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SEATTLE — To Laura King, her three children were acting normal while enjoying dinner at an Italian restaurant in their hometown in Washington state.
But staffers of the restaurant Sogno di Vino in Poulsbo were so impressed with her children's table manners during their Feb. 1 dinner that they thanked her kids and gave the family of five a bowl of ice cream.
It wasn't until King got home that that she noticed a $4 "well behaved kids" discount on her receipt to cover the dessert. A friend posted a picture of the receipt on the website Reddit, and the story took off.
"The server said staff didn't even know there were kids at the table," said King, whose children are 2, 3, and 8 years old.
King said it's been entertaining to see all the attention her story has gotten, and she plans to dine at Sogno di Vino again soon.
Sogno di Vino owner Rob Scott said servers have the discretion to offer a discount to customers, adding that this wasn't the first time well-behaved kids have been rewarded. What was different this time was that one of the staffers wrote it out in the receipt.
"It was just an act of kindness," Scott said.
Scott said the restaurant was packed the night Laura's family came in, which can be challenging to families with small children. But he said he was impressed with the way the family was interacting with each other and that even the 2-year-old on a high chair seemed to be having a good time.
Rowdy children are an issue all restaurant customers have encountered at one point or another, Scott said.
"You can tell when a (family) had a rough ride to the restaurant," Scott said. "There tends to be sometimes activities where children get out of the chair or stand on chairs or get loud, as they get loud, it upsets other patrons, and they paid for a baby sitter."
Scott said he's been asked if he would charge more to customers who have unruly children. That's not something he does, he said.
"Everybody in my generation was raised to behave in restaurants," he said. "That parenting skills have been forgotten in some cases."
King said she has worked in the restaurant industry before and knows that families aren't the easiest customers to serve. She said that at the restaurant, her kids apply the table etiquette used at her dining table.
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For a relaxing holiday centred around the beach, the Dolunay Apartments are tough to beat. The sands are just across the road, plus you're within walking distance of Altinkum. There's a pool, bar and patisserie on-site, too.
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The apartments themselves are in two-storey buildings set in landscaped gardens. They come with basics like cooking rings and a fridge, and linen's supplied, too. Some apartments even have sea-view balconies.
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On the subject of food, the hotel lays on a free bus to the Dolunay restaurant. It's in Altinkum, and as a guest at the apartments you'll get a discount. As for after-dinner entertainment, there's a nightclub across the road from the apartments and an open-air disco about a two-minute walk away.
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AlienWebguy put together a site for martial arts tricking called club540.com. It's got a lot of content. Most useful is an index of the names of tricks with videos.
Here you can check what these are: Masterswipe, Double Flash Kick, Full Swipeknife, … Even the QUADRUPLE FULL TWIST. Oh. Right. We know what that is.
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Breakfast has long been called the most important meal of the day, and the cliche is proving increasingly true for packaged food makers and restaurants looking to serve consumers' growing craving for morning meals that balance healthy, yummy and easy to eat on the go.
"Consumers have really absorbed the message for awhile now that starting your day with a bowl full of sugar is not the best way to sustain your energy and be your best," said Kara Nielsen, culinary director of Sterling Rice Group. "It's part and parcel with the anti-carb and pro-protein trends, and some of these nutritional themes we keep reading about in the news and hearing about on CNN."
Retail breakfast food sales grew during the recession and they're expected to hit $15.7 billion by 2017, a 26% increase from 2012, according to Mintel data. Still, many time-crunched consumers say they skip or skimp on the morning meal, according to a 2014 report from Clarkston Consulting, and breakfast food brands including Kellogg's, Kraft, Hillshire Brands and Hormel Foods have been working to create breakfast bars and other more convenient options. (read more…)
SmartBrief's food and beverage readers saw CPG companies making some big moves in the product arena in our news coverage this week, with Keurig informing consumers about the upcoming launch of its Keurig Kold machine and WhiteWave reporting a 27% growth in shares so far this year, driven by the company's yogurt, plant-based and Horizon Organic products. Cheerios is taking a big step into the gluten-free market with five gluten-free cereal varieties, and Slim Jim is looking to capture more male millennial consumers with its new Funny or Die ad campaign.
