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What Works and What Doesn’t
Jun 28, 2009
After SSC11 I got a note from my colleague Paman Gujral at the Automatic Control Laboratory at EPFL summarizing some of the talks. He wrote: “Rasmus Bro gave an excellent talk too about the pitfalls in using chemometric methods. Kowalski commented that software firms are a lot to blame for advocating methods that don’t work.” […]
Referencing Software – Summary
Jun 27, 2009
The post I wrote on June 11, Referencing Software, resulted in a rather lengthy thread on ICS-L, the Chemometrics discussion list. Most discussants generally agreed that the software used to develop results for scientific papers should be referenced, including the software title, publisher, year and version number. There were a few dissenters. Sergey Kucheryavski wrote: […]
Eigenvector President Goes to Jail
Jun 25, 2009
But it was for a good cause. I recently participated in the March of Dimes “Jail and Bail” fundraiser. The MoD got it’s start raising money for polio research in 1938. The other name for polio is “infantile paralysis,” as it typically attacked children and young adults. MoD defeated polio in the 1950’s, and has […]
Software Engineer Sought
Jun 19, 2009
The current recession hasn’t slowed things down here at Eigenvector. In fact, we’re looking for another Software Engineer to help us speed up evolution of our current products and develop custom solutions for our consulting clients. Please find below an ad for the position. BMW Software Engineer sought for leading role in scientific software development. […]
Referencing Software
Jun 11, 2009
Yesterday I picked up a newly-arrived journal and noted that the article highlighted on the front page looked quite interesting as we have been doing some related work. I eagerly turned to the article and found that the author had been using PLS-DA (Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis) and was, in fact, one of our […]
Use of Unlabeled Data in Regression Modeling
Jun 7, 2009
In 1995 Edward V. Thomas published “Incorporating Auxiliary Predictor Variation in Principal Components Regression” in J. Chemometrics, (vol. 9, no. 6, pps 471-481). Thomas demonstrated how additional samples, without matching references values, can be used when building a PCR model. These samples, commonly called “unlabeled data,” help stabilize the estimates of the principal components. So […]
EAS Chemometrics Award Session for Romà Tauler
Jun 4, 2009
As announced in a previous post, Romà Tauler was selected as this year’s recipient of the EAS Award for Achievements in Chemometrics. Romà asked me to organize the award session, and I have happily obliged. The session will be on Tuesday afternoon, November 17. The theme of the session is “Uncertainties, Ambiguities, and Chemometrics.” Talks […]
EigenU Redux: Chemometrics in Wenatchee, July 13-16
Jun 4, 2009
We had a number of people that just couldn’t make it to EigenU last month and wanted a Chemometrics course this summer. So we’re planning on doing a course here in Wenatchee, WA, July 13-16, 2009. We’re doing our “Basic Chemometrics” course on Monday-Wednesday, including: Linear Algebra for Chemometricians MATLAB for Chemometricians Chemometrics I: Principal […]