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In Companies » Consulting
- Fitