Additions to KDnuggets Directory in September

New Companies, Datasets, Education, Meetings, Software, Blogs

New entries for companies, datasets, education, faq, meetings, software, solutions, websites.

In Companies » Consulting

bitsnbrains, provides data mining, information retrieval, machine learning, forecasting and linguistics services. Valencia, Spain.
KCM Solutions, one of Canada's most reliable providers of IBM Cognos Business Analytics. Contact us to try it for free in your environment! Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Data Source Handbook, A Guide to Public Data, by Pete Warden, O'Reilly (Jan 2011).
DataMarket, visualize the world's economy, societies, nature, and industries, with 100 million time series from UN, World Bank, Eurostat and other important data providers.
EconData, thousands of economic time series, produced by a number of US Government agencies.
GeoDa Center, geographical and spatial data.
Hilary Mason research-quality Big Data sets collection - many text and image datasets.
Peter Skomoroch dataset Bookmarks
Time Series Data Library

In Education » USA/Canada

Centennial College, offering Marketing - Research and Analytics Graduate Certificate program, in collaboration with SAS. Ontario, Canada.
Databases, Data Mining, and Computational Biology at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

Oct 14-16, Data Without Borders Datadive, New York, NY.
Nov 4-6, Data Without Borders Datadive, San Francisco, CA.
Nov 8-10, Big Data Summit, Miami, FL.
Nov 10-11, Marketing Analytics Boston 2011, a Henry Stewart Conference, Boston, MA, USA.
Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2012 O'Reilly Strata Conference, Making Data Work. Santa Clara, CA.
Mar 5-7, 2012 Predictive Analytics World, San Francisco, CA (March 4-10, including workshops).
Mar 5-7, 2012 Text Analytics World, San Francisco, CA.
Apr 25-26, 2012 Predictive Analytics World, Toronto, Canada.
June 26-27, 2012 Predictive Analytics World, Chicago, IL.
Aug 12-16, 2012 KDD 2012, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Beijing, China.