From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-20T13:01:39+09:00
Subject: Re: statistical software and data transformation?

John Mettraux wrote:
> On 9/20/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>> Mind you, I've been doing this with minor alterations in the tools for
>> something like 15 years, so I haven't really dug into the way other
>> folks do it. But there are starting to be projects, both open source and
>> commercial, in the so-called ETL (Extract, Transfer, Load) arena, that
>> promise to revolutionize this type of work. One name that sticks in my
>> mind in open source is Pentaho, but I have not had a chance to check it
>> out. Most of the big ETL products are Java-based, IIRC.
> 
> On the Ruby front there may be ActiveWarehouse :
> 
>     http://activewarehouse.rubyforge.org/etl/
> 
> I haven't had a chance to play with it. It seems a bit Rails-focused.
> Level of activity is high.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
Yeah ... I've seen that too. Then again, when it comes to databases and
Ruby, what *isn't* Rails-focused?

Well ... Nitro ... Iowa ... etc. ... :) I'm playing with Og at the
moment, but not with big datasets.