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Data Mining / Analytic News Briefs, Mar 2010

SeatGeek Predicts the Best Time to Buy Concert and Sports Tickets - Mar 31, 2010.
SeatGeek is a free, innovative search and forecasting web application that helps users save money on sports and concert tickets.
Aristotle Political Data-Mining Technology Cleared - Mar 29, 2010.
Federal Election Commission has voted to take no action on a complaint against Aristotle filed by competitor NGP Software that alleged the company was improperly using Federal Election Commission contributor data
Number of People Using Advanced Analytics - Mar 27, 2010.
If traditional BI is far from pervasive in the business world, then advanced analytics is a mere drop in the bucket.
IBM Unveils New Predictive Analytics Lab in China - Mar 26, 2010.
The new lab will serve as a global hub for analytics development for industries such as banking, telecommunications, power grid, railroads, health care and urban management
UK Ministry of Justice Chooses IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics - Mar 26, 2010.
Turns to Business Analytics to Analyse 4 Million Prisoner Records to Predict the Likelihood of Prisoners Re-Offending
San Francisco Data Mining Camp Impressions - Mar 25, 2010.
the unconference - with a new location and almost doubled attendance - was a success - even if judging only by results of twitter sentiment analysis tools
Google Analytics to allow users to opt out - Mar 23, 2010.
Google is developing a global browser based plug-in to allow users to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.
Former Yahoo execs launch nPario analytics agency - Mar 23, 2010.
The company wants to help clients better understand and market consumer commercial intent through optimal data management and data mining products and services.
Wendy's Selects Clarabridge Text Analytics for for Customer Feedback - Mar 22, 2010.
Wendy's Customer Feedback Program will use Clarabridge's solution to automatically collect and analyze, in real-time, close to 500,000 text-based customer comments per year
Pegasystems buys CRM vendor Chordiant - Mar 22, 2010.
Pegasystems plans to buy Chordiant adding CRM (customer relationship management) and analytics capabilities to its BPM (business process management)
Telligent Announces Enhancements to Analytics Software - Mar 22, 2010.
Telligent Analytics is a social analytics program to measure user engagement through several channels, including Web analytics layered over deep social analytics, identification of key users, and customizable conversation analysis.
Patent: Retail Data Mining Using Co-Occurrence Consistency - Mar 22, 2010.
The invention uses technologies from statistics, information theory, and graph theory to quantify and discover patterns in relationships between entities, such as products and customers, as evidenced by purchase behavior.
Saffron Technology Launches Saffron Natural Intelligence Platform Version 8.0 - Mar 22, 2010.
Enterprise-Scalable Associative Memory Store is First Streaming Data Analytics & Experience Management Solution for Business
Foursquare Analytics for Businesses - Mar 21, 2010.
Foursquare, a location-based social network, plans to distribute a free analytics tool and dashboard for businesses with info and statistics about their visitors
Turiya Media targets game publishers with behavioral data mining - Mar 21, 2010.
Turiya Media Leafnode product helps game publishers better retain and monetize their customers through mining and analyzing behavioral data.
Sports teams, leagues tap SAS� Analytics to boost profits - Mar 18, 2010.
San Francisco 49ers, MLB.com, Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Hurricanes sign SAS�
New Free Data Mining Tool for Game Developers - Mar 14, 2010.
Game developers have a new tool in their arsenal courtesy of Jenkin's Software, an instrumenting and data analysis suite called RakNet.
TIBCO rolls out Spotfire 3.1 with spotlight on predictive analytics - Mar 12, 2010.
Spotfire 3.1 allows any enterprise decision-maker to perform "what-if" scenarios on demand and find new insights in complex data
Jingwei International Preliminary Results for FY 2009 - Mar 9, 2010.
Net revenue for Q4 2009 is expected to increase about 50% from Q3 2009.
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Summary - Mar 8, 2010.
statistical analysis had become mainstream in the NBA.
Facebook Analytics War Heats Up - Mar 7, 2010.
a few days after WebTrends spurred excitement over its new Facebook tracking capabilities, competitors Omniture and Coremetrics have unveiled their own
Intrusion Inc. Debuts Savant, a New Class of Data Mining and Network Analysis Devices - Mar 6, 2010.
Savant encompasses all the traditional network performance monitoring, security surveillance and forensic analysis while adding truly unique functions
Clarabridge launches Self Service Text Analytics (Beta) - Mar 5, 2010.
Online classification, sentiment analysis, and root cause analysis of textual data now available for smaller organizations, market research firms and/or one-time analysis projects
IBM Energy Efficient Method For Fast Data Quality Analysis - Mar 4, 2010.
IBM Researchers Develop Energy Efficient Method to Analyze the Quality of Data at Record Speeds - Nine Terabytes of Data Validated in Less than 20 Minutes.
INFORMS Data Mining Student Paper Award - Mar 3, 2010.
The award is given to the best paper topic related to data mining by a student author, and presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin, TX Nov 7-10, 2010.
White House Reassures On Data Mining - Mar 2, 2010.
White House officials said a January memo aimed at encouraging information sharing and issued in response to the Christmas Day attempted bombing, should not be perceived as a revival of the controversial data-sifting program
Aristotle Files Patent on Political Data Mining Technology - Mar 2, 2010.
patent filed on "Integration of Voter and Contributor Data Into Political Software and Compliance Systems for Purposes of Solicitation, Compliance, Vetting and Calls to Action"
Warranty Fraud Detection - Mar 2, 2010.
SAS says send us your claims data and we'll show you the fraud. If upwards of 10% to 15% of claims are in some way suspect, such a system could pay for itself in just a few months. Does it sound too good to be true?