How does a tool such as ILOG Discovery fits with business analytics, data mining and knowledge discovery solutions ?
Visual data analysis tools such as ILOG Discovery can be used either as a complement or an easy to use replacement for data mining solutions: • As a complement, ILOG Discovery is useful in the early stages of knowledge discovery, to get a good picture of your data sets, cleanup data and find out where to dig for. During the process, ILOG Discovery is useful to view intermediate results, filter out findings that do not seem to make sense. The most prominent feature of visual data analysis is that it lets you introduce common knowledge into the discovery process: from your knowledge of the domain, you can often find explanations for obscure findings, relate the correlations to some knowledge which is not in the data, but that you know well. Hence it is useful to drive the knowledge discovery algorithms. Finally, ILOG Discovery becomes a powerful tool to report and share subtle findings: those need to be put into context and highlighted properly to be convincing. Because ILOG Discovery le
