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Seminars

Why engineers should supplement Excel with MATLAB

This is a seminar developed by The MathWorks to show engineers who use Excel the advantages they get by doing their work in MATLAB. It highlights how MATLAB can supplement the capabilities of Excel by providing access to thousands of pre-built engineering and advanced analysis functions and versatile visualisation tools. We will also discuss how MATLAB improves computational speed and enables you to handle larger data sets. More details are available here.

Data analysis – STATISTICA or Excel?

This seminar will be of benefit to anyone who has to find relationships in data, as well as those who need to make statistical tests. The focus will be to show the huge increase in productivity gained by using STATISTICA instead of Excel. Because setting up an analysis is so fast, you look at more possibilities, and find errors and exceptions quickly. Of course, you will want to graph your data to gain insights and to display the results to others, and here you will revel in the variety of graphs and their ease of customisation. And yes, you can do in-depth statistical analysis comparable with or better than any other program of its type.

To see reasons why you should find out more, click here.

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Design calculations and documentation with Mathcad

It is very hard to make an Excel document that contains all the information about your calculations in a form that is readily audited. Few spreadsheets are simple enough to understand that it is quick to modify them for re-use. Mathcad documents can do these things and much more. Mathcad's interface is like a document from a text book, and none of the calculation details are hidden. You just write a calculation in the language you used at school and Mathcad will give you the answer.

You can do the simple things very quickly, but if you wish you can do complex engineering calculations that call on a large library of pre-programmed functions. You can even do symbolic mathematics to simplify your problem before you start putting numbers into your equations. The document files are saved as XML, which means they can be searched by your document management system, too. We can show you more at this link.

Paper and Web based surveys with SurveyPro.

It is surprisingly easy to handle the mechanics of surveys if you have the right software (and difficult if you don't). SurveyPro provides tools that you use to design the questionnaire, and as you do so it automatically creates a database, data entry forms, and a data summary report generator specific to that survey. In addition, you can create customised reports that show interactions between the questions, and create complex summaries for any categories of response (e.g., answers to all the recreational questions by city, for males and females separately).

You can make a questionnaire suitable for printing on paper, and then turn it into a Web survey. Or vice-versa. Click here to find out more.

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Webinars

Public Web meetings (Webinars)

On 4 April we will conduct webinars to demonstrate Mathcad and STATISTICA. You will see the presenter's computer screen on your computer, using the Internet, and you will listen to the presenter with a phone call. Not quite as good as being there, but we can easily show you the key aspects of the products. The system we use does not require the installation of any programs, although Java must be enabled on your Web browser.

The material will be similar to that of the seminars described above, but will not be in as much detail as the seminars. To read a description and to register for the Mathcad one click here, and for the STATISTICA one click here.

Personalised one-on-one Webinars

We can perform demonstrations of most of our products at a time to suit you, using the Webinar technology described above. Ask our sales people for a demonstration, or contact Ray if you want to know how it works.

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Training

STATISTICA Training

When we conduct STATISTICA training we often get comments from people who had used it for a while saying that they wished they had done the course long before. The next scheduled training course is on 21 April in Auckland. Click here to see details.

Mathcad Training

See the comment about STATISTICA training above. Having professional training on any new program is always cost-effective. Next course is 28 April in Auckland. Click here to see details.

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Upgrades

Special Mathcad promotion

Upgrade to version 13 from Mathcad 2000, 2001i, 11 or 12 before the 31 March 2006 and you will receive a free Data Analysis Extension Pack. Contact Darrel.

MATLAB

The MathWorks have moved to a system in which they release an update of all their products twice a year. In March 2006 The MathWorks will ship Release 2006a, the latest version of the MATLAB and Simulink product families. There will be a Release 2006b later in the year, and so on next and following years. Users in current maintenance will be invited to download a pre-release version a few weeks before the final version is shipped to customers.

More details are available on-line.

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Intel 2006

2006 versions of Intel Compilers for C++ and Fortran, VTune Analyzers, Performance Libraries, Threading and Cluster Tool products are now available. Contact Glen.

Dr.Frame2D Version 3.0

Dr.Frame2D is a tool for real-time, direct manipulation structural analysis. Much faster and more convenient than Finite Element Modelling! Version 3.0 adds a number of significant modeling features. This release of Dr. Frame2D releases many changes, some of which revolve around the adoption of various features from Dr. Frame3D, and others which are additional, to appear later in the next 3D release. For a list of the new features visit this link. Contact Darrel.

GrafiCalc 2007

GrafiCalc enables users to perform interactive "what if" analysis of geometry-dependent engineering options, and to Goalseek (backsolve) exact geometry to meet specified targets. The new version includes automated constraint inferring capability, usability related enhancements, updated documentation including three sets of tutorials covering sketching, calculations, and backsolving, and a model library which includes GrafiCalc examples with notes. Contact Darrel.

