Additions to KDnuggets in February

In Companies » Consulting

• eKPI solutions, offers courses and guidance on exploratory data analysis, correlation, linear regression, hypothesis testing, statistical software, and Six Sigma.

In Datasets

• Causality Workbench data repository.
• Datamob, public data put to good use.
• ML Data, the data repository of the EU Pascal2 networks.
• StatLib, CMU Datasets Archive.

In Education » Online and web-based

• SJU: Saint Joseph's University Online Master's Degree in Business Intelligence,

In Meetings

• Apr 10-12, INFORMS Conf. on Business Analytics and Operations Research, Chicago, IL, USA.
• Jun 7-11, RapidMiner Community Meeting and Conference (RCOMM 2011), Dublin, Ireland.
• July 18-21, The 2011 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'11), Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• Oct 5-7, DS 2011: The 14th Int. Conf. on Discovery Science, Espoo, Finland.
• Oct ??, RecSys 2011: 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Chicago, IL, USA.
• Oct 20-21, CIDU 2011: The NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding, Mountain View, CA, USA.
• Oct 26-29, IC3K - 3rd International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Paris, France. Includes 3 co-located conferences:
  • KDIR: Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
  • KEOD: Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
  • KMIS: Int. Conf. on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing

In Publications » Journals and magazines

• Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and KNowledge Discovery (WIDM), features a unique hybrid publishing model that's as comprehensive as a major reference, as current as a journal, and much more.

In Software » Social network analysis, Link analysis, Visualization

• Xanalys Link Explorer, provides powerful network analysis tools including link chart and timeline analysis, Bing mapping and Excel integration.

In Software » Visualization

• Office Advizor, interactive data visualization software for individual analysis.

In Software » Web Content Mining, Screen scraping

• Pattern, a web mining module for Python; bundles tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, tf-idf, ...) and data visualization (graph networks).

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

• Office Advizor blog, covering tools for individual data analysis and visualization.
• SAS Analysis, a weekly technical blog about data analysis in SAS.