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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope this is the start of a discussion thread
with the Gestalt developers.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jean-Marc or anyone else, could you reply to
Richard (and the gestalt list) with an answer to his question
below?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:RWherry@xchange.com" title=RWherry@xchange.com>Richard Wherry</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:bizzaro@geoserve.net"
title=bizzaro@geoserve.net>'J.W. Bizzaro'</A> ; <A
href="mailto:gestalt-system-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net"
title=gestalt-system-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net>gestalt-system-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:56 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> RE: [GS-discuss] Piper</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=762490718-06072000><SPAN
class=268475018-06072000>Jeff</SPAN>,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=762490718-06072000></SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial
size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=762490718-06072000>Looks very interesting.</SPAN><SPAN
class=762490718-06072000> <SPAN class=268475018-06072000>It c</SPAN>ould be
used as a framework for the <SPAN class=268475018-06072000>G</SPAN>estalt
components which could be individual data manipulation programs (for example).
I'd be interested in hearing the opinion of someone who has a more concrete
idea of the goals of Gestalt System than myself.
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=762490718-06072000></SPAN><SPAN
class=762490718-06072000></SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial
size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=762490718-06072000>If I
had a dataset consisting of continuous variables and categorical variables
sitting on a machine somewhere and wanted to compute averages for all continuous
variables and frequencies for all categorical variables, how would this be
accomplished?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=762490718-06072000></SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial
size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=762490718-06072000>It
brings to mind Clementine from SPSS - at least in the "Work Flow Diagram"
sense.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=268475018-06072000>Regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=268475018-06072000>Richard</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=268475018-06072000></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=268475018-06072000> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma></FONT><FONT size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> J.W.
Bizzaro [mailto:bizzaro@geoserve.net]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 06, 2000
12:53 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
gestalt-system-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [GS-discuss]
Piper<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings. I think Gestalt and Piper have
some similar goals:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <A
href="http://theopenlab.org/piper">http://theopenlab.org/piper</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Piper is a recent merger or collaboration between
4 projects: Loci, Overflow, GMS, and BlueBox.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not certain where there may be some
overlap. Perhaps you could take a look at Piper and let me know what you
think.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff</FONT></DIV>
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