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SurveySolutions 7

SurveySolutions is the product that we recommend for organisations who wish to maximise the benefit to their organisations that surveying their stakeholders on the Web can provide. The new version includes a friendlier user interface, more robust questionnaire design and survey functionality, and expanded invitation features. Contact Glen

The Survey System V9.0

The Survey System is particularly well suited to small market research companies who include computer-assisted telephone surveys in their product range, since it handles all the hard work of respondent management. The upgrade saves you time through a new user interface, direct importing of questionnaires from Word, and new reports, including an innovative dropout analysis. Contact Glen

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Electromagnetic field modelling tools

XFDTD V6.3 offers 3D far-zone plotting, STEP & IGES file export, 2D Editor improvements, more efficient rendering, and material improvements. Contact Darrel.

Wireless Insite V2.1 includes significant improvements and added functionality to both the user interface and propagation modeling. New features include animated field output and movie player interface with MPEG export, and improvements to the UTD irregular terrain and the Full3D propagation models. Contact Darrel.

MATHCODE C++ 1.3 AND MATHCODE F90 1.0.1 for Mathematica

These third-party Mathematica application packages translate your Mathematica functions into highly efficient and readable C++ and Fortran 90 code. Customers receive a 25% discount on these upgraded products through 31 March 2006. Contact Glen.

STATISTICA free update

Users of STATISTICA 7.1 can update their program to version 7.1.340.0 from here. (See Help/About/Modules to find out if you already have this version)

The above web page describes the new features of the update, such as Wafer map (a new 3D Surface/Contour plot), and Variability plot (a new 2D graph).

The new “Cloaking” spreadsheet feature allows you to hide rows and/or columns in a spreadsheet. This is like the “Hide” feature in Excel, and cloaking rows means setting the row height to 0, just like in Excel. This is new to STATISTICA 7.1.340.0. Cloaked rows will be used in graphs and analyses, but can be converted to Excluded or Hidden states using the Auto Filter feature on the Data menu.

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New products

SimEvents – a Simulink extension

SimEvents extends Simulink with tools for modelling and simulating discrete-event systems using queues and servers. With SimEvents you can create a discrete-event simulation model in Simulink to model the passing of entities through a network of queues, servers, gates, and switches based on events. You can configure entities with user-defined attributes to model networks in packet-based communications, manufacturing, logistics, mission planning, supervisory control, service scheduling, and other applications. SimEvents lets you model systems that are not time-driven but are based on discrete events, such as the creation or movement of an entity, the opening of a gate, or the change in value of a signal. Contact Darrel or browse here.

Statistical Inference Package for Mathematica

This is a new third-party Mathematica application package. It makes it easy to do classical likelihood-based statistical inference, and includes procedures for maximum likelihood estimation, likelihood ratio tests for general parametric hypotheses, likelihood-based confidence intervals for general-interest parametric functions, and other tools for building statistical models, with full access to all the algorithm-building and graphical display features of Mathematica. Contact Glen.

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General

Exchange rates

At the time of writing this the exchange rate against the currencies of our suppliers is dropping quickly, as it has for long been predicted to do. We will have to adjust our selling prices to suit, so you may be able to save some money by buying as soon as you can!

STATISTICA Visual Basic

Use STATISTICA Visual Basic to automate repetitive tasks and create powerful, full-featured applications that meet your specific needs. If you have a specific set of results you have to generate every week, or every survey you do, you should consider recording a SVB macro to do it. Talk to Glen about automating various mundane tasks.

One user's comment on STATISTICA

In a room where at least 3 other statistical programs were being applied to the same problem: "The more I see of other statistical software the more I know why we have STATISTICA."

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New pages on www.hrs.co.nz

PLECS - fast simulation of electrical circuits within the Simulink environment.

E-Notebook - replace paper notebooks in Chemistry laboratories.

MapViewer - an affordable mapping and spatial analysis tool.

Scientific Notebook - create attractive documents that contain text, mathematics, and graphics.

Scientific Word - compose mathematical, scientific, and technical documents using natural mathematical notation. Optionally use LaTeX typesetting.

MuPADPro - a computer algebra system with a rich set of features and tools for visualisation, animation, and interactive manipulation of 2D and 3D plots

Free tool helps blind people to do mathematics

LAMBDA editor is free software that helps blind and partially sighted people to do mathematics. It is an integrated and innovative system to manage scientific documents with Braille peripherals and voice synthesis, using MathML to achieve compatibility with other software. See here for more information.

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Working with HRS

User Stories

If you have any newsworthy user stories related to our products that you think our customers would be interested in reading, please contact Leon.

Advertising your events on the HRS Website

If we sponsor your event, or your delegates are likely to be using one of our products, contact Leon to place details of your conference on our website.

HRS Software Guide

If you want or any of your colleagues would like a copy of our 64 page Software Guide sent to you, please contact Leon or call 0800 477 776.

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Best regards

Leon Tepania
Marketing Manager
Hoare Research Software Ltd
Email: leon@hrs.co.nz

For all general enquiries please phone us on 0800 477 776

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