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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. OSS can't be everything... by LostCluster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Come on.... Let's hope that SNL releases this software as open source.

    Wouldn't the work of a government-funded national lab be public domain if it ever were to be released?

    As great as OSS is, the only truely free license with absoultely no restrictions is public domain, and that's what works of the government usually become.

  2. Data Mining *WENT* 3D... by dwater · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... along time ago. Purple|Insight

    Some nice screen shots there too :)

    Mineset detail
    Network Analysis
    Intrusion Detection
    Fraud Detection

    --
    Max.