Additions to KDnuggets in January

In Companies » Consulting

• Fitzgerald Analytics, provides analytic consulting services.
• Mu Sigma, a leading provider of decision sciences and analytics services, helping companies institutionalize data-driven decision making. Chicago, USA, and Bangalore, India.
• Trinity Insight, eCommerce consulting & Optimization. Lansdale, PA.

In Companies » Products

• Spatialytics, focus on GeoBI, adding Spatial / Geospatial capabilities in the Open Source ETL Kettle and the OLAP Server Mondrian. Open Source projects available at www.spatialytics.org.
• TIBCO Spotfire S+, combining Spotfire visualization with S+ statistical language.

In Competitions

• KDD Cup 2011, Recommending Music Items based on the Yahoo! Music Dataset.
• Second Pascal Challenge on Large Scale Hierarchical Text classification,
• ISMIS 2011 Contest: Music Information Retrieval.
• Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, phase 1: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING, starts Jan 3, 2011.
• 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 Education »Online and web-based

• Northwestern University Online Master of Science in Predictive Analytics, skills for leadership in a growing Field.

In Education » USA/Canada

• Saint Joseph's University MS in Business Intelligence, for business professionals. Philadelphia, PA.

In Meetings

• Feb 24-25, Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Mar 4-5, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Boston, MA.
• Mar 25-27, The 2011 International Conference on Database and Data Mining (ICDDM 2011), Sanya, China.
• May 2-4, Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• May 18-19, 7th Annual Text Analytics Summit, Boston, MA, USA.
• Jun 15-17, Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany.
• Jul 17-22, IMMM 2011 : The First International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management, Bournemouth, UK.
• Aug 24-26, 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• Nov 14-16, ICDMKE 2011: International Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering, Mumbai, India.
• Dec 11-14, IEEE ICDM 2011 International Conference on Data Mining, Vancouver, Canada.

In Software » Estimation and Forecasting

• Gait-CAD Matlab toolbox, for the visualization and analysis of time series, including classification, regression, and clustering. GNU-GPL license.

In Software » Sequences and Time Series

• Gait-CAD Matlab toolbox, for the visualization and analysis of time series, including classification, regression, and clustering. GNU-GPL license.

In Software » Suites

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

In Solutions » CRM

• Customers DNA, a new company composed of experts in customer insight & CRM aiming to bridge the gap between technology and its applications in business.
• Dynamic CRM from Digital Alchemy.

In Solutions » Web Mining, Web Analytics

• Spring Metrics, Real Time e-commerce web analytics for marketers and SMBs, with point-and-click configuration. Stop Guessing. Start Knowing.

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

• Dataists, edited by Vince Buffalo and Hilary Mason.
• OK Cupid blog, original research and analysis of dating.
• Stats with Cats, .. for when you can't solve life's problems with statistics alone.
• The Change Advisor, explaining how many common data elements work - in simple terms.

In Websites » Societies for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

• IIBA, International Institute for Business Analysis, an independent non-profit professional association.