tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50787070580036878202011-07-08T05:15:24.515-04:00News and information from inside QbaseQbaseTechTeamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084699243213102961noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078707058003687820.post-60316712218486933552010-10-20T10:22:00.002-04:002010-10-20T10:31:26.802-04:00

Qbase provides a wide range of analytical services. In today's post, we'll take a look at one of the standards of analytics: predictive analytics. Predictive analytics fall into two main categories: statistical and data mining. Now, statistical approaches emerged from statistical theory, as opposed to data mining, which emerged from computational theory. Both statistical analytics and data mining

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The Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association, or GDAHA, is working with Qbase to aggregate its members’ trauma data online for uncomplicated and immediate analysis. The system is securely hosted on the web for access from anywhere and is password protected and roles-based. The accompanying image (left; click to see a larger version) provides an example of analytics capabilities Qbase built for

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For most companies, this isn't news, but having a thorough backup and recovery plan is a necessary component to include in your overall business continuity plan. Why? Well, disasters are never scheduled, but they are always unpredictable and, for the most part, inevitable. And there are many causes for data loss, but the most common are hardware failures, natural disasters, human disasters,

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Viruses and spyware can bring your laptop to a grinding halt. Think that’s the extent of it? Think again. Most spyware is designed to record your surfing habits by sampling files and history on your machine and then sending the results to a remote location for analysis. Some virus infections can corrupt and destruct your data. Another breed of viruses steals your data and spies on your daily

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At Qbase, our primary areas of focus are in data improvement and IT support. However, our secondary areas of focus are just as important: data analysis and software tools development. Important areas where Qbase has contributed significant insight through both the development of purpose-built software and data analysis are in healthcare and human performance studies. For example, to help

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For those of you working with HTC — or High Throughput Computing — we thought we'd share a bit about how we do things at Qbase in the HTC arena. First of all, you might be asking, what is High Throughput Computing or, at least, how is it used in relation to processing data? Well, at Qbase, we've designed our HTC system as a solution to increase the processing of large data sets by leveraging

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In today's world, where terrorism and natural disasters are an all-too-common reality, situational awareness has become, both locally and nationally, of paramount importance. So, for the past few years Qbase has been developing a number of technologies that together form an advanced GIS-based, sensor fusion environment known as TouchStone®, purpose-built for proactive situational awareness. This

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It's one of the truths about data that data can't take care of itself — especially when some or all of it has been collected in legacy environments and/or with little or no control over how it was collected. Taking care of your data, what's known as data conditioning, is valuable regardless of whether you're planning system modernization, data migration, or any other large, data-related project.

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One of the primary areas of focus here at Qbase is data, specifically on what is known as "data hygiene" — literally turning dirty data into clean data. When we receive data from clients requesting data hygiene either as a standalone process or as just one step in a larger project (such as a data migration or integration project), the first thing we always do is examine the data (typically this

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Walk into your local coffee shop or favorite lunch place and you’ll see laptops and "netbooks" at practically every table. Welcome to the wireless world! A world, unfortunately, that is fraught with danger, where corporate and personal information can be stolen right out from under your keyboard. The reason? Most wireless "hotspots" use weak or no encryption/security. While this makes it easy for

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As a data company, Qbase is not focused exclusively on collecting, merging, cleansing, and migrating data. We are also keen on preserving data. A key component of data preservation is having a workable recovery plan. However, once you have a plan is in place, don't do what a lot of businesses do: relax and let the backup solution run “on its own.” (There they sit, falsely confident that all

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The Qbase Information Platform™, or QIP™, is a hosted data repository two years in conjunction with our partners at GDAHA, the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association. QIP™ allows Ohio’s largest hospital association and its 20+ healthcare organizations to aggregate, condition, and view critical emergency room operations data up to 95% faster than before this technology was developed and deployed

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Today's post is all about data transformation, and how Qbase does it differently. Sure, there are a whole lot of commercial transformation engines out there, but what makes Qbase better? Well, it really comes down to the technological advancements we have developed for our transformation engine: Qbase Data Transformer™. These advancements are in the following areas: in our "non-blocking" data

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We're often asked, as a small business, if we have the ability to handle massive amounts of records. Specifically, what is our background and track record in this area? Well, in terms of just scale, Qbase personnel have tackled some of the largest search challenges out there, including a system comprised of over 10,000 distinct sources of structured data collections with over 8 billion records.

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If you are in the search or data business, or collect this data for yourself, you know firsthand about the search and data challenges found in diverse data sets from military, healthcare, law enforcement, research, insurance, and financial domains, to name just a few. But data from each of these different domains present a unique set of challenges because, although they may share some

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When we start data projects for clients, we use only our Qbase organic tools. That way, we don't need to rely on licensing or installing third-party software, or bringing anyone up to speed on external technologies — we just get to work and get results. We start by using our data discovery tool, Qbase Data Discovery™ (QDD™). QDD™ identifies the type of data in a field automatically, based on

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In our last post, we were discussing how Qbase is able to handle data fusion in realtime. The secret is in how we use RAM (Random Access Memory). The indexes we create are highly compressed, but contain all required key fields. The in-memory indexes can then be distributed across a huge number of large memory servers. Scoring algorithms are all absolute, based on a ‘0-to-1’ continuum of values

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We've had some questions recently on what the Qbase approach is to fusing disparate data sets together. Well, unlike some of our competitors, at Qbase our unique approach to data fusion is based completely on runtime matching and linking, which means there is no need for linking of any data in advance. What our technicians have done instead is index the data based on “loose keys.” The resulting

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