Tag Archives: Database

The Future of Health Data

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Menagerie Press

Here is the poster that I presented at the New England Database Conference 2013, held over at MIT‘s Stata Center in Cambridge, MA. I’ve also excised the abstract for ease of reading (and so that Google will zero in on … Continue reading →

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The ‘Drunken Master’: A Prototype Case-Based Reasoning System

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Menagerie Press

This shows the system that I have been working on. It extracts the data from an API feed, parses it and cleans it, and then feeds it into Protege, at which point a case-based reasoning system is built around the … Continue reading →

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Data Mining with RapidMiner 5.1, GATE, and Weka 3.6.4

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Menagerie Press

Over the last 6 months, I have been working intensely with a host of data mining software. Some of it was good, some of it was lousy, and some of it I can only rate as excellent. You will need … Continue reading →

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Sample Code for Oracle 10g: DECODE, applied

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Menagerie Press

I was having fun with the DECODE command while playing around with Oracle 10g. For the note, the description of DECODE on Oracle’s website is more than a little bit like mud. I guess there is no easy way to … Continue reading →

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Perspectives on Oracle 10g Express

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Menagerie Press

I have been working with Oracle 10g (and mySQL 5.1/5.5), and have come to some interesting conclusions regarding the Oracle SQL, as well as PHP. Oracle’s SQL language has its own variant – SQL*Plus. While I won’t get into the … Continue reading →

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Want to Know What Really Makes Us Human? Better Know Your SQL

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Menagerie Press

Article first published as Want to Know What Really Makes Us Human? Better Know Your SQL on Technorati. Genetic research is hot stuff. From homo sapiens to drosophila melanogaster, everyone wants to know what life is really made of. All … Continue reading →

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