Food companies seemed to be focused on their growth strategies this week. Anthony Bourdain announced plans for a shipping warehouse full of food destinations from vendors, to stalls, to shops. Albertsons announced it could raise up to $1.84 billion in an initial public offering, while Kroger gathered 5,000 of its managers from across the company to talk about the retailer's future growth. (read more…)
Here is a question you've probably never heard from behind the bar: "Excuse me, bartender? Exactly how water-efficient IS that double IPA on tap?"
While I personally ask that two or three times each week, I realize it usually isn't a top concern for most beer enthusiasts — at least not yet.
Trends, they are a-changing
"Beer drinkers will always choose their beer based upon quality, taste, and local origin," said Cheri Chastain, sustainability manager at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. "We focus heavily upon these three topics but we want to add one more cutting-edge issue: environmental sustainability."
That said, Chastain is beginning to find sustainability is a brand differentiator and beer drinkers are taking notice.
"More and more, we are finding that customers are excited to learn sustainability is a core value for us, and they look for our brand on every beer menu," she said.
Restaurateurs should take note: beverage sales are an important part of business revenue, with full-service restaurants typically earning between $1,015 and $2,901 per seat, per year for beer and wine combined, according to the National Restaurant Association's Restaurant Operations Report 2013-2014 edition. (read more…)
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Packaged-goods companies should consider re-evaluating their distribution networks at least once a year, according to a webinar on challenges facing grocery logistics professionals.
The webinar, Delivering Results: Supply Chain Management Challenges and Opportunities in Today's Environment, was sponsored by Burris Logistics.
"Three out of four companies have done network redesign recently, so if you haven't, you need to have a very compelling reason as to why not," said Tim Near, senior advisor at the Boston Consulting Group.
Near cited data from the 2015 Logistics Benchmarking Study by BCG and the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which found that transportation challenges, driven in large part by an acute shortage of truck drivers, were the most commonly cited top-of-mind issue for supply chain leaders (83%). Those concerns were closely followed by network redesign, however, as 72% of supply chain leaders cited that as a significant priority at their companies, up from just 6% in 2012. (read more…)
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Wendy White had long been interested in the public health sector when she decided to pursue a career in food safety and quality.
As the director of corporate food safety and quality at Golden State Foods, she puts her expertise to work behind the scenes, helping to ensure that pathogens don't reach the consumer end of the food chain. A microbiology class White was taking as an undergraduate piqued her interest in food.
"I thought, here is a way that I can really make an impact in the public health sector, where it can be preventative, and I can help people before they get sick," she said. "The idea of that is really very intriguing to me."
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Have a flutter on the horses at Doncaster Racecourse, or make a mini-break of it during St Leger Festival race week. Spend a memorable musical evening at The Dome, or watch the footy at the Keepmoat Stadium. For a blast of fresh air, explore the beautiful South Yorkshire countryside. When you're ready to relax, our onsite restaurant, spacious rooms and super-comfy beds are waiting.
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MONTPELIER Michael Bernard Brooks, 67, formerly of Montpelier and most recently of Conroe, Texas, died May 2, 2013, in Lonoke, Ark.
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Report: Rajon Rondo open to working with Brad Stevens
When the surprise announcement came that the Boston Celtics had hired Brad Stevens to be their next heard coach, most were enthused by the hire. Even folks who are normally skeptical about college hires recognize that Stevens is spoken of glowingly by just about every human being who's had contact with him.
But the big question was, how would Rajon Rondo react to the hire?
Rondo had developed a close relationship with Doc Rivers that came with the same kind of frustrations any such relationship is going to have. They drove each other nuts sometimes, but they always had one another's back. Now that's gone, along with Rondo's "big brother" in Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. He's alone, facing a rebuilding situation, still under contract (and underpaid) and recovering from an ACL injury.
How will he react to the news a 36-year-old college coach is his new coach?
The Boston Globe reports that at the very least, Rondo is open to the situation:
"Well a source close to Rondo who has talked with the guard since the Stevens hiring said Rondo is looking at the move with a "completely open mind."
Rondo makes his offseason home in Louisville, Ky., and its uncertain when or if Stevens will meet or speak with Rondo before training camp. Stevens was introduced Friday morning at a news conference in Waltham, Mass., and fielded his share of Rondo questions.
"They both have a lot to prove," the source said of Stevens and Rondo. "Might as well do it together."
