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Science Analytics – look to use Project “Gemini”
21 August 09 09:34 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
When I first saw and heard details about Project “Gemini” , I was blown away by the technology and innovation created by SQL and Excel teams and that held up when I was able to test it out on my own.  It will be especially useful for scientists that Read More...
OLAP and Scientific Data
20 August 08 03:57 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
While I’ve been pushing the ideas of using OLAP data cubes to evaluate scientific data for awhile, I thought it might be a good time to pull together some relevant papers and links. I believe OLAP is ideal to help analyze large quantities of data including Read More...
[Papers] Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend; There is Life beyond Files
08 April 08 11:00 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
In a discussion I had today around ways to advance a scientific problem I was reminded of Jim Gray and Gerd Heber's trilogy - Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend .  The three papers are really a good resource for Read More...
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Galaxy Zoo - Help classify a million galaxies
11 July 07 09:11 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Thanks to Alex Szalay (JHU) for pointing me to GalaxyZoo - now you can help classify galaxies. This really neat... Welcome to GalaxyZoo , the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies. By taking Read More...
Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback in Community Computing Projects
09 July 07 04:18 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
I meant to do an entry on this paper by Stuart Ozer (MSR) and David Kim & David Baker ( Rosetta@Home ) months ago...it's a great way to integrate SQL Reporting services w/ something like Rosetta@Home, and provide really great service for not only Read More...
Virtual Labs - giving away a Camera
16 May 07 02:31 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Just saw that the Virtual Labs folks are giving away a camera for using the labs... I'd recommend the Business Intelligence: Excel 2007 PivotTables and Analysis Services Creating a Distributed Application with C# Introducing Content Types for Microsoft Read More...
Dynameomics - Protein folds by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
10 May 07 09:54 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Valerie Daggett and her team at UW have put up a site with their simulations of over 300 proteins for a combined simulation time of more than 35 microseconds. This site contains information for their top 30 targets. The other interesting part is that Read More...
Data Mining Addins for Office 2007 (Excel & Visio)
28 February 07 05:08 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
I think of the Data Mining Addins for Excel 2007 , as data mining tools for common man - they allow anyone to use SQL Server Analysis Services without having to know how to program the backend. It allows you to look for Key Influencers, Detect Categories, Read More...
SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 CTP
19 December 06 07:15 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
So glad to see the CTP of Data Mining Add-ins available - I see this is as Data Mining for the rest of us... Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 (Data Mining Add-ins) allow you take advantage of SQL Server 2005 predictive analytics Read More...
Mundie: Science as a Web Service
08 December 06 02:47 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I realized I forgot to post about Craig Mundie's article in the March/April Technology Review - Science as a Web Service XML can supercharge research. <...> XML is also one of the enabling technologies for grid computing and Web services, which Read More...
Sim Water at UC Berkeley using OLAP cubes
14 November 06 03:54 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
I really like to see this collaboration between the researchers at UC Berkeley and Catharine van Ingen from MSR's eScience group - they are using data mining and cubes to help with the scientific research. This is really neat stuff... SIM WATER Environmental Read More...
Data Mining for the rest of us...
07 November 06 11:58 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
If you've ever been interested in using datamining tools - but don't have the time to figure out how it all works...take a look at these add-ins for the Excel2007. With the data in a spreadsheet - you can kick off an analysis. I can see this a great way Read More...

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