Additions to KDnuggets Directory since Jun 8

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.