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Stevens did say he called Rondo this week. From our own Matt Norlander:
The one big question that hangs for Stevens and the Celtics related to all-star point guard Rajon Rondo. Theres uncertainty -- or public speculation -- as to whether Rondo will want to play in Boston long-term. Stevens addressed that situation on Friday.
"There is no bigger fan of Rajon Rondo than me," he said when asked how hed handle the enigmatic and talented Celtics guard whod reportedly been in past clashes with Rivers. Stevens added hed already talked to Rondo on the phone and has plans to meet with him soon.
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So the bridge has started to be built between the two. Rondo's got an "open mind" which is a long way away from "I'm totally excited and he and I are going to be best buds." But it's a start. Rondo is notoriously temperamental, often at times drawing the ire of Doc Rivers. But he's also a singular talent, and can still be the true core of the Celctics' rebuild. Whether he will be or not could be affected by his relationship with Danny Ainge's bold choice for his hand-picked next coach.


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Total Government Awareness, Software and Ethics
Several years ago I was working on a system for modelling and simulating social pressure. The idea was that actions have repercussions and that I could build dynamic ecosystems staffed with characters of differing social power. The pressure system would stimulate social interaction between criminals, the wealthy corporate elite, impoverished citizens and various authorities in a cyberpunk RPG setting.
I was discussing my ideas with a professor and friend of mine over lunch one day, when he posed a difficut question to me. "What do you think would happen if a totalitarian government got ahold of and modified your software, Norm?" We discussed it for some time, and I abandoned my ideas for the project because of its potential social repercussions.
My caution at the time was inspired by fear. After a few years have passed, I think the fear was justified.
Earlier this summer the Computing Culture Group at MIT's Media Lab announced a project titled "Open Government Information Awareness" project. It is an effort to turn the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) inspired "Total Information Awareness" project on its heels and point it back at the US government. In this information-inspired age the idea of a "Civilian Information Agency" which conducts espionage on its own government is a chapter right out a Neal Stephenson novel.
The Computing Culture Group is doing with technology something which, in my mind, definitely needs to be done. They're using it in an open manner to address social and ethical concerns in their community. This project has nothing to do with entertainment or the enterprise. It is "Not Economically Viable". It generates no wealth, per se. But well-being extends so far beyond wealth.
Especially when it comes to the well-being of a society, or a group of societies, for that matter. Some argue that a person's economic freedom will always lead them to greater liberty. That's a fine argument, supported by many scholars and successful people throughout the centuries. But economic freedom is a symptom of, not the reason for this liberty.
There's an underlying pattern here. The concentration of social power has an inverse relationship to liberty. What does that mean? It means that social power--the ability to effect social change--has a natural tendency to concentrate and grow at the expense of freedom. That assertion deserves its own expanded essay, but this is just a blog entry, so I'll get to the point.
Whether it concentrates as totalitarian authority in the hands of a government, as capital (social power) in the hands of private industry, as money in the control of a private monopolistic financier class or as societal dominance by institutions of religion, the effects are always the same. Poverty, disease and warfare.
Capital, money and authority (whether the authority be mentally or physically coercive) are all forms of social power--they enable people to effect social change. Social power works to the detriment of liberty when it is concentrated into the hands of a few people.
So, what does this have to do with Open Source software or the Total Government Awareness project?
Because knowledge is also social power. The dissemination of knowledge hinders the concentration of social power. It enables a larger number of people to effect change in their society. It helps them recognize patterns of deception and corruption in their governments, their businesses, their institutions of faith. Because knowledge is social power, it too tends to concentrate and aggregate.
Google News is a perfect example of this. So is the Total Government Awareness project. They have created "Cathedral" style software pinnacles which are vulnerable to corruption. Google has already assisted the Chinese government in filtering its search results to prevent Chinese citizens from reaching certain information resources on the internet.
The question or study of ethics is not usually well recieved in any field. Throughout the twentieth century people have reviled and mistrusted any use of the term ethics. It has taken on a coercive role and the suspicion of many free thinkers.
Geoffrey Galt Harpham in his essay "Ethics", writes a particulary chilling explanation of the return of ethics to the world of literary criticism; one which prompts one to reconsider the role of ethics in software:
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Jun 19, 2013
The threat of a hike in US interest rates
and subsequent EM selloff has meant a rest for
LatAm's busy debt capital markets. A heavy equity
pipeline has filled up for the June-July window, with issuers
eager to get out while they can. It is now clear not all will
make it.
