Additions to KDnuggets in Oct

In Companies » Cloud Analytics and SaaS

• Aster Data/Teradata provides a MapReduce Platform which combines MapReduce, the language of big data analytics, with SQL.

In Datasets » Competitions

• Web Search Click Data workshop and competition.
  Start: Oct 15, 2011; End: Dec 15, 2011.

In Datasets

• Robert Schiller data on housing, stock market, and more from his book Irrational Exuberance.

In Meetings

• Nov 16, SuperData Summit, San Diego, CA.
• Nov 22-23, Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Jan 26-27, 2012, Business Analytics Innovation Summit, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• Feb 22-24, WSEAS Int. Conf. on AI, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases (AIKED '12), Cambridge, UK,
• Feb 22-23, Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Apr 3-5, SPB12: Int. Conf. on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
• June 26 - July 1, ICML-2012, Edinburgh, UK.
• Sep, ECML PKDD 2012, Bristol, UK.

In Software » BI, Database and OLAP

• Invantive provides data warehousing, data warehouse development software and state of the art project management software.

In Software » Suites

• LIONsolver 2.0, Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN: modeling and optimization with "on the job learning" for business and engineering by Reactive Search SrL.

In Software » Web Content Mining, Screen scraping

• Scrapy, a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework in Python.

In Solutions » Health and Human Resources

• SmartCare®, a combined Business Intelligence and advanced analytical software system, designed as an enterprise-wide data analysis platform, combining a data warehouse with data mining, ad hoc query, report writer, statistical analysis, and 3-D graphics applications.

In Solutions » Web Mining, Web Analytics

• Web Mining Services, providing free, customized web extracts.

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

• CrowdANALYTIX blog, crowdsourcing better business insights.

In Websites » Data Mining Humor

• Lovestats collection of Statistics cartoons.

In Websites » Non-English

• Data Mining Cafe, blog de noticias e informacion general sobre el uso y el desarrollo de las tecnologias de Mineria de Datos y Descubrimiento del Conocimiento.