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Megaputer to Release New Data Mining Solution

By Scott Bekker
01/19/2000

Megaputer Intelligence will release PolyAnalyst 4.0, the newest version of its data mining solution. PolyAnalyst 4.0 is a major upgrade of the system and includes many new features:

Interactive 3D graphics.
Market Basket Analysis algorithm for processing transactional data.
Memory Based Reasoning algorithm based on a combination of Nearest Neighbor and Genetic algorithms. The new method is used for classification into multiple categories as well as prediction of numerical variables.
Implementation of DCOM architecture.
Support for Microsoft's forthcoming OLE DB for Data Mining.
Support for the analysis of large datasets.
Redesigned user interface.
Dynamic HTML reports for exploration engines.
Mouse-driven Rule Assistant for creation of user-defined transformation rules.
Lift and Gain charts for interpreting the results obtained by machine learning algorithms.
Snake chart for visual comparison of different data sets.
Chart designer for the development of custom charts.
PA Scheduler, enabling batch process data mining in PolyAnalyst.
Sampling capabilities, allowing random selection of records from a dataset.
Direct data exchange with Oracle Express and IBM Visual Warehouse.