Stochastic Solutions is pleased to announce Miró.
Miró is the lead component of an analytical software suite
that has been under development by Stochastic Solutions
since 2007.
It is in production use as a beta product with a small number
of customers at present.
It will be some time before Miró is ready for full
release, and have not yet fully defined how, and in what forms
Miró will be released.
We do, however, expect to extend the beta programme as further functionality
is developed.
What is Miró?
We are not yet ready to issue a detailed description of Miró,
whose functionality remains fluid and is developing rapidly.
However, some things are already clear.
- Miró is an analytics package, covering data manipulation,
ad hoc reporting and query functionality and some
advanced modelling.
- Miró's goal is production-oriented
analytics,
meaning that it is focuses on high analyst productivity
for the skilled analyst,
from data import to production-ready or near-production-ready
output.
It does not currently offer a graphical user interface,
nor is it likely to do so soon; however, it does produce
high-quality, sometimes graphical output (using it's
sister program, Klee.) Such output draws its inspirations
more from Edward
Tufte than—say—Excel, focusing on
minimizing chart junk and maximizing meaningful information
content.
- Miró is cross-platform (at least across Unix, Linux, Mac and
Windows) with a focus on standards compliance.
It therefore requires a standards-compliant browser for
effective use of some of its components.
Such a browser can be installed as part of a Miró
implementation.
- Miró provides multiple interfaces, including a programmatic
interface (an API), a command-line/scripting interface
and some web interfaces.
The API layer makes it a powerful base for some kinds
of embedded analytical applications.
Miró also includes a very powerful (lisp-like) expression
language for data manipulation.
- Miró automatically generates detailed logs providing a
fairly comprehensive audit trail and the ability to rerun
analysis sessions, either verbatim or with specified
modifications.
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Register Interest
Clearly, we aren't giving too much detail away yet, but more information
will be forthcoming over the following months.
We expect to be running an expanded beta programme with carefully
chosen organizations as full release approaches, particular for some
of the more novel and advanced analytical components.
If you would like to register interest in the beta programme,
drop us an email at
And if you would like to receive occasional updates on Miró,
drop us an email at
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