In the “Will They Blend?” blog series, we experiment with the most interesting blends of data and tools. Whether it’s mixing traditional sources with modern data lakes, open-source DevOps on the cloud with protected internal legacy tools, SQL with NoSQL, web-wisdom-of-the-crowd with in-house handwritten notes, or IoT sensor data with idle chatting, we’re curious to […]
Motifs and Mutations: The Logic of Sequence Logos
Click to learn more about author Franziska Rau. Examining Motifs Using Multiple Sequence Alignment with the SeqAn Community Extension Decoding this sequence of different species uncovered that humans and chimpanzees share perfect identity with 96 percent of their DNA sequence. Why do we look so different then? Little differences with huge effects can appear in […]
Will They Blend? Meeting the Semantic Web
Click to learn more about author Martyna Pawletta. Let’s see if we can serve pizza via the Semantic Web and an analytics platform. Will they blend? Ontologies study concepts that directly relate to “being,” i.e., concepts that relate to existence and reality as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. In information science, […]
Analyzing Gene Expression Data
Click to learn more about author Jeany Prinz. Express Yourself! All individuals are unique, and so are our data needs. From simple CSV files to REST APIs to Google’s BigQuery or using customized shared components, Data Science Analytics Platforms offer many ways to access and analyze your data. Today, we will demonstrate how to access […]
Predicting the Purpose of a Drug with Information Extraction
Click to learn more about author Julian Bunzel. Keeping track of the latest developments in research is becoming increasingly difficult with all the information published on the Internet. This is why Information Extraction (IE) tasks are gaining popularity in many different domains. Reading literature and retrieving information is extremely exhausting, so why not automate it? At least […]
From A for Analytics to Z for Zika Virus
Click to learn more about author Jeany Prinz. One of the great advantages of Data Science Analytics Platforms is their ability to analyze diverse types of data. Today, we want to move to the outer edge of the alphabet and look into data from the Zika virus. Our analysis is inspired by the Microreact project “Zika […]
Signals Analytics Powers Informa Pharma Intelligence’s Offerings
According to a new press release, “Informa Pharma Intelligence, the global business intelligence provider for the biopharma industry, and Signals Analytics, the next generation advanced analytics platform that leverages external data to uncover trends and novel insights, today announced a joint offering that helps life sciences companies to identify new opportunities, mitigate investment risks and […]
Self-Service Analytics Use Cases
Self-service analytics offers dynamic reports to business users, who can analyze the data by sophisticated, in-built functions. This kind of user empowerment reduces reliance on IT staff. Moreover, self-service business intelligence (BI) capability may additionally equip users with external data access and built-in features to instantly generate finished reports. To use a complete range of […]
Regularization for Logistic Regression: L1, L2, Gauss or Laplace?
Click to learn more about author Kathrin Melcher. Regularization can be used to avoid overfitting. But what actually is regularization, what are the common techniques, and how do they differ? Well, according to Ian Goodfellow [1]: “Regularization is any modification we make to a learning algorithm that is intended to reduce its generalization error but […]
Crossix Continues to Expand Health Data Network
According to a recent press release, “Crossix announced today it has added several new data partners and sources as the company continues to expand its network of connected health data. Additional Rx and medical claims data will allow an even more complete picture of the patient journey, including for specialty prescription products. The Crossix analytics […]