What is ArDB?
ArDB is an intuitive software tool for developing databases of analytical results and generating powerful data visualisations and analytics. Brought to you by Elementar, a world leader in Elemental Analysis (EA), Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) instrumentation, ArDB allows users to create, manage and visualise a database of your analytical results. Data stored in ArDB can be used to easily generate 2D and 3D charts and plot results on a map with only a few simple clicks.
The cloud version of ArDB allows academics and private users to upload sample data as they are generating it - facilitating collaboration between scientists anywhere in the world. Access to the Elementar ArDB Cloud provides a number of key benefits, including:
- A safe and secure database system that protects data and ensures access is only granted to users with the correct credentials and permissions
- Automated backups are included by default to prevent catastrophic data loss
- Easy growth and expansion options to allow all of your data to be stored in one place for easy centralization and collaboration
- Store up to 10,000 records (expandable) within your account - shared across as many databases as you choose to create
Win an Elementar ArDB Cloud Licence and a smartwatch
To celebrate the launch of the Analytics Results Database (ArDB), we are giving away an Apple Watch or a Samsung Gear smartwatch and 10 Elementar ArDB Cloud licences, so you can take advantage of the benefits of having a simple, secure and reliable database for all your analytical results while making sure you’re kitted out with the latest in smartwear.
How to enter
For a chance to win the Apple Watch or a Samsung Gear smartwatch and one of the 10 Elementar ArDB Cloud licences, fill in the form on the right, telling us in just 100 words what you would do with access to ArDB. Answers will be judged by experts at Elementar who will decide who the smartwatch and the 10 licences will be awarded to. The winner will choose which brand of smartwatch they would prefer.
The closing date for entries is 30th November 2018.
Winners will receive a 24 months complementary license, which grants access to an Elementar ArDB Cloud account.
Data Analytics with ArDB
On-board multi-variate analysis
ArDB is able to combine all your analytical results from any type of instrumentation into a single database. With such complex multi-dimensional datasets finding patterns and trends in your data can be challenging.
ArDB has built in support for multi-variate analysis, making it just a few clicks away. Use Principal Component Analysis (PCA) or Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) to categorize, score and plot your results easily.
Using the resulting PCA / LDA components, ArDB makes it straight forward to compare any unknown samples against your database of authentic samples.
Discover geographic trends in your results
Samples analyzed in the lab may be inherently related to their geopgraphic origin. Being able to easily look for temporal and spatial trends in your data can be essential. ArDB offers powerful Geographical Information System (GIS) features that make this simple.
Once your results are plotted onto a map, data can be quickly aggregated to deliver average values for a given sampling site, or with the Smart Date functionality you can discover temporal trends over any time scale.
Visualize your data in 3-dimensions
With your results organized in ArDB, it is incredibly simple to begin visualizing your data.
Multiple charts can be plotted instantly and added to the Report page making it simple to see data trends as more samples are submitted to the database.
As well as 2-dimensional plots, ArDB is able to generate 3-dimensional plots which can be rotated, zoomed and panned to make interrogation even simpler, bringing unique perspectives to muti-variate plots.
Compare unknown sample results with your database
After generating your comprehensive database of authentic samples, you may want to compare unknown or suspicious samples against them.
ArDB allows analytical results from unknown samples to be easily compared against your known database.
Using the in-built Principal Component Analysis (PCA) or Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) functionality, unknown samples can be visually compared as well as categorized with an associated score to provide a statistical evaluation.
Extend your analytics beyond ArDB
ArDB provides powerful management and analysis tools tools for your analytical results as standard.
Take advantage of the many publicly available R packages and include them in your own customized R scripts that can be executed directly from ArDB to gain extra insights into your data.
Use your favourite statistical packages such as SPSS, Python and Matlab alongside ArDB, by taking your data offline using straight-forward filtering, grouping and sorting featured that get you the data you need faster.
Terms and conditions
1. Participants may only enter this competition once.
2. The prize is one Apple Watch or a Samsung Gear smartwatch and one of 10 Elementar ArDB Cloud licences.
3. The prize is not available to employees (or members of their immediate families) of Elementar or any group company, subsidiary, subcontractor of Elementar or anyone professionally connected with the promotion.
4. Once the competition is closed, 10 winners will be chosen by experts at Elementar and notified by email. If we do not get a response within 24 hours, we reserve the right to offer the prize to another participant.
5. The prize is as described, and is not transferable, not exchangeable for cash and no cash alternative will be offered in the event that a winner is unable to claim or use the prize for any reason.
6. If the advertised prize is not available, Elementar reserves the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
7. Elementar’s decision will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
8. Any personal data relating to participants will be used solely in accordance with current UK and EU data protection legislation and will not be disclosed to a third party without the individual’s prior consent.
9. Elementar will use any data submitted by participants only for the purposes of Elementar research, unless otherwise stated in the entry details. By entering this competition, all participants consent to the use of the personal data by Elementar for the purposes of the administration of this competition and any other purposes to which the entrant has consented.
10. Elementar reserves the right to amend the terms and conditions at any time. If Elementar do this, details of any changes will be published on this page.
11. Elementar accepts no responsibility for entries that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or fail to reach us once the competition has ended. Entries will only be eligible if a form is complete.
12. In consideration of Elementar agreeing to consider entrants to the Competition, each entrant hereby agrees that Elementar may make any and all Entries available in their publications and on their websites and any other media, whether now known or invented in the future.
13. Your entry and any information submitted by you must be personal to and relate specifically to you. You hereby warrant that your Entry and all information which you submit and/or distribute will not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or any other rights of any third party, and will not contain anything which is libellous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, harassing or threatening. If relevant, Elementar reserves the right, but not the obligation, to screen, filter and/or monitor information provided by you and to edit, refuse to distribute or remove the same.
14. Elementar cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by any entrant entering the Competition or as a result of accepting any prize.
15. By participating in this competition, participants agree to be bound by these terms and conditions and by the decision of Elementar in relation to all matter relating to the competition, which shall be final.
16. The closing date to be eligible to win a smartwatch and one of 10 Elementar ArDB Cloud licences is 30th November 2018. Any entries submitted after the closing date will not be counted.