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Another EigenU Complete!
May 26, 2009
The fourth edition of Eigenvector University came to a close last Friday, May 22. The week-long EigenU 2009 had 25 participants from a wide variety of industries and universities. This was somewhat smaller than 2008, but still a good showing given the current state of the economy. Of course, we think it’s the really smart […]
Congratulations Romà!
Apr 17, 2009
This year’s Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Achievements in Chemometrics goes to Romà Tauler. Romà is a Research Professor at CSIC, the Institute of Chemical and Environmental Research in Barcelona, Spain. Romà continues to be a pioneer in Multivariate Curve Resolution, the collection of techniques used for decomposing spectral data into its physically meaningful underlying […]
EigenU Registration Open
Apr 9, 2009
The fourth edition of Eigenvector University will be held in Seattle May 17-22. We’re excited about this edition in part because we have four new courses: Robust Methods, Correlation Spectroscopy, Common Mistakes in Chemometrics (and how not to make them), and Implementing Chemometrics in PAT. But we’re also excited because EigenU is about the only […]
PLS_Toolbox and Solo 5.2 Released
Apr 8, 2009
PLS_Toolbox and Solo 5.2 were released on April 7, 2009. This is the first major update to version 5.0. There’s a little too much new stuff in it to call it 5.1 (see the complete list), so we’re calling it 5.2. At first glance you won’t actually notice many of the improvements; most of them […]
Eigenvector welcomes Sharon Deram
Nov 11, 2008
Eigenvector Research is pleased to announce that Sharon Deram of SBI Analytical is our new Midwest US Sales Representative. Sharon’s territory includes Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. SBI Analytical is a manufacuterers’ representative organization specializing in laboratory instrumentation and process analyzers. The company is based near Chicago, IL. President Sharon Deram […]
Rome Wrap-up
Oct 30, 2008
Thanks to everybody who came to our “Basic Chemometrics” course this week in Rome! We had 20 students from 10 countries, and it was a really good mix. A special thanks to our hosts, including Giovanni Visco, Maria Pia Sammartino, Federico Marini and the staff at CASPUR. The facility was excellent, and the meals were […]
EigenGuys at FACSS in Reno
Oct 20, 2008
This was the first year in a long time that I didn’t make it to FACSS, but that doesn’t mean that Eigenvector wasn’t there. The EigenGuys attending included Neal Gallagher, Jeremy Shaver, Chuck Miller and Scott Koch. As usual, EVRI taught some courses: Neal took the lead on our popular Chemometrics without Equations, and introduced […]
Properties of PLS
Sep 28, 2008
As part of my sabbatical here at the Automatic Control Laboratory at EPFL, I was asked to give a seminar. I wanted to talk about some of the work I’d done lately concerning properties of PLS, and differences between PLS algorithms, pretty much the same material I’d presented as a poster at CAC-2008 in Montpellier. […]
Eigenvector Company Profile
Aug 25, 2008
“Who are those guys?” * If anybody asks you that about us, we’ve got an answer for them in 16 slides: The Eigenvector Company Profile. It’s a short profile of EVRI, including some information about our company history, software products, personnel, short courses and consulting services. “Hey, Butch?” “What?” “They’re very good.” BMW * With […]
Definition of Academic
Aug 25, 2008
Eigenvector offers academic discounts on our software and short courses, such as our upcoming Basic Chemometrics in Rome. Everyone, of course, likes a discount, so we get a lot of questions regarding how to qualify as an academic. If you do a Google search on “definition academic” you’ll come up with quite a few choices. […]
Chuck Miller to Chair Next IDRC “Chambersburg” Meeting
Aug 11, 2008
I’m pleased to announce that Eigenvector’s Dr. Charles E. “Chuck” Miller has been elected chair of the 2010 International Diffuse Reflectance Conference, aka the “Chambersburg” Meeting. IDRC has been held every other year since 1982 and is one of the premier conferences on NIR spectroscopy and related fields. It is organized by the Council for […]
Update on Chemometrics in Rome
Aug 6, 2008
Details are now available for our Basic Chemometrics in Rome, Italy, short course. Rasmus Bro will be joining me for this 3 day, hands-on course October 27-29, 2008. The course page includes additional information about Rome, the course content, registration, prices, and nearby lodging. If there is anything you can’t find, please let me know! […]
Software as Automobile
Jul 22, 2008
If your chemometrics software package were an automobile, what would it look like? Sorry, couldn’t resist! 🙂 BMW
Chemometrics Short Course in Rome, October 27-29, 2008
Jul 16, 2008
Some time ago I asked Rasmus Bro if he would be interested in teaching a short course with me in Europe this fall. He said, “Yes, and I really want to go to Rome!” Fortunately, I’d been in contact lately with Dr. Giovanni Visco of Rome University Chemistry Department regarding the CMA4CH meeting. Dr. Visco […]
Sabbatical at EPFL
Jul 16, 2008
In September of 2007 I received an offer I couldn’t refuse. When Professor Dominique Bonvin of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) wrote and asked if there was a chance to have me spend some time there in 2008, it didn’t take long for me to send back a positive response. Besides the fact that […]
IUPAC Glossary of Chemometric Terms and Concepts
Jul 16, 2008
Nomenclature has been a subject of some discussion within the chemometrics community, such as on the list ICS-L. I recall exchanges dealing with the definition of various terms such as “factor,” “latent variable,” and “principal component.” Its clear that we don’t all use these terms in exactly the same way. For the most part, this […]
CAC-2008 Poster Prize Winners
Jul 4, 2008
Eigenvector was pleased to sponsor the “Best Poster” prize at CAC-2008. The top three poster presenters all received a certificate good for a copy of PLS_Toolbox or Solo (well, OK, it wasn’t exactly a certificate, it was one of my business cards with “Good for one PLS_Toolbox” written on the back!). The top poster also […]
More from CAC-2008
Jul 4, 2008
Its been a long week, absolutely packed. I haven’t gotten to every session, but I thought I’d include a few notes about several more talks I really enjoyed. Selena Richards presented “Self-Modeling Curve Resolution: a new approach to recovering temporal metabolite signal modulation in NMR spectroscopic data: Application to a life-long caloric restriction in dogs.” […]
Update from CAC-2008
Jul 3, 2008
Greetings from Montpellier, where Jeremy and I are attending CAC-2008. We’re now into our third day of the conference, and it has gotten off to a good start. I thought I’d just take a minute and highlight several talks that I really enjoyed. Brynn Hibbert presented “Analysis of variance of complex data sets using GEMANOVA: […]
NIPALS versus Lanczos Bidiagonalization
Jun 24, 2008
In 2007, Randy Pell, Scott Ramos and Rolf Manne (PRM) ignited a controversy when they published “The model space in PLS regression.” Their paper pointed out that the X-block residuals in different PLS packages were not the same. Specifically, packages which use the NIPALS or SIMPLS method for PLS (including PLS_Toolbox/Solo, Unscrambler and SIMCA-P) produce […]