PolyAnalyst
PolyAnalyst is a data science software platform developed by
Megaputer Intelligence that provides an environment for text PolyAnalyst
mining, data mining, machine learning, and predictive analytics. It
is used by Megaputer to build tools with applications to health
care, business management, insurance, and other industries.
PolyAnalyst has also been used for COVID-19 forecasting and
scientific research.
Overview Developer(s) Megaputer
Intelligence
PolyAnalyst's graphical user interface contains nodes that can be Initial release 1994[1]
linked into a flowchart to perform an analysis. The software
provides nodes for data import, data preparation, data visualization, Stable release 6.5
data analysis, and data export.[2][3] PolyAnalyst includes features Type Data science,
for text clustering, sentiment analysis, extraction of facts, artificial
keywords, and entities, and the creation of taxonomies and intelligence, text
ontologies. Polyanalyst supports a variety of machine learning mining, predictive
algorithms, as well as nodes for the analysis of structured data and analytics
the ability to execute code in Python and R.[4][5] PolyAnalyst also
acts as a report generator, which allows the result of an analysis to Website www.megaputer
be made viewable by non-analysts.[6] It uses a client–server model .com (https://www.
and is licensed under a software as a service model.[6] megaputer.com/)
Business Applications
Insurance
PolyAnalyst was used to build a
subrogation prediction tool which
A screenshot of a PolyAnalyst flowchart showing the use of a
determines the likelihood that a claim
convolutional neural network node.
is subrogatable, and if so, the amount
that is expected to be recovered. The
tool works by categorizing insurance claims based on whether or not they meet the criteria that are needed
for successful subrogation.[7] PolyAnalyst is also used to detect insurance fraud.[8]
Health care
PolyAnalyst is used by pharmaceutical companies to
assist in pharmacovigilance. The software was used to
design a tool that matches descriptions of adverse
events to their proper MedDRA codes, determines if
side-effects are serious or non-serious, and to set up
cases for ongoing monitoring if needed.[9] PolyAnalyst
has also been applied to discover new uses for existing
drugs by text mining ClinicalTrials.gov[10] and to
forecast the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the
United States and Russia.[11][12] A heat map showing Megaputer's COVID-19
forecast
Business management
PolyAnalyst is used in business management to analyze written customer feedback including product
review data, warranty claims, and customer comments.[13] In one case, PolyAnalyst was used to build a
tool which helped a company monitor its employees' conversations with customers by rating their messages
for factors such as professionalism, empathy, and correctness of response. The company reported to
Forrester Research that this tool had saved them $11.8 million annually.[14]
SKIF Cyberia Supercomputer
PolyAnalyst is run on the SKIF Cyberia Supercomputer at Tomsk State University, where it is made
available to Russian researchers through the Center for Collective Use (CCU). Researchers at the center
use PolyAnalyst to perform scientific research and to management the operations of their universities.[15] In
2020, researchers at Vyatka State University (in collaboration with the CCU) performed a study in which
PolyAnalyst was used to identify and reach out to victims of domestic violence through social media
analysis. The researchers scraped the web for messages containing descriptions of abuse, and then
classified the type of abuse as physical, psychological, economic, or sexual. They also constructed a
chatbot to contact the identified victims of abuse and to refer them to specialists based on the type of abuse
described in their messages. The data collected in this study was used to create the first ever Russian-
language corpus on domestic violence.[16][17]
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External links
Official website (https://www.megaputer.com/polyanalyst/)
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