Date: Jun 29, 2010
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In Companies » Consulting
- SmartDrill Data Mining, offers a complete portfolio of data-driven decision support services, including marketing analytics, market research, operations research and decision science.
In Datasets » Competitions
- INFORMS Data Mining Contest, develop a model that predicts stock price movements at five minute intervals. Submission due: Oct 10, 2010.
- IEEE ICDM Contest, submissions due: Sep 6, 2010.
In Datasets
- Kevin Chai list of datasets, for text, SNA, and other fields.
- Wikiposit, a (virtual) amalgamation of (mostly financial) data from many different sites, allowing users to merge data from different sources
In Education » Certificates
- RMBA Business Analytics Competency test
- RMBA Research Management Competency test
- SAS Certificate Programs
In Education » USA/Canada
- DePaul University Center for Data Mining and Predictive Analytics, offering MS in Predictive Analytics, Chicago, IL.
In Meetings
- Apr 28-30, SDM 2011, Eleventh SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
- Jul 6-8, EDM 2011: Educational Data Mining, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
In Software » Estimation and Forecasting
- Autobox, automatically Builds Box-Jenkins models for Univariate and Causals models adjusting for lead/lag relationships and interventions - pulse, seasonal pulses, level shifts, time trends.
In Solutions » CRM
- coAction, provides an on demand business collaboration service as a platform for rich business applications called coApps, with Sales, Customer Service, Finance and other applications.