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Data Mining Goes 3D

Posted by michael on from the patterns-of-change dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "At Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), a data mining and visualization software suite developed in the last two years is now able to extract information from many sources of data and to return 3D images as results. In Sandia's intelligence lab converts business data into 3-D images, the New Mexico Business Weekly reports that Sandia's Information Visualization Lab is able to search structured documents, such as scientific journals, or unstructured ones, such as the Web or an intranet. Since the lab has been established five months ago, this software has already been used to determine the potential of several partnerships with SNL. Other firms, such as Lockheed Martin, also are starting to use the lab. Let's hope that SNL releases this software as open source. It should be fun to use it. For more details and pictures, please read this overview."

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  1. 3D images? by Dorothy+86 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think they should report it as music!! (if you don't get the reference, it's from Dirk Gentlty's Holistic Decective Agency by Douglas Adams)

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  2. Oh god! They've discovered... by lxt · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Excel and PowerPoint! The nightmare has been unleashed!

    "In Sandia's intelligence lab converts business data into 3-D images," ...ie, really dodgy pie charts and bar graphs!

    1. Re:Oh god! They've discovered... by LostCluster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let's just hope they don't stumble into Microsoft Access next....

  3. HollywoodOS by Xpilot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just think, if Hollywood bothers to at least try and get some technical stuff even remotely realistic (and look cool), they could incorporate such things into movies. But no... we get a fusion reaction which you can control with metal tentacles (just push the little flames back in!).

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  4. for the trees by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Funny

    The technology is called "ClearForest", in homage to the continents of forests cleared for paper printouts of these 3D reports that PHBs will have shredded once they've "read" them.

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  5. paper? by cyklo · · Score: 2, Funny

    for 3D, they're going to have to carve them out of entire trunks. imagine the shredders you'd have to use...

  6. ObSimpsons by generationxyu · · Score: 2, Funny

    And turning to the 3D graph, we see an inmistakeable cone of ignorance.

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