Synaptic

We are happy to present a Christmas gift from us – a new version of Synapse. Version 1.1 includes over 400 improvements including new features and bug fixes. It would take up too much space to list them all, but here are a few highlights:

• A new visualizer, the SOM View that allows visualization and preprocessing of data using Self-Organizing maps. It can also produce clustering filters. For more details see this.
• A new powerful expression filter that allows you to create new features based on equation evaluation.
• New much requested “housekeeping” filters such as the reorder filter and rename filter.
• Windows Vista now supported
• Greatly improved support for data with a large number of features (such as images), including new ranged normalization and great performance enhancements.
• New binary compressed xml file format (.synx) for solutions (old plain xml still supported)
• The Error Analyzer can now send error (system metrics) data to preprocessing in the form of a full data unit.

…and much, much more. Documentation for the new features will be published shortly.

If you have Synapse installed and automatic updates enabled, you’ll get the 1.1 version just by starting up Synapse. Customers can download the full installation package from the customer area. A 30-day evaluation version can be downloaded here.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Peltarion!