What's new in Insights 6.5.5
May 2, 2023
- macOS 13 Ventura support
- runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel (Universal app)
- requires macOS 10.14 or later
- Bug fixes, maintenance and performance improvement
New in Insights 6.5.2 (Jun 3, 2022)
- macOS 12 Monterey support
- runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel (Universal app)
- requires macOS 10.14 or later
- fixes a bug when displaying explicit model equation in reports for RBF and Sigmoidal models
- Maintenance and performance improvement
New in Insights 6.5.1 (Apr 5, 2022)
- Fixes a bug when displaying explicit model equation in reports for RBF and Sigmoidal models
New in Insights 6.5 (Mar 4, 2022)
- macOS 12 Monterey support
- runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel (Universal binary)
- requires macOS 10.14 or later
- Maintenance, bug fixes, and performance improvement
New in Insights 6.3.5 (Feb 21, 2021)
- Fixed a bug that prevented data tables to draw properly when scrolled
New in Insights 6.3.4 (Feb 10, 2021)
- macOS 11 Big Sur support
- Maintenance, bug fixes, and performance improvement
New in Insights 6.3.3 (May 25, 2020)
- macOS 10.15 Catalina support
- Maintenance, bug fixes, and performance improvement
New in Insights 6.3.2 (Jan 13, 2020)
- macOS 10.15 Catalina support
- Maintenance, bug fixes, and performance improvement
New in Insights 6.1.4 (Jul 13, 2018)
- Minor bug fixes
- Maintenance and performance improvement release
New in Insights 6.1.3 (Mar 21, 2018)
- Minor bug fixes
- Maintenance and performance improvement release
New in Insights 6.1.2 (Jan 9, 2018)
- Fixes a few issues under macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Maintenance and performance improvement release
New in Insights 6.1 (Sep 11, 2017)
- New Features:
- System models: Self-organized regression equations of all models of a system are added to the model report
- System model graph: The relevance of a model input is now displayed when selected
- Maintenance and performance improvement release
New in Insights 6.0 (Aug 2, 2017)
- Introducing modeling of static and dynamic, linear and non-linear systems of equations as a superset of vector auto-regressive (VAR) models for easy ex ante forecasting and self-detection of the interdependence structure of the system.
- New examples added:
- unique System models of the U.S., Japanese, and German national economies with ex ante forecasts until 2021, compared to forecasts provided by the International Monetary Fund. Example
- Forecasting of financial market indexes.
- System model for an air quality forecasting problem.
New in Insights 5.1.5 (Mar 21, 2017)
- Improved print handling for plots, reports, and tables.
- Fixes a bug that may appear when exporting dynamic models to Excel.
- General maintenance.
New in Insights 5.1.4 (Jan 12, 2017)
- Adds new information to cost curve diagrams.
- Fixes two bugs in reporting classification and cost-optimized models.
New in Insights 5.1.3 (Jan 5, 2017)
- Fixes a bug with Microsoft Excel for Mac, version 15, when trying to import data from a worksheet.
- General maintenance and performance update.
New in Insights 5.1.2 (Nov 18, 2016)
- New Features:
- Fixes a synchronization bug when adding new data to a worktable.
New in Insights 5.1.1 (Nov 6, 2016)
- Fixes a bug with Microsoft Excel for Mac, version 15, when trying to import data from a worksheet.
- General maintenance and performance update.
New in Insights 5.1 (Oct 4, 2016)
- Various, updated example models, such as cost-optimized models for fetal state monitoring, QSAR models for toxicity screening of chemical substances, or climate models for ozone concentration and global mean temperature. More than 20 examples are included for illustrative purposes, taken from the fields of Climate Change, Energy, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, and Business.
New in Insights 5.0 (Apr 13, 2016)
- New Features:
- Model complexity optimization option to get most parsimonious, most compact models in result of model self-organization from data.
- Generation of explicit model equations from data of the form y = f(x) not only for linear but also for multi-linear and non-linear models, which significantly helps interpreting models.
- For multi-linear models, Insights now ensures that the obtained final model is in fact multi-linear, not only the neuron transfer functions.
