The Traceis™ Data Exploration Studio (Special Edition) is designed to be used with the book Making Sense of Data, providing hands-on experience of the techniques described. The software is currently being beta tested and can be accessed using the links at the top of the page.

• Integrated tools: Contains a core set of data visualization, data analysis and data mining tools for making predictions and finding patterns and trends
• Easy-to-use user interface: A simple user interface guides you through analyzing data
• Visual and interactive: All views are linked, allowing you to look at the data from multiple angles

• Loading data: Use with data sets up to 1,000 rows and 20 columns
• Preparing the data: Methods for preparing a data set prior to analysis including cleaning, transforming and aggregating the data
• Tables and graphs: The following methods for summarizing data sets are provided: contingency tables, summary tables, frequency polygrams, histograms, scatterplots, box plots, multiple graphs
• Statistics: The statistical methods available include descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, chi-square, one-way analysis of variance and comparative statistics
• Grouping:The following grouping methods are available: clustering, associative rules and decision trees
• Prediction: Methods for building and applying predictive models are provided including regression models, k-nearest neighbors, classification trees, regression trees and neural networks