Where did PROXIMITY come from?
PROXIMITY is the result of over five years of active research in Relational Knowledge Discovery (see our publications for behind-the-GUI specifics of this research). PROXIMITY provides the latest RKD techniques to researchers and analysts in an easy to use, open-source environment. • How do I get my data into PROXIMITY? There are two approaches currently available: • The standard approach uses an XML file that contains sections for objects, links, attributes, and collections of objects and links. This approach is fast to load and scales to large databases. The Proximity distribution includes a script for converting standard tabular data to PROXIMITY’s import XML format. Please see the tutorial for more information on this approach. • PROXIMITY also provides a very fast utility to input data from text files stored in a specific format. More information about the text import and export utilities available in the tutorial. • For small databases you can use our “Smart ASCII” text file form