- Calculation of the importance of the model inputs for both model composites and individual models developed with Insights version 5.
- Maintenance and performance optimization.
- New plots added for composite and individual models developed with Insights version 5:
- Importance of model inputs and variables for all parametric models;
- ROC and Cost Curves as valuable tools for binary classification models;
New in Insights 4.0.1 (Jan 19, 2016)
- Now runs on Mac OS X 10.9 or higher again.
- Maintenance release.
New in Insights 4.0 (Nov 3, 2015)
- New Features:
- Significantly improved processing speed by new In-Memory database; option between fast In-Memory DB or file-based DB for large amount of data records.
- New model export to Python and Objective-C. Integrate ready-to-use source code of your developed models into your web applications or other projects. Works on both individual models and model ensembles.
- Display of model accuracy of predictions in model plots on-the-fly as an immediate measure of model performance on new data.
- For classification models, additional display of key discrimination parameters in scatter plot for easy evaluation of the power of the model on predicted data.
- General maintenance and bug fixing.
- Updated and new examples added:
- Gene expression of 2000 genes (inputs) for modeling tumor tissue as an example for underdetermined, high-dimensional modeling;
- Network intrusion detection as an example for the problem of detecting rare events;
- Ionosphere modification and analysis of pulsed high-power radar signals from a phased array of antennas;
- Daily ozone level detection.
New in Insights 3.5.1 (Oct 11, 2015)
- Maintenance and bug fixing for OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
New in Insights 3.5 (Jun 23, 2015)
- New Features:
- A new modeling option that allows to replace the current model by the the new model has been added. This reduces the size of the modelbase and makes it more manageable.
- An additional parameter, the Area under the ROC Curve, often used to rank classification models is now calculated and reported for all classification models.
- The default number of training and forecast data to work with, which is copied to a model after modeling, can be set now manually in the preference pane.
- Labeling of plots has been redesigned.
- Maintenance and bug fixing.
New in Insights 3.4.2 (Apr 24, 2015)
- New features:
- Maintenance and stability release.
- New feature for self-detection respectively manual specification of stationarity of time processes for Similar Patterns.
- Improved self-optimization of Similar Patterns composites.
- Option for deleting all models in a model base.
New in Insights 3.4.1 (Mar 30, 2015)
- New Features:
- New example on Congressional voting behavior added.
- Feature for self-detection respectively manual specification of stationarity of time processes for Similar Patterns added.
- Improved self-optimization of Similar Patterns composites.
- Option for deleting all models in a model base added.
- Maintenance and stability release.
New in Insights 3.3 (Jan 30, 2015)
- New Features:
- Adds the step width parameter to Similar Patterns search for direct specification of the pattern search behavior in modeling.
- Maintenance and stability release.
New in Insights 3.2.4 (Dec 2, 2014)
- Fixes a problem when migrating the app to an other computer.
New in Insights 3.2.2 (Oct 24, 2014)
New in Insights 3.2.1 (Oct 6, 2014)
- Bug fixed that may not correctly update the work table of Similar Patterns models when adding data to the database table.
New in Insights 3.1.8 (Jul 11, 2014)
- Fixed model export bugs on very complex models exported to Excel (static and classification models) and AppleScript (RBF models).
- Maintenance.
New in Insights 3.1.6 (Jun 5, 2014)
- New example on Wind Farm Energy Generation added.
- Maintenance.
New in Insights 3.1.5 (May 13, 2014)
- Auto-updating of models in Insights Pro now continuously stores up to 24 forecasting steps ahead in Excel.
- Maintenance.
New in Insights 3.1.4 (Apr 28, 2014)
- New example on wind farm power generation added.
- Fixed a bug in version 3.1.1 that in some cases avoided the generation of higher accurate models.
New in Insights 3.1.2 (Apr 22, 2014)
- New example models and data added.
- Maintenance and performance improvements.
New in Insights 3.1 (Mar 25, 2014)
- In version 3 Similar Patterns has been implemented as an outstanding modeling technology that finds self-similar patterns in complex, fuzzy, or very noisy time processes for very fast and easy forecasting such as market prices, market demand, or sales figures.
