Patent ID: 7424481

Claim:
A computer system for performing statistical modeling using transactional data from retail sales, comprising: a data organizer coupled for receiving a primary set of transactional data from retail sales, the primary set of transactional data including a plurality of line items for each item of a plurality of retail transactions, each line item including a store number, product number, time of transaction, transaction number, quantity, current price, and customer number, wherein the data organizer parses the primary set of transactional data into predefined sets of data components according to processing requirements of a plurality of statistical models, each of the predefined sets of data components containing data for executing one of the plurality of statistical models; a plurality of data sources coupled to an output of the data organizer, wherein each of the plurality of data sources stores at least one of the predefined sets of data components from the data organizer in a binary file structure, the predefined sets of data components including a data component having a hierarchical data structure; a plurality of data processing systems each executing at least one of the plurality of statistical models, each of the plurality of statistical models using a single one of the predefined sets of data components to perform statistical modeling; and a plurality of communication channels respectively coupled between the plurality of data sources and the plurality of data processing systems, each of the communication channels for routing one of the predefined sets of data components to the data processing system which executes the corresponding statistical model, wherein each of the predefined sets of data components includes only data which is used by the corresponding one of the plurality of statistical models.