1) sounds like web scraping, you

[osdcmy-public] Language to Replace Java

2010-04-21 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
good day all any suggestion for language to replace java the type of applications that we are looking at are http://rapid-i.com/ http://kettle.pentaho.org/ -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577