BEST Viewpoints
Data Analysis Made Simple
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BEST Viewpoints is a powerful and easy-to-use data analysis
application. Its graphical user interface enables users to create
high-quality results in minutes by providing quick access to many Mathematica functions for data manipulation, analysis, and visualization.
Key Characteristics
- No programming skills are needed to use it because it is GUI based.
- Performs hierarchical analysis at any nesting or grouping level of categorical fields.
- No limits on dataset size, and data can be trimmed to exclude
outliers.
- Analysis can be performed on numeric, text, or symbolic data
columns.
- Data can be imported from databases, spreadsheets, or delimited text files.
- Tabular output can be exported to spreadsheet formats and delimited files, and graphics to standard formats like GIF and JPG.
Key Features
- A data-importing interface for uploading data or
merging datasets from many data sources, like databases, Excel, text
files, etc. When importing from databases, the user can create and
continuously update a selectable and editable list of SQL commands. This section also provides a quick assessment of the data columns imported (data types, summary statistics, common values, etc.).
- An interface for data transformation and
manipulation, which in some situations may be needed to transform
data columns (e.g. string to number), calculate new columns (e.g. c3 = Log[c1]+c2), calculate data summaries, create queries (e.g. exclude non-numeric entries from one column), or sort data. Defined procedures and equations can be saved as Analysis Templates for future use in different datasets.
- A section dedicated to calculate and plot data
summaries (Total, Count, Average, Max, etc.), as defined by
levels of the selected categorical variables. Data summaries can be
represented as Bar Charts, Pareto Analysis, Box-and-Whisker Charts,
Confidence Intervals, and Line Plots.
- A section dedicated to exploring data using analysis
methods and plots like:
- The calculation of location, dispersion, and shape Summary Statistics (e.g. Mean, Standard Deviation, Skewness)
- Plotting Lines, Scatter Plots, Bubble Charts, and 3D Plots
- Assessing data distribution using Histograms (including
distribution plots like PDF, CDF, and Survival), Box-and-Whisker Plots,
Distribution Charts, Probability, Quantile, and Probability Scale Plots
- Performing Hypothesis Tests (Location, Location Equivalence,
Variance, Variance Equivalence), Goodness-of-Fit Tests (for continuous or
discrete populations)
- Assessing process stability using Process Capability Analysis and Statistical Control Charts (XBar, R, EWMA, C, p, Np)
- Creating data models: define model, calculate model parameter
statistics, ANOVA table, goodness-of-fit tests, and residual plots
- A section dedicated to Association Analysis and Retail
Analytics, where associations among variables can be easily
discovered and graphically represented to simplify their interpretations.
When a dataset of retail transactions is being analyzed, this section can
also calculate retail statistics like product penetration and sole
purchase count, and evaluate how these statistics change over time.
Market Basket Analysis tools can also be used to identify the product
affinities that portray customer preferences. The information that this section can generate from data is usually hard or impossible to get from other data analysis applications.
About the Developer
Ariel SepĂșlveda has a BSIE and ME in industrial engineering from the
University of Puerto Rico and a PhD in operations research from Virginia
Tech. Currently, Ariel is the president and founder of Pronto Analytics Inc., an organization dedicated to creating data analysis solutions mainly using Wolfram technology. He has created data analysis solutions for companies in several countries around the world.
Product Support
BEST Viewpoints is developed and supported by Pronto Analytics Inc.
Pronto Analytics Inc.
Ariel Sepúlveda, PhD
President, Pronto Analytics Inc.
+1-787-354-6947
ariel.sepulveda@prontoanalytics.com
Compatibility
BEST Viewpoints 10 requires Mathematica 10, CDF Player 10, or
CDF Player Pro 10, and is available for Windows or Mac OS X.
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