Newcomers, Please Introduce Yourselves

[Erin]

Newcomers,

We would like to hear from and interact with users of Antaeus.

Please announce your presence by telling us a little about yourself, how long you've been using Antaeus, and what sort of data you look at with it. We're especially interested in knowing your likes and dislikes.

Feel free to share any thoughts and ask any questions about Antaeus. We're here and we'll respond.

Hope to hear from you,

-----EAT

[dafreedomfita]

Hey hey,

just downloaded the thing look forward to figuring it out

thanks,
guys it look exciting,

S

[Erin]

Hey hey,

just downloaded the thing look forward to figuring it out

thanks,
guys it look exciting,

S

Welcome!

We hope you'll find Antaeus useful to your needs, and we look forward to hearing any thoughts and insights you might have.

All the best,

[c04spoon]

My name is Tom. I stumbled upon Antaeus while exploring vizualization of high dimensional data / data mining. This an emerging area of personal and professional interest, and I am thrilled to see efforts like this program. Thanks for the hard work.

[Erin]

My name is Tom. I stumbled upon Antaeus while exploring vizualization of high dimensional data / data mining. This an emerging area of personal and professional interest, and I am thrilled to see efforts like this program. Thanks for the hard work.

Hi Tom,

Glad to hear about your interest, and your excitement. Please feel free to offer any feedback or ask any questions as you explore Antaeus. We're especially interested in hearing about how its being used, and with what kinds of data.

All the best,

[Richard]

Newbe here ... WOW ... !!

Congratulations on a nice package. Well designed and organized.

Glad to see the Sunflower class of plot. I have been searching for a good representation of HEATMAPS , and it 'seems' that the Sunflower is a very good proxy ( Density plotting using concurrent, vertical, color intensity representations of intersections.

Do you have any plans of offering additional 'Functions and transforms' ? How about 'Z-SCORES' ( Standardized transforms ). This might quite possibly result in some rather new, interesting and insightful graphical representations (distributions) of data vectors and arrays, in that the scaling would be common and bound along BOTH axis.

Great piece of software ..

-- richard

[Ernie]

Congratulations on a nice package. Well designed and organized.

Glad to see the Sunflower class of plot. I have been searching for a good representation of HEATMAPS, and it 'seems' that the Sunflower is a very good proxy (Density plotting using concurrent, vertical, color intensity representations of intersections).

Do you have any plans of offering additional 'Functions and transforms'? How about 'Z-SCORES' ( Standardized transforms ). This might quite possibly result in some rather new, interesting and insightful graphical representations (distributions) of data vectors and arrays, in that the scaling would be common and bound along BOTH axes.

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your positive comments. Our next release (3.1) comes out on Jan 15. It will include a facility for creating new (transformed) measures from any existing measure in the Functions SV. Besides the Z-transformation (Z-Score), are there other transformations that you see as useful?

---Ernie

[dazza111]

Hi my name is Damian I am fairly new to statistical interpretation of data and would like to know 3 good books (and any papers) that would assist me in gaining knowledge and perspective on being able to utilise this program to its maximum value.
with thanks
Damian

[Richard]

Welcome Damian !

Allow your self some time to become familiar with Antaeus, and you will be very pleasantly surprised ( and IMPRESSED ) with the capabilities and functionality this analysis software package has. The GUI interface is a bit different from the more traditional Windows interface, but once you get used to it, your use of this analysis tool becomes quite fun and productive.

'E and E' (Erin and Ernie) probably have a long list of publications and background resources to help you along. Remember also , the best resource for digging into Antaeus is a forum post to 'E and E' . . .


-- richard

[Ernie]

... I am fairly new to statistical interpretation of data and would like to know 3 good books (and any papers) that would assist me in gaining knowledge and perspective on being able to utilise this program to its maximum value. ...

Hi Damian,

Welcome to the forum.

Antaeus is only peripherally concerned with statistics, but its functionality is very much complementary to statistical analysis. Based on my own experience (in mathematics, not statistics) I can recommend three books that I believe provide excellent self-teaching guides for statistics.

Principles of Statistics by L. G. Bulmer, 1967, 252 pages--available as an inexpensive Dover reprint through Amazon (see link)--is a very clearly written undergraduate-level text book that requires a knowledge of 1st-year calculus.

Statistics, Forth Edition by Freedman, Pisani and Purves, W. W. Norton, 2007, 720 pages, is the classic, simple-algebra-only, introduction to statistics, featuring extremely detailed examples and analyses. There is no other book like it!

Statistical Analysis by Sam Kachigan, Radius Press, 1986, 585 pages, is a comprehensive introductory overview of all the univariate and multivariate methods, and it uses only basic algebra. It is a great reference that can be dipped into at any time.

These books can give you knowledge and perspective of statistics that may help in utilizing Antaeus, but only in the complementary sense, as mentioned above. Nothing written (to best of my knowledge) can tell you how to utilize this program to its maximum value because (again, to the best of my knowledge) nothing like Antaeus has existed before now. This situation will hopefully be improved on March 15 when release 3.2 becomes available, as this release will include an article describing (actually for the first time) what Antaeus really is.

Thanks so much for your interest, Damien. I hope you will become one of the pioneer users of Antaeus.

---Ernie

[Ernie]

Welcome Damian !

Allow your self some time to become familiar with Antaeus, and you will be very pleasantly surprised ...

Hi Richard,

Thank you so much for welcoming Damian to the forum and for your positive comments. This was an unexpected pleasure!

The 3.2 release is falling together handsomely. Erin and I are looking forward to March 15. We are hoping that Antaeus will no longer look so much like “work in progress”. Two deep improvements, with important implications for the future, are the direct result of the machinery we implemented in response to your particular needs concerning the sunflower plot. The first is the ability to store an index subset in the cube itself rather than as a separate file. The second is the extraction of any subset of the cube into a data table, which transforms Antaeus into a closed system.

These new capabilities have crystallized my own understanding of where I want to take Antaeus and how I think it should be used. I am now writing an article, long planned for, that will explain the purpose of Antaeus in its entirety. This article will be part of the next release, and I hope you will find it illuminating.

---Ernie

[Richard]

Looking forward to both the article and the next very impressive release.

-- richard