BEST Viewpoints 7

Data Analysis Made Simple

BEST Viewpoints is a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly data analysis software that combines data manipulation and analysis capabilities found in spreadsheets and database languages. Spreadsheet enthusiasts will find BEST Viewpoints a great complement to their everyday data mining activities. BEST Viewpoints simplifies the creation, and expands the scope, of pivot table analysis, performing analyses like statistical control charts, box plots, basic text mining, and market basket analysis. Additionally, users are empowered by the full library of Mathematica functions to symbolically represent and perform spreadsheet-like calculations in large datasets of numeric or string-data types. Finally, to enable portability, hundreds of data formats are available for importing data and exporting results.

Key Characteristics

• No programming skills required
• No software limits on dataset size
• Highly intuitive user interface
• Powerful number cruncher
• Performs grouped data analysis and charts on any number of categories
• Analyzes datasets of numbers, strings, graphics, and symbols
• Imports and merges different data sources and formats into one dataset
• Exports output to csv, xls, gif, metafile, PDF, and many other formats
• Sends numeric or graphical output results by email
• Provides in-plot modification GUIs for faster and simpler data analysis

The software is designed for data importing, manipulation, and analysis by means of:

• A data importing interface for uploading data or merging datasets from many data sources (databases, Microsoft Excel, text files, etc.). When importing from databases, the user can create and continuously update a selectable and editable list of SQL commands. When importing from Excel, users can preview any of the spreadsheets in the workbook and define the desired region of interest to be imported. Importing cross-tab data is also possible.
• A spreadsheet-like interface for data transformation, visualization, and manipulation (calculate new fields, summarize data, query data, sort, etc.). Defined procedures, including sort, queries, and symbolically defined equations, can be saved as analysis templates for future use in different datasets.
• Several analytics applications (hierarchical viewpoints, exploratory viewpoints, and relational viewpoints) that calculate and plot data summaries as defined by levels of the selected categorical variables. Data summaries can be represented as cross tabs of any of the following formats: bar charts, pie charts, Pareto plots, box plots, confidence intervals, and Line Plots. Other analyses include histograms, scatter plots, statistical control charts, hypothesis tests, and more. The software also contains a module specialized in determining and plotting associations found in one or more analysis variables (market basket analysis).

Testimonials

"BEST Viewpoints is the most robust data visualization and analysis product I have ever seen."

"BEST Viewpoints has been very useful for my daily data analysis work. It has helped me use my time more efficiently when working with complex datasets from different sources. The software definitely has the capability of creating different kinds of analysis and reports."

About the Developer

Ariel Sepúlveda 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 assisting other companies with their data analysis needs. Pronto Analytics created BEST Viewpoints to provide customers with data analysis software that is powerful and flexible enough to solve the most challenging analytic needs found in real life situations. Sepúlveda has also created several other applications for similar purposes to solve clients' data collection and analysis needs.

Product Support

BEST Viewpoints is developed and supported by Pronto Analytics Inc.

Pronto Analytics Inc.
Ariel Sepúlveda, PhD
President, Pronto Analytics Inc.
+1-787-352-6947
email: ariel.sepulveda@prontoanalytics.com

BEST Viewpoints 7 requires Mathematica 7 or Mathematica Player Pro 7 and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.