The poor market conditions, along with an
aggressive valuation and poor news coming out of Brazil, have
derailed the ambitions of Votorantim Cimentos. The unit of the
Votorantim conglomerate had been targeting 8 billion
reais ($3.7 billion) in what might have been the
biggest IPO of the year in the region. The issuer still may
try again later in the year.
Other Brazilians remain in the pipeline,
but have yet to launch.
CPFL Energia, which pulled an IPO attempt last year, is the
largest, and is joined by airline
Azul. Follow-ons from Brazil or anywhere else in the region
still stand a reasonable chance of getting done, bankers say,
especially if issuers are flexible on the pricing.
Via Varejo,
MPX and
Klabin are targeting fresh funds.
In Mexico, a follow-on from
OHL Mexico will give the market its first idea of the
viability of follow-ons from large well-established names. The
road operator is targeting 8 billion pesos ($621 million). A $3
billion deal from
Banorte awaits in July, and developer
Vesta is also planning on raising additional funds.
Next week, Inbursa and airport operator
OMA are scheduled to have all-secondary share deals
representing selldowns of CaixaBank and ICA, respectively.
The $230 million
IPO of Hoteles City squeaked by last week, but airline
Volaris could face a tougher battle if poor market
conditions persist.
Grana y Montero was still heard planning to launch a
follow-on that would represent the debut of its US ADS.
Investors note much hinged on the news
from Wednesday's US federal reserve meeting. A
positive tone could help both debt and equity issuers. ECM has
been looking at a potential record year. LatAm equity issuers
raised $19.80 billion from 41 transactions in 2013 through June
14, compared to $8.52 billion from 35 during the corresponding
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How everyone has them, how some come and go.
I remember the year my dad became obsessed with his weight.
He would stand on the scale several times a day,
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The zeros, he'd answer.
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Fixing the Zeros
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Float rhymes with boat. Hero rhymes with zero
Do heroes float?
Do zeros boat?
- July 24, 2007 at 2:56 PM
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Thanks Rocky, dling now, hoping I like it.
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Not what I was expecting...but I'm having a pretty good time playing. Thanks again Rocky.
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Turns out it is exactly the same game as the years old CoH, except (1) the whole leveling up thing has been complicated (2) the commander system has changed somewhat, looks like you gain access to commander stuff you have earned in previous games, not in the actual game you are playing and (3) COH Cash. Not sure what that is, sounds like you can buy weapons or stuff? I assume you can also earn them, but buying is a short cut.
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Companies are increasingly collecting and processing data from different sources. Generating reports from different sources consumes time and personnel resources. Typically, users had to first independently execute the different programs to generate all of the data needed in a report. This may include executing a relational database program to query the database and store the results in a particular format; and then executing other programs, such as an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) program and/or statistical program and then storing their respective results in the programs' designated formats. Through graphical user interfaces, the users copy and paste all or portions of the programs' results in a document for use in a report. Additional difficulties arise when the underlying data changes and the process must be repeated anew.
The present invention overcomes the aforementioned disadvantages as well as others by providing a computer-implemented system and method for generating at least one report from a plurality of data sources. The system and method include a data source specification to indicate the data to be retrieved from the data sources so that the report may be generated based upon the extracted data. A view specification indicates how the data is to be visually represented within the report. A report rendering engine causes the data to be retrieved from the data sources in accordance with the data source specification, and creates in accordance with the view specification a visual representation of the report based upon the retrieved data.
Based upon the report specification 36, a report rendering engine 38 integrates different types 40 of data from different sources 34. The report specification 36 may define how the different types of data should be represented visually in a report 32 regardless of whether the data source 34 is a Microsoft Access or Oracle database, or an OLAP system or a 4GL (generation language) statistical analysis language (such as 4GL SAS language from SAS Institute Inc.), a spreadsheet program, or a word processing program (and regardless of whether the data is in a Microsoft Word or Excel or relational format or OLAP format or other type of format).
The data structure 50 operates as a report model 58 from which one or more report instantiations 60 may be generated. If data 51 in one of the data sources (52, 54, 56) should change, the data model 58 automatically specifies where in a report instantiation 60 updates are needed. The data structure 50 may be a target and platform independent specification 62 while also allowing the report instantiations 60 to be rendered in many different formats. Thus, a report instantiation 60 may be generated in HTML, PDF, XML, RTF, WAP, and other formats.
