Additions to KDnuggets Directory in December

Additions to KDnuggets in Blogs, Companies, Competitions, Datasets, Meetings, Publications, Software, and Websites sections

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Additions to KDnuggets in Blogs, Companies, Competitions, Datasets, Meetings, Publications, Software, and Websites sections.

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In Companies » Consulting

• Thesys Group, of five companies specializes in data collection, data mining and analysis, simulation, GEO information analysis and IT. Hungary.

In Competitions

• Heritage Health Data Analysis Prize ($3M), can administrative health care data be used to accurately predict which patients will be admitted to the hospital?

In Datasets

• Google ngrams datasets, text from millions of books scanned by Google.

In Meetings

• Mar 25-27, The 2011 International Conference on Database and Data Mining (ICDDM 2011), Sanya, China.
• Apr 12, 2011 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, New York, NY, USA.
• Dec 16-18, ADMA 2011: 7th Int. Conf. on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, Beijing, China.

In Publications » Journals and magazines

• Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, tri-monthly, ISSN: 2229-6662 , 2229-6670,
• Predictive Modeling News, the montly newsletter for healthcare professionals involved with predictive modeling.

In Software » BI, Database and OLAP

• Pentaho open-source BI suite, including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data integration, and data mining.

In Software » Clustering and Segmentation

• NeuroXL Clusterizer, a fast, powerful and easy-to-use neural network software tool for cluster analysis in Microsoft Excel.

In Software » Estimation and Forecasting

• Thesys Plan@, a web-based solution for forecasting the different level of sales for all of the products, useful for stock optimization or planning processes.

In Software » Suites

• Pentaho open-source BI suite, including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data integration, and data mining based on Weka.

In Software » Text Analysis, Text Mining and Information Retrieval

• DiscoverText, a powerful and easy-to-use set of text analytic solutions for eDiscovery and research.
• Odin Text, actionable DIY Text Analytics, with a focus on market research.
• Texifter, streamlines the process of sorting large amounts of unstructured textm with The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT), DiscoverText and Sifter, off-the-shelf, enterprise-class business process applications.

In Blogs and News on Data Mining, Web Mining and Analytics

• Oracle Data Mining Blog, Everything about Oracle Data Mining - News, Technical Information, Opinions, Tips & Tricks. All in One Place.
• Stats with Cats, .. for when you can't solve life's problems with statistics alone.

In Websites » Business Analytics

• International Institute for Analytics, dedicated to the advancement of analytics in everyday business practices.

In Websites » Societies for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

• International Institute for Analytics, dedicated to the advancement of analytics in everyday business practices.