Societies and Groups for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and Related Areas

See other relevant societies below.

• American Statistical Association.
• DMG, an independent, vendor led group which develops data mining standards, such as the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML).
• Data Mining Section of INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
• ICDM, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining page.
• IMLS, The International Machine Learning Society, coordinates annual International Machine Learning Conferences.
• International Institute for Analytics, dedicated to the advancement of analytics in everyday business practices.
• IIBA, International Institute for Business Analysis, an independent non-profit professional association.
• KDNet -- European Knowledge Discovery Network of Excellence
• National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
• SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG, organizing meetings, talks, and providing networking opportunities for people interested in knowledge discovery, data mining and data engineering.
• SIGKDD, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining, the leading professional society in the field, with annual KDD Conference, Explorations magazine, and other activities.
• SIGMOD, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data.
• Web Analytics Association (WAA), promotes Web analytics education, advocacy, research, standards and communication.