Details of the data structure 50 are discussed in reference to
To specify the visual representation of the data, the data structure 50 includes a view specification to allow a template specification of tables, graphs, maps, images, video, OLE objects and text. The view specification provides the template for the layout and visual representations of the data. The view specification may be used to render specific formats based upon the process requesting the report. This allows the same report to be rendered as HTML, PDF, XML and other formats.
In addition to models and views, the data structure 50 encompasses other features which are useful to render the report:
The report specification's data structure 100 is shown in an XML format. The XML format permits tags to show how one data item relates to another data item, such as what data item is contained within another data item in the XML hierarchy. The highest level in the XML hierarchy is the Report tag. The different specifications needed to generate the report occupy the next level in the XML hierarchy. In this example, the style schemes specification, data models specification, and the view specification are used to generate the report of
The style scheme specification on
The models specification shown in
In this example, the view specification on
The title section 202 in the report 200 is entitled "Daily Sales Report" (as specified by the title section XML tags on
Two column regions (204 and 206) in the report 200 have been created to hold the OLAP and relational data. The first column region 204 shows the retrieved OLAP data (i.e., geography data items 210, time data items 212, and sales data items 214 in accordance with the table section data XML tags on
At process block 286, data is retrieved from multiple sources as specified by the model specification in the report specification. It should be understood that data may be retrieved through many ways, such as through interaction with one or more of the multiple sources or through the data being retrieved by obtaining the file or data stream that contains the desired data or through invoking a another application to obtain the needed data or through invoking another application to prompt a user for the desired data.
In accordance with view and style scheme specifications (and any other relevant specification contained in the report specification), visual representations of the retrieved data are created and used to form one or more reports at process block 288. It should be understood that one or more of the different specifications within the report specification may be used. For example, a report specification may use model and view specifications without using a style scheme specification.
The specifications may perform many different functions. For example, the data source specification may describe calculations to create additional data items from a data source. As another illustration, the data source specification may describe the format of the data (not just the type) that is to be used when supplying the data to the view specification when rendering the report. Processing continues on
With reference to
It was noted above that many different types of data sources may be used by the ad hoc reporting system. As a further example of this, the reporting system may specify model data contained within a model repository as a data source for use within one or more reports. The model repository is described in reference to
The data mining application 318 preferably includes an integrated model repository facility (MRF) 318A to control the export of models to the model repository 300, and the construction or update of one or more model indexes 326, 327, and 330. Alternatively, however, the MRF 318A could be a stand-alone application, in which case it would not be integrated into the data mining application 318.
The data mining application 318 analyzes data records stored in a data warehouse 332, or some other form of data storage facility. In particular, the data mining application 318 includes the decision tree processing module so that models with splitting variables may be generated, where the splitting variables are the variables in the data that best predict the outcome of the transactions. Although a single data warehouse 332 is shown in
If the decision tree models are saved in the model repository 300, there are one or more dimension indexes (327 and 330) for the models. These indexes (327 and 330) include text representations, graph representations, pointers to model databases, and model level descriptions. These indexes are used to search the model repository for the decision tree models.
As described above, the data mining application 318 is executed using a particular model specification. A model specification typically indicates which input data to analyze from the data warehouse 332, which pattern-finding algorithm (such as a neural network, decision tree, fuzzy logic, etc.) to use for the analysis, how to partition the data, how to assess the results from the analysis, etc.
A data mining model, as generated, is a set of attributes related to a run of a data mining application or another type of statistical-related software application. For example, depending on the algorithm used to create the model, the attributes include the location of the input data, the scoring code, the fit statistics, and so on. However, it should be understood that data mining models can be generated by applications other than a data mining application, such as by a statistical modeling software application.
The models 322A, 322B, 322C that are generated by the data mining application 318 are initially stored in individual project folders 320. For example, each model creator 312 may have his or her own project folder stored in a database of project folders 320. The model creators 312 would then store their own models 322A, 322B, 322C in their individual project folders.
Using the model repository facility 318A, certain useful ones of the generated models 322A, 322B, or 322C can be selected and exported into the model repository 300. These useful models can then be searched for and retrieved manually by end users 316, or programmatically by end user applications 316. The models 323A, 323B, 323N2 stored in the model repository 300 are organized according to a plurality of logical levels, including a project level, a diagram level, and a model level. The project level may include one or more diagrams, each of which describes a particular set of model specifications. Each diagram at the diagram level may then be associated with one or more individual models at the model level.
