Data Mining and Cleaning 2.0™
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Put on your hardhat, because you'll be data mining further than ever before with this new tool Numerical Algorithms Group (Downers Grove, IL) has made data mining possible for companies whose imperfect data might
not otherwise be a suitable candidate—like yours, for instance.
NAG has incorporated big changes into its updated Data Mining and Cleaning Components software. Specifically, it has added
on the results of the three-year EU-funded EUREDIT project to get the most out of data mining. That, combined with the brainpower
of the over 300 mathematicians and scientists who comprise NAG, has led to DMC 2.0.
The new program has enhanced data cleaning options, better outlier identification results, a new memory-efficient multivariate
statistical method, and new abilities for machine learning and pattern recognition. In short, the odds are better that 2.0
will find something worthwhile when it looks through your data.
As of press time, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, AIX (32-bit), Solaris, and Alpha versions were expected to be available. The product
is designed to be incorporated into existing applications, and users can choose what features they want implemented. Numerical Algorithms Group, (630) 971- 2337, http://www.nag.co.uk.
CTmail™
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Let all of your sites sift through each other's mail with ePeople's public email folders for work subjects ePeople's (Mountain View, CA) CTmail™ idea is a mixture of personal folders and an office's shared network for storing communal
files. It makes email a tool for intercompany communication, not just cute forwards. When an email regarding protocol, adverse events, start-up, or drop-out is sent, it gets logged into a central knowledge base
for all to see. This way, one site's valid question can be read by all, turning each email into a bulletin board post and
saving repetitive questions. Better leave the PI's surprise party emails in the personal email section, though.
There are many advantages of making selected correspondences public domain. Monitors can see what's going on at the site level.
CTmail works in sync with Microsoft Outlook, the most common office email program, and can handle over 100 separate sites
worth of inboxes.
ePeople says that after using CTmail, you'll find hidden resource bases you weren't aware you had, by giving them an incentive
to share their knowledge whenever appropriate. This also lets the CRAs have more time on their hands, since they don't have
to be the one person who knows what's going on.
ePeople, (650) 694-6400, http://www.epeople.com.
It's not the latest in fashion, but a continuous ambulatory monitoring system in a black sleeveless t-shirt VivoMetrics (Ventura, CA) is to thank for no longer having to tape half a hundred sensors to a subject's torso and telling
them to act "natural." The days of wires streaming from subjects' chests are over.
LifeShirt™ System
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Its LifeShirt™ System is an actual machine-washable black sleeveless shirt that subjects wear. Embedded in the shirt are sensors
to record over 30 cardiopulmonary signs—volume, timing, derivative, acceleration measures, as well as dozens more. All that gets recorded on a PDA the wearer carries around in his or her pocket, collected automatically.
If that's not enough data, an optional Serial Expansion module allows up to six additional peripherals. Choose from EEG devices,
capnographs, pulse oximeters, leg activity monitors, tympanic membrane temperature sensors, blood pressure monitors, or even
microphones.
The shirt went through its first successful trial recently at Washington State University's Intercollegiate College of Nursing.
The test was to determine stress and anxiety levels while taking a computer test.
VivoMetrics, (805) 275-5834, http://www.vivometrics.com.
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