Iris Insight Discovery Platform Offers New Approach
February 6, 2013
Is this another data-analysis revolution or just more fancy graphics? Wired reports, “Data-Visualization Firm’s New Software Autonomously Finds Abstract Connections.” Ayasdi asserts that their Iris Insight Discovery platform helps you find answers in your data to questions you didn’t even know to ask.
If you check out the article, start with the embedded video; it does a good job of explaining the product. Writer Liat Clark explains:
“It’s a type of machine learning that uses hundreds of algorithms and topological data analysis to mine huge datasets before presenting the results in a visually accessible way. Using algebraic topology, the system automatically hunts down data points close in nature and maps these out to reveal a network of patterns for a researcher to decipher — any closely related nodes of information will be connected and clustered together, like how a social network arranges its data according to relationship connections.”
By removing the requirement for human-generated queries, the software is unfettered to offer up any patterns and anomalies it detects. Chances are, at least some of those will turn out to be important. The platform is apparently already producing exciting results in the medicine, and DARPA has optimistically bankrolled much of the development, hoping its use of the platform will bolster our national security. Now, a new round of funding is launching the product into the public realm.
When Ayasdi was formed in 2008, it was built on a decade of research at Stanford, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), and the National Science Foundation. The company is now located in Palo Alto, California. Their unique name is Cherokee for “to seek.”
Cynthia Murrell, February 06, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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