For each level of the model repository structure, one or more additional descriptive attributes may be associated with the models. The attributes provide descriptive information about the model that can be used to identify a particular model in the model repository 300 via a search and retrieval process. These attributes may be automatically associated with the models by the data mining application 318, or by the model repository facility 318A when the model is exported to the model repository 300. In addition, any of the system users 312, 314, 316 may associate additional attributes with the models. The model attributes may be assigned at the project level, the diagram level, or at the individual model level.
These model attributes are then organized and structured into one or more indexes 326, 327, 330, which are also stored in the model repository 300. These indexes may include a main type index 326, which includes some or all of the attributes for each of the models 323A, 323B and 323N2 in the model repository 300, and/or may include one or more special indexes, such as a tree-type index 327, which includes the attributes for a sub-set of all the models stored in the model repository 300. For example, the tree-type index 327 would include certain attributes of those models that were generated using a decision-tree algorithm. As described above, the decision-tree algorithm generates a type of attribute known as splitting variables, which are stored in the tree-type index 327. Also shown is a mini-index 330, which provides a quick-search capability for the tree-type index 327. These various indexes are used by end users 316, or by end user applications 316, in order to find a particular model, or set of models, within the model repository by executing a search and retrieval operation on the attributes stored in the indexes 326, 327, 330.
A variety of system users can interact with the data mining application 318 and the model repository 300, including a model creator 312 (e.g., a model designer), a model repository administrator 314, and an end user 316. The model creator 312 is the person who operates the data mining application 318 in order to generate a particular model. The model creator 312 determines the specifications for a particular data mining run, generates the corresponding model based on the specification, and then stores the model in his or her individual project folder 320. Alternatively, the model creator 312 could take an existing model from one of the project folders 320, modify the specification in some manner, and then generate a new model. Moreover, because the data in the data warehouse 332 typically changes over time, a model creator 312 can use the same specification against a later version of the data to generate a new model based on the updated data. The model creator 312 may then utilize the MRF 318A to export certain useful models to the model repository 300.
The model repository administrator 314 performs a variety of functions. One of these functions is to control access to the model repository 300. This may include controlling access rights to certain users, such as read access rights and write access rights. In this manner, the model repository administrator 314 can control which users can add or over-write models in the model repository (those having write access) and which users can only read models (those having only read access). The model repository administrator 314 may also control the process of deleting models from the model repository. Control of model deletion is important to ensure that a user with write access does not inadvertently delete a useful model from the model repository 300. In addition, the model repository administrator 314 may also determine which model attributes will be included in the main index 326.
The end user 316 may be a person who is interested in using the models in the model repository 300. The end user 316 could also be a model creator 312, although not all end users will be creating models. The end user 316 accesses the model repository 300 and searches for an appropriate model 323A, 323B, 323N2 by possibly examining the one or more index structures 326, 327, 330. By supplying search parameters and then comparing these search parameters against the attributes stored in the index structures, the end user 316 is able to find one or more useful models. Having found a useful model, the end user 316 may then obtain a copy of the information contained in the model.
The end user 316 may also be an end user application program that programmatically searches for and retrieves an appropriate model from the model repository 300. The end user application program can send a search and/or retrieval request to the model repository 300 over a network, such as a local, wide area, or global (e.g., Internet) network. This search and retrieval capability makes it possible to automate the deployment of models for specific purposes. For example, suppose that part of the operation of an application requires that it find a "best" model (perhaps based on the one with the best assessment results). Or suppose that part of the operation requires the application to choose a model from many similar ones (perhaps based on the one that was most recently generated from certain input data). That part of the operation can be accomplished automatically using the indexes 326, 327, 330 to find the one or more models 323, and then by employing a comparison algorithm (which may be user-specified) to determine which model is most suitable for the particular task. For example, the comparison algorithm could look for the model with the lowest rate of misclassification. The ability to search for a model or models programmatically is particularly important in real-time applications, such as web-based applications, because a person could not find the appropriate model or models fast enough to suit the real-time nature of the task. The selected model 323 then could be used by the end user 316, for example to generate scored data 334.
