You’ve Scaled Your Data Collection, Now Scale Your Analysis
Sift
Explore With ease
Sift was designed from the ground up for the modern era of motion capture. Explore your largest data sets with flexible queries and easy visualizations. Curate your data by excluding unwanted signals and shaping what’s left. Automate your analysis at scale.
Insights can hide anywhere in big data, so Sift’s query mechanism helps you pull out the signals and metrics you want quickly. Visualize data in different ways. And connect your data back to full animations or original video data. Because when it’s easy to explore data you realize that there’s more than meets the eye.
Auto-build queries
Quickly dive into your exploration with auto-built queries covering the signals and metrics in your library.
A great place to start when you’re not sure what you’ll find.
Custom queries
Looking to replicate previous analysis? Ready to dial in? Sift’s custom query builder lets you tailor your queries to your exact needs.
Time-normalize to event sequences. Refine based on signal characteristics. Get exactly the data you want.
Visualize data
Explore queried data with a range of plot types including:
- Signal vs. Time
- Bar Charts
- Box Plots
- Signal-Signal; and
- Scatter Plots
Refer back to animations and video
Connect your time series and metrics back to the underlying movement by animating files or opening the reference video.
Have full confidence in the data going into your analysis with tools for automated and manual quality assurance. Work directly on event-based traces, time-normalize and register to specific landmarks. Because when you trust the data going in, you can trust the results coming out.
Register Curves
Remove unwanted phase variance by registering signals on internal events or landmarks.
Exclude Data
Mark signals and metrics for exclusion from your analysis, without deleting them!
Make sure that your analysis is based on data you trust.
Anomaly Detection
Run automated anomaly detection routines to easily exclude data or flag trials for a closer look.
Analyse the whole signal, not just parts of it, with peer-reviewed methods. Treat your data like you collected it!
PCA
Find the key components that underpin your data’s variability with Principal Component Analysis. Reduce dimensionality and simplify your follow-on analysis.
SPM
Apply statistical significance testing directly to your waveforms with Statistical Parametric Mapping. Run one- or two-sample t-tests as well as ANOVA tests.
DTW
Identify outliers or most-similar traces with Dynamic Time Warping. Use signal-based distances to triage where you look first.
Scale your data analysis in step with your data collection with intelligent automations that take the busywork out of analysis and let you apply your judgment.
Batch Processing
Codify analyses so that the same steps can be applied to every batch you work with. Harmonize processing across projects, across labs, and across time.
Time-based triggers
Run the same analysis at the same time, every day. Make sure your results are ready when you are.
Directory Watchers
Have Sift watch directories of interest and immediately process motion capture data as it appears. Shorten the loop from collection to insight.
Learn more about Sift’s console application.
Big data takes you in a lot of different directions. Sift integrates with other tools in your workflow to make this easy.
Visual3D
Sift seamlessly partners with Visual3D, working with the same CMZ files and containing the Visual3D computational engine.
Take the fine detail of your Visual3D analyses and scale it.
Power1D
Continue your signal-based analysis via Sift’s easy drag-and-drop integration with Jiku’s Power1D software.
Power1D allows users to estimate the statistical power of experiments involving one-dimensional data.
Databricks
Easily bring in metadata from other sources and push your results into your warehouse with Sift’s integration with Databricks.
Text Exports
Simply export the results of your queries or analysis to one of many common text file formats for analysis in other applications:
- Visual3D ASCII
- SPSS ASCII
- P2D
- JSON
- XML
- CSV