Additions to KDnuggets in March

In Companies » Consulting

• Faunus Analytics, a research consulting company that specializes in advanced analytics, business intelligence and financial markets forecasting. Moscow, Russia.

In Companies » Products

• Reactive Search S.r.l., the Learning and Intelligent Optimization Company, developers of Grapheur data mining and interactive visualization tool.

In Datasets » Datasets

• Canada Open Data, pilot project with many government and geospatial datasets.

In Education » Online and web-based

• OpenClassroom Machine Learning Course, by Andrew Ng.
• Statsoft Electronic Statistics Textbook, freely available.

In Education » USA/Canada

• U. of California Santa Cruz graduate level data mining course, offered for professionals and graduate students at two locations: UCSC Silicon Valley Center and Santa Cruz.

In Meetings » Meetings

• May 16-20, The KXEN Americas & Asia-Pacific User Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.
• Jun 7-11, RapidMiner Community Meeting and Conference (RCOMM 2011), Dublin, Ireland.
• July 24-26, IADIS European Conference On Data Mining 2011, Rome, Italy.
• Nov 14, The 2011 Business Analytics Summit, organized by Aberdeen Group, Boston, MA, USA.

In Publications » Books, Professional

• Aggarwal, Charu C. (Ed.), Social Network Data Analytics, Springer 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4419-8461-6.
• Giovanni Seni, John F. Elder, Ensemble Methods in Data Mining: Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions, Morgan & Claypool, 2010, 126 pages.

In Publications » Overviews

• Data mining tools, by Ralf Mikut, Markus Reischl, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2011

In Software » SVM (Support Vector Machines)

• e1071 R package, including support vector machines, clustering, and Naive Bayes classifier.

In Software » Statistics

• Blaze Statistics a small but highly useful statistical app, focused on simple and common tasks such as creating histograms, generating descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing.

In Software » Suites

• JMP, offers significant visualization and data mining capabilities along with classical statistical analyses.
• ELKI: Environment for DeveLoping KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures, a framework in Java which includes clustering, outlier detection, and other algorithms; allows user to evaluate the combination of arbitrary algorithms, data types, and distance functions.

In Software » Visualization

• JMP, offers significant visualization and data mining capabilities along with classical statistical analyses.