Additions to KDnuggets in February

In Companies » Consulting

• SolutionStat, offers expertise in statistics, data mining and provides training services related to quantitative analysis. Montreal, Canada.
• VyAnalytics, offers analytics services and software with a focus on predictive analysis, unstructured data, and real-time deployment. Charleston, SC, USA.

In Datasets

• KONECT, the Koblenz Network Collection, with large network datasets of all types in order to perform research in the area of network mining.

In Education » USA/Canada

• Stevens Institute of Technology Master of Science - Business Intelligence & Analytics, Hoboken NJ

In Meetings
Here B is for business-oriented meetings (a large majority), and R for research-oriented meetings (which have peer review).

• Apr 3, Data 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, CA. B
• Apr 18-19, Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit, London, UK. B
• Apr 20-21, CADM: Conferencia Annual de Data Mining, (in Spanish), Lima, Peru. R
• April 23-26, eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, Toronto, Canada. B
• Apr 25-26, Social Media & Web Analytics Innovation, San Francisco, CA, USA. B
• Apr 25-26, Big Data Innovation, San Francisco, CA, USA. B
• May 8, The Sentiment Analysis Symposium, New York, NY, USA. B
• Jun 4-5, Data Analysis Conference: Tools of the Trade, Atlantic City, NJ, USA. B
• Jun 14-15, Analytics 2012, Cologne, Germany. B
• June 24-27, eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, Chicago, IL, USA. B
• Jul 10-13, MMDS 2012: Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets, Stanford, CA, USA. R
• Sep 5, 2nd Global TechMining Conference: Analysis, and Visualization, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. R
• Sep 17-18, PAW: Predictive Analytics World for Government, Washington, DC. B
• Sept 30 - Oct 4, Predictive Analytics World East, Boston, MA, USA. B
• Oct 2-3, Text Analytics World, Boston, MA, USA. B
• Oct 29-31, The 15th International Conference on Discovery Science, Lyon, France. R.
• Oct 29-31, The 23rd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning, Lyon, France. R.
• Nov 6-7, Predictive Analytics World Germany, Dusseldorf, Germany. B
• Nov 27-28, Predictive Analytics World London, London, UK. B
• Dec 10-13, ICDM '12: The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Brussels, Belgium. R

In Publications » Books, Introductory / Textbooks

• Gary Miner, John Elder IV, Thomas Hill, Robert Nisbet, Dursun Delen, Andrew Fast, Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications, Academic Press, 2012.

In Software » Text Analysis, Text Mining and Information Retrieval

• VP Student Edition powerful text-mining and visualization tool for discovering knowledge in search results from science literature and other field-structured text databases.

In Software » Visualization

• Weave, a web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose.

In Software » Web Content Mining, Screen scraping

• WebSundew, a powerful web scraping and web data extraction tool that

In Solutions » Health and Human Resources

• Myne Health, a Boston-based healthcare technology startup for health-related modeling and management

In Websites » Statistics

• UCLA Statistical Computing resources