Comments on: DecisionStudio Professional – Desktop BI Platform

By: Nishith

Nishith — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:06:54 +0000

Hi Dwight,
The feed for the posts is at http://opensourceanalytics.com/feed

Your blog reader should be able to find it on its own.

I am able to subscribe using Sage reader on Firefox. Do let me know if you face any problems.

-N

By: dwight

dwight — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:52:10 +0000

where is the rss feed for this site?
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By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:02:25 +0000

I am familiar with Weka but have not done much R, but one thing that stands out to me is the Weka GUI makes it pretty easy to build quick models, while R requires knowledge of R scripting or Rpy.

On the other hand Weka is already easy enough for people to install on Windows. Also I’m not sure how Weka would go putting the results back into a db, for example. It would probably require programming (just as it would for R/Rpy), so maybe R/Rpy is more appropriate for this platform.

By: Nishith

Nishith — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:13:03 +0000

Yup, we’ll fix these. And putting a list of software components in the installer is a good idea.

I had toyed with the idea of putting in Weka for quite sometime but finally included R Environment instead. I thought that putting both (R & Weka) together may confuse end-users, as you should be able to do the same things within R. Unless I am missing something…

Whats your thought?

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:17:13 +0000

Ok maybe I misunderstood. Anyway here is some further feedback:

* iReport was installed without checking for Java!

* Installer could ask if you would like to start MySQL, or even if you would like it started at each reboot.

* Actual software components not listed in the installer?? Could be listed like they appear in the start menu.

* Other ideas for possible inclusion:
* WEKA?

By: Nishith

Nishith — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:34:27 +0000

Hmmm… GPL just ensures that as a consultant when you deploy a solution (for free or at a fee) you agree to provide the source code to the client, and cannot prevent the client from making copies and derivative works from your provided solution.

As a consultant this is something you’d anyway be doing for your client.

That’s my understanding, though I am not a legal expert. I’ll figure out some more on this…

Thanks for the post on your blog.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:58:43 +0000

I installed it an I like it. Lots of packages in there I hadn’t seen before. I haven’t done R before and I like the idea of the Python R integration. However is there a licensing issue with using rpy for your commercial work?

For example if I was a consultant am I allowed to deployed a Rpy solution for a client? I know writing R scripts is allowed under the GPL but by using python you are actually linking against the GPLed Rpy… If this is the case its a real shame, because it will reduce the usefulness of rpy in the real world.

By: Shane’s Blog » Blog Archive » DecisionStudio Professional

Shane’s Blog » Blog Archive » DecisionStudio Professional — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:53:15 +0000

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By: Nishith

Nishith — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:30:21 +0000

Shane,
Thanks for pointing out the dead link. I’ve fixed it now. (What would I do without help from good souls!!)

I’ll try and put up some screenshots on sourceforge and will put out a post when that is done.

Dratz,
Do spend some time with the modeler (R Environment). Our examples are not as good as I would have wanted, and you can try out some of the external links on the Modeler documentation page. I am completely sold on R Environment which is probably the best that is around.

By: Shane Butler

Shane Butler — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:51:51 +0000

Sounds interesting! Any chance of screenshots? Also your pdf link is dead…