Additions to KDnuggets Directory in July

In Companies » Bioinformatics

• NEBION, develops Genevestigator, an online platform allowing scientists to mine, visualize, discover or validate target genes across thousands of manually curated public microarray and RNAseq experiments.

In Companies » Cloud Analytics and SaaS

• bime, offering browser-based data mining and data visualization tools.

In Companies » Consulting

• Business Data Miners improves bottom line by building highly effective data-driven models and rules to mitigate credit risk and fraud losses. The company has saved clients over $100 million in the past 2 years.

In Education » Certificates

• Villanova, offering CPBI (Certified Professional in Business Intelligence) via an online program.

In Education » USA/Canada

• York University Schulich School of Business MSc in Business Analysis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In Meetings

• Aug 28-29, Big Data Europe Zurich, Switzerland. B
• Oct 9-10, Big Data Europe Vienna, Austria. B
• Oct 14-19, VisWeek, the premier forum for advances in scientific and information visualization. Seattle, WA, USA. R
• Oct 30, Sentiment Analysis Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA. B
• Nov 6-7, Big Data Europe Paris, France. B
• Mar 20-21, 2013 PAW: Predictive Analytics World, Toronto, Canada. B
• Apr 15-16, 2013 PAW: Predictive Analytics World, San Francisco, CA, USA. B
• Apr 17-18, 2013 TAW: Text Analytics World, San Francisco, CA, USA. B

In Publications » Newsletters

• Data Informed, making Big Data and Analytics work for you.

In Software » Multiple Approaches

• ML-Flex, an open-source software package designed to enable flexible and efficient processing of disparate data sets for machine-learning (classification).

In Software » Suites

• ML-Flex, an open-source software package designed to enable flexible and efficient processing of disparate data sets for machine-learning (classification).

In Software » Web Content Mining, Screen scraping

• Ficstar, customized web extraction, automated data management, and business intelligence.

In Solutions

• Education, using predictive analytics and data mining to improve learning

In Solutions » Bioinformatics

• Genevestigator from NEBION, an online platform allowing scientists to mine, visualize, discover or validate target genes across thousands of manually curated public microarray and RNAseq experiments.

In Solutions » Fraud Detection

• Business Data Miners builds highly effective data-driven models and rules to mitigate credit risk and fraud losses; saved its clients over $100 million in the past 2 years.

In Solutions » Risk Analysis and Credit Scoring

• Scorto Corp., a provider of decision management/analytics, and risk mitigation solutions and services; included into FinTech 100 ranking of the top global technology providers to the financial services industry in 2011.

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

• Deep Data Mining Blog, mostly focused on technical aspect of data mining, by Jay Zhou.
• StatsBlog, a blog aggregator focused on statistics-related content, and syndicates posts from contributing blogs via RSS feeds.