General discussion

David Coderre who is a long time data analytics guru is writing a blog about his career.  He recently retired from the Canadian Federal Government.  You can check out the blog here: http://caats.ca/blog/

Hi Brian
Is there a system field that holds the name of the running script?
for example: I have few versions of the same script. They are all having the same name suffixed by V1, V2, V3, etc.
The scripts generate excel files and I want to make sure the generated excel files are stored in different folders, depending on which version of the script is running.
 
Thanks a lot!
Avi

Does anyone know of an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that integrates IDEA Script? I wasn't able to find anything of use when it comes to the generic IDE's out there. 
Essentially, I am looking for: 

• IntelliSense (or something similar) 
• Debugger
• Stack Watching
• Library references
• and all of the rest of the generic goodies. 

Thanks and I'll be waiting to hear back, 

Hi Brian, how are you?
I have a problem. I want to remove the character " from a field. I do not wisht o use @strip because it removes all special characters. I could not find a function that will accept " as the character to handle (replace, remove, etc. - they all failed)
Thans!
Avi

Looks like IDEA has released V10.1 and from what I was reading it has added lots of new features for the visualization part of the app.

Check out the blog for more info and screen shots: http://www.casewareanalytics.com/blog/product-close-what%E2%80%99s-new-…

I saw this article and thought it might interest some users.

http://acfeinsights.squarespace.com/acfe-insights/2016/1/15/benfords-la…

Hi there,
I am new to IDEA and IDEA scripting.  I have a fairly extensive background though with using ACL and scripting in ACL.  I was wondering if there advice that you could give me on some approaches to help me get up to speed with learning how to script in IDEA and also the differences and comparisons between scripting in IDEA and ACL.
One of my first observations is it does seem like the script code for IDEA is longer than what is required in ACL for doing similar tasks.
Any advice, tips or assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Hello
I need to join 2 databases where the first has a date and the second has a period. The joining has to be done where the date of the first database is within the period of the second database.
So: database 1 has date 1 oct 2015, database 2 has 2 dates, date_from 5 jul 2015 and date_to 15 dec 2015 then the join is ok.
Has anyone any idea how to solve this in Idea, version 8 or 9?
Thanks !
Wim

I just noticed this morning that Caseware Analytics have a new white paper entitled: Driving Better Data Analysis: Moving Beyond Spreadsheets, it compares using a spreadsheet with using IDEA.  Good read for anyone wondering why they would use IDEA instead of Excel.  (http://www.casewareanalytics.com/sites/default/files/whitepapers/caseware_analytics_driving_better_data_analysis_web.pdf)

Hi, If my post has not its place in here, I will remove it. I would like to be advised on the computer characteristics essential for Idea software. Indeed, I have the possibility to change my work PC soon the which has 8 GB of RAM. We have now millions of data to analyze, and my portable PC takes a lot of time to execute one task. And it kind of became monotask...Could you tell me which characteristics need to be optimized for IDEA software ? -Memory RAM ?   -Processor ? -Type of hardrive ? -Portable computer or desktop computer ?