02 July 2006

Archived older SCW stuff

These are various archived pieces from Scientific Computing World magazine )now published by Europa Science although some older items in the list may be from the time when it was published by the Institute of Physics), not available on the current web site. The table is in reverse chronological order (newest items first, in other words).

Date

Title link

Notes

Application type

2006-07 Recognising the future Pattern recognition as a pointer to a cyberfuture Pattern recognition; robotics
2006-05 Why is Lego the best toy in the world? More effective mathematical modelling – a brief historical survey and a look at SIMILE from Simulistics Modelling
2006-03 Free to view Could OriginLab's free viewer be a new standard for exchangeable rich technical graphics? Visualisation
2006-03 Planning for the unexpected Recent DoE software releases Design of Experiments
2006-01 A model miscellany Testing out some analytical software tools, as proposed by readers of the Scientific Computing World website Data analysis
2005-11 Writing up is no longer so very hard to do. Once the research has been done, the report has to be written. Organisation tools such as Onfolio make it a great deal easier, more organically intuitive, and more interesting. Workflow organisation

2005-08

'S' is for seaside, sea slug and statistics

Having text message conversations with a family of rocks, then analysing them with S-Plus 7·0

Data analysis

2005-06

Desperately seeking solutions

Improving the productivity of information searches.

Search - desktop

2005-06 Love at first sight Discovering the new calculator interface in Maple 10 Mathematics
2005-06 Easing the way to fuels paradise Using software in novel combinations to inform the energy futures debate. Mathematical and textual communication
2005-04 Kitu pya sikuzote njoo Afrika Providing scientific software for Africa is important to development, and also makes strategic sense for providers. New markets

2005-02

The science of the sound of the heart Visualising the sounds of heartbeat. Sonification
2005-02

Only connect...

Origin 7·5 and SigmaPlot 9·0 used to understand the effects of industrialisation on groundwater…

Data analysis and visualisation

2004-12

Avoid wind and welds for successful manufacturing

Statistical analysis with SigmaStat 3·1 and Statistica 7·0 located the sources of expensive faults in two very different manufacturing environments – hand made pottery and high precision milled steel.

Data analysis
2004-12 And furthermore... The value of add-in modules for stats packages, with particular attention to S-Plus, Genstat and Statistica Data analysis
2004-10 Yours, free to keep... There are both strengths and drawbacks to free software – this looks at some of the issues, with examples from the software available for statistics. Data analysis
2004-10 Count me in Maths for a wider public: making computational techniques available to nonmathematical users, through friendlier software. Mathematics
2004-10 Not the usual suspects A selection of products which had evaded SCW review Data analysis and visualisation
2004-08 Shoulder to shoulder Two different statistics packages (MiniTAB 14 and Systat 11) in use on one study of bacterial adhesion to contact lenses Data analysis and visualisation
2004-08 Beachcombing for data Essential scientific data access on the move. Database
2004-06 Palm Beach Handheld computation on the beach. Calculation
2004-06 Nonparametric statistics without tears Exact statistical measures used to be painful measures; not any more, thanks to StatXact 6. Data analysis
2004-04 Mining for answers from a mountain of text Identifying avenues for research from a mass of documentation. Text mining
2004-02 An education in add-ins Turning Excel into a useful statistical tool with StatTools Data Analysis
2004-02 An intelligent, intuitive bunch of wizards Biosoft's FigSys software is worth a look by anyone who needs general data analysis or visualisation – not just life science specialists. Visualisation
2004-06 The benefits of portfolio expansion Spin off products designed to push Wolfram into new markets. Mathematics
2003-08 Escape from the cell block DADiSP - the alternative to spreadsheets Data analysis
2003-10 Gimme five... Initial review of Mathematica release 5.0 Mathematics
2003-12 Northern odyssey reveals the very best of both worlds Sifting old industrial information stores with S–Plus and Insightful Miner for keys to reviving a scientific manufacturing community. Data Mining
2002-10 Return of the swamp thing Software approaches to the location of a lost munitions factory. Data analysis and visualisation
2001-02 Useful additions Reviewing new versions of MathType (5.0) and MathCAD (2001i). Mathematical communication

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