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Foundational Methodology for Data Science

In the domain of data science, solving problems and answering questions through data analysis is standard practice. Often, data scientists construct a model to predict outcomes or discover underlying patterns, with the goal of gaining insights. Organizations can then use these insights to take actions that ideally improve future outcomes.

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Insightful Corporation

Insightful Corporation is a developer and supplier of software and services that utilize a range of statistics and data mining techniques to analyze historical data, enabling the customers to understand relationships and gain intelligence from that data. The two segments of the Company are Domestic and International. The Domestic segment includes the operations of the United States and Canada, and the International segment includes the operations of all other countries and regions. The products of the Company are S-PLUS and S-PLUS Enterprise Server, Insightful Miner and various S-PLUS solutions and toolkits for vertical market categories, such as Insightful Clinical Graphics and S+ArrayAnalyzer for the life sciences sector and S+FinMetrics for the financial services sector. In September 2008, TIBCO Software Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Insightful Corporation.

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Foundational Methodology for Data Science