New in KDnuggets in November

Additions to KDnuggets in Companies, Meetings, Publications, Software sections

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In Companies » Bioinformatics

• DNAnexus, a cloud-based platform that enables sequencing centers and scientists to perform analyses, visualize results and manage next-generation DNA sequencing data - all from any web browser.

In Companies » Consulting

• Alpha Analysis Consulting, a research consulting firm that specializes in advanced statistical computing, data mining, predictive modeling, and data analysis services. Boston, MA.
• Symplexis, specializing in topic modeling and information extraction consulting.
• Massa & Company, what are you getting from your Google Analytics account? We will save you time and effort with our low-cost Google Analytics Optimization Package.

In Meetings

• Apr 4-7, SAS Global Forum, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• Apr 10-11, WKDD 2011: The 4th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Male, Maldives.
• Apr 11-15, CIFEr 2011: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics, Paris, France.
• June 28-30, ISMIS 2011: 19th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Warsaw, Poland.
• Jun 29-Jul 1, ICSDM 2011: 1st Int. Conf. on Spatial Data Mining and Geographical Knowledge Services, Fuzhou, China.
• July 11-15, ICC 2011, International Classification Conference 2011, St Andrews, Scotland.
• 29-31 Oct, IDA 2011, The Tenth Int. Symposium On Intelligent Data Analysis, Porto, Portugal.
• Mar 30, 2012 CIFEr: 2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics, New York, NY.

In Publications » Books, Professional

• Cristobal Romero, Sebastian Ventura, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Ryan S.J.d. Baker, Editors, Handbook of Educational Data Mining, Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series, ISBN 9781439804575, 2010.
• Schumaker, Robert P., Solieman, Osama K., Chen, Hsinchun, Sports Data Mining, ISBN: 978-1-4419-6729-9, Springer, 2010.

In Software » Statistics

• WINKS SDA Statistical Data Analysis and Graphs, a low-cost general purpose statistical software program designed for scientific and medical research and for statistical instruction.

In Software » Suites

• Mathematica solution for Data Analysis and Mining, from Wolfram.

In Software » Visualization

• XDAT: X-dimensional Data Analysis Tool, reads high-dimensional data in column-based format and uses parallel-coordinates to visualize and analyse all dimensions at once.