Additions to KDnuggets in December

New datasets (OpenData), education (certificates), meetings, software (Text, Web Mining), solutions (Music discovery, Security, Sports)

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New entries for companies, datasets, education, meetings, publications, software, solutions.

In Datasets

• OpenData from Socrata, access to over 10,000 datasets including business, education, government, and fun.
• Yahoo Sandbox datasets, Language, Graph, Ratings, Advertising and Marketing, Competition

In Education » Certificates

• EMC Data Science and Big Data Analytics open curriculum-based Education and Certification.
• UCSD Data Mining certificate program, San Diego, CA.

In Education » USA/Canada

• Northwestern University Master of Science in Analytics, Evanston, IL.
• UCSD Data Mining certificate program, San Diego, CA.

In Meetings

• Apr 3, Data 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Apr 2-4, Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• Apr 17-18, Social Media Analytics Summit, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• July 16-19, The 2012 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'12), Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• Sep 19-20, Big Data World Europe, London, UK.
• Sep 23-28, Data Analytics 2012, Barcelona, Spain.

In Software » Text Analysis, Text Mining and Information Retrieval

• Clustify, groups related documents into clusters, providing an overview of the document set and aiding with categorization.

In Software » Web Content Mining, Screen scraping

• Trapit, system for personalizing content based on keywords, URLs and reading habits.

In Software » Web Mining and Web Usage Mining

• A1WebStats, see individual details about each website visitor, including company names, keywords, referrers, and a lot more. Free trial for 30 days.

In Solutions » Fraud Detection

• CPA Detective offers a sophisticated real-time fraud detection solution that evaluates the digital forensics of each visitor and returns the probability of fraud before buying, selling, or fulfilling on a lead or sale.

In Solutions

• Music Discovery and Music Data Mining.
• Security and Intelligence solutions.

In Solutions » Misic Data Mining and Discovery

• seevl.net, discover music you will love on Youtube.

In Solutions » Security and Intelligence

• QinetiQ Knowledge Discovery Appliance, provides timely intelligence by real-time processing of high volumes of data using an iterative learning engine that evaluates context based on attributes and associations to determine relevancy and value of data.

In Solutions » Sports and Entertainment

• Powerrank ranks teams and forecasts the outcome of future games based on academic research in statistical physics.