In addition, with the appropriate access level, an end user 316 could from time to time make a copy of the index(es) 326, 327, 330 and modify them in order to improve performance. Search and retrieval performance on the indexes would be improved because the modified copies would be stored locally to the end user, and because the copies could contain only the rows and columns of the index structure needed for his or her purpose. In this manner, each end user 316 could maintain his or her own index structures for the model repository 300.
Although a single model repository 300 is shown in
While examples have been used to disclose the invention, including the best mode, and also to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the invention, the patentable scope of the invention is defined by the claims, and may include other examples that occur to those skilled in the art. For example,
To indicate which mode 400 is presently selected (either by the user or by default or as automatically determined by a computer system), the data source specification within the report model 58 may contain within its data structure the selected mode. In addition to specifying which mode(s) is(/are) to be used for which data in the report, the data source specification may refer to external data sources 34 (e.g., SAS datasets, OLAP cubes, Oracle relational tables, etc.), as well as contain a snapshot, or copy, of the data from the original data source. This latter data is referred to as "embedded data."
Embedded data allows access to the data when an external data source is not available or able to connect to it or the user 410 does not wish to spend the time regenerating the data. It also supports the ability to have a report on data that is constantly changing. If the data changes the next day, the snapshot of the needed data is maintained within the report to be used for rendering the report rather than reconnecting to the original data source. In addition to supporting references to external data sources 34 and embedded data, the report model 58 also supports having both types in a single report.
As shown in
As illustrated in
The computer program 430 may use one or more of such bases (e.g., configuration information, past experience information, category information, etc.) to automatically determine a mode and/or policy. The computer program 430 may determine different modes 400 and policies for different data contained in the report. Moreover, a mode switch (or policy switch) may be effected by the computer program 430, such as: when the computer program 430 determines that the time and resources involved in data regeneration were initially acceptable but the regeneration historical trend data shows that it is no longer acceptable; in such a situation, mode switch to a snapshot mode 402 (or static policy) for that data is justified.
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"If someone is at high risk, then I would, in addition to trying to get them to lose weight and exercise, recommend medication, and personally, I favor pioglitazone. If you can really lose 30 pounds -- or whatever it is you need to lose -- then you might be able to discontinue the medication," said DeFronzo. "It's important to intervene early, rather than later, to save beta cell function."
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In the spirit of her blockbuster number-one New York Times best-seller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place.
One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick - why? She was standing right in her own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself. "Of all the elements of a happy life," she thought, "my home is the most important." In a flash, she decided to undertake a new happiness project, and this time, to focus on home.
And what did she want from her home? A place that calmed her and energized her. A place that, by making her feel safe, would free her to take risks. Also, while Rubin wanted to be happier at home, she wanted to appreciate how much happiness was there already.
So, starting in September (the new January), Rubin dedicated a school year - September through May - to making her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love.
In The Happiness Project, she worked out general theories of happiness. Here she goes deeper on factors that matter for home, such as possessions, marriage, time, and parenthood. How can she control the cubicle in her pocket? How might she spotlight her family's treasured possessions? And it really was time to replace that dud toaster.
Each month, Rubin tackles a different theme as she experiments with concrete, manageable resolutions - and this time, she coaxes her family to try some resolutions, as well.
With her signature blend of memoir, science, philosophy, and experimentation, Rubin's passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire readers to find more happiness in their own lives.
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"Mostly Helpful"
Most of Gretchen's tips and ideas are inspiring and thought provoking, a few are annoying. The narration is about the same...mostly just fine, sometimes annoying
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Gretchen, why didn't you read this yourself? This is YOUR story and should be in your voice. Kathe Mazur is a good narrator, but not for this story. This was distracting.
As a Happiness Project devotee, I found this book somewhat repetitive . . . perhaps this should be Gretchen's last happiness project.
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Very easy to listen. Well written for spoken format. The book moves right along and keeps the listener engaged.
The vignettes all contain pearls of wisdom for happiness...albeit perhaps sometimes more about material and time-related obstacles confronting a Yale-trained-attorney-turned-author than less affluent folks.
All were very well done. The daughters are fun.
Rich people can be happy and you can too!
"prefer the author as narrator"
Green Rubin did her own narration for the first book, and I found it much more engaging. I find myself dozing off with this narrator, and not following what she's saying.
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