- Version 3.1 adds the Autoupdate function for Similar Patterns models. Run simulations on historical data stored in Excel for backtesting, for example, or use it on real-time data for instant forecasting. All results are reported and stored in Excel for further application.
- Adds two new model export formats for integrating models into workflows or projects directly: In addition to implementing models ready-to-use in Excel, now export your models working in AppleScript or in TEXT format for further analysis in MATLAB, for example.
- An outstanding feature of the Professional version now is high-dimensional self-organization of models from up to 2000 inputs, directly, even on small samples sizes.
New in Insights 3.0 (Jan 27, 2014)
- NEW FEATURES:
- Implementation of Similar Patterns as an outstanding modeling technology that finds self-similar patterns in complex, fuzzy, or very noisy time processes for very fast and easy forecasting such as market prices, market demand, or sales figures.
- Introduction of Insights Free edition with full modeling support.
- A number of new examples added:
- Diagnosis of fetal heart rate signals (normal, suspect, pathologic) from a number of measurements;
- Hourly and daily bike sharing activity forecasting up to 120 hours ahead;
- Indoor temperature forecasting for energy management and control purposes;
- Prediction of residuary resistance (hydrodynamics) of sailing yachts at the initial design stage;
- Prediction and analysis of climate models simulation outcome (fail or succeed).
New in Insights 2.0.8 (Jan 13, 2014)
- Performance and maintenance release.
New in Insights 2.0.7 (Oct 30, 2013)
- OS X 10.9 support.
- Fixed another Excel formatting issue (localization) for model export.
New in Insights 2.0.6 (Oct 29, 2013)
- New Features:
- OS X 10.9 support.
New in Insights 2.0.5 (Oct 26, 2013)
- New Features:
- OS X 10.9 support.
New in Insights 2.0.1 (Aug 13, 2013)
- Introducing cost-sensitive modeling for building tailored, purpose-driven classification models from imbalanced data sets;
- Two new examples featuring cost-sensitive modeling added: Gene expression of tumor tissue (2000 inputs) and network intrusion detection representing the problem of identification of rare events;
- Additional references added for further reading about the backgrounds and concepts of Insights;
- Bugs fixed which prevented opening examples and documents and which showed some graph irregularities under OS X 10.7 Lion.
- Bug fixed that crashed Insights under very rare conditions.
New in Insights 1.6.1 (Jun 12, 2013)
- New example on power generation and sales forecasting added;
- Support of CSV data import;
- Maintenance.
New in Insights 1.6 (May 7, 2013)
- Improved modeling algorithm leads to significantly more accurate linear models.
- Linear models are now presented and implemented in Excel as a single explicit regression equation for easier readability and interpretation.
New in Insights 1.5 (Apr 26, 2013)
- KnowledgeMiner is renamed Insights to highlight the core value and functionality of the app: gaining new knowledge and insights into real-world processes by unique predictive model self-organization from data.
- Maintenance.
New in Insights 6.0.2 (Feb 26, 2010)
- [fixed] maintenance update for 10.6
New in Insights 6.0 (Apr 9, 2009)
- [new] We recommend downloading and installing the combination (yX) and KnowledgeMiner. This is an upgrade for only the KnowledgeMiner part of the package.
- [new] Cost curves added for displaying optimized cost- sensitive classification models.
- [updated] Business Intelligence Case Study app version 1.0.8.
- [fixed] Class value assignment for classification models in model report.
New in Insights 5.4.1 (Oct 22, 2008)
- [new] Displays uncertainty interval in regression plots for cost-sensitive models; This makes interpretation of results easier.
New in Insights 5.4 (Jun 17, 2008)
- [new] Platinum edition now supports table dimensions of up to 30,000 rows and 30,000 columns;
- [new] Built-in cost-sensitive modeling for both classification and regression models according to a given cost-benefit matrix and an accepted target uncertainty; this allows self-organization of predictive, cost-optimized models;
- [new] Enhanced and extended AppleScript support for building models and their workflow integration;
- [updated] Tutorial and documentation;
- [updated] MS Excel model export v.1.1.2;
- [updated] TransformModel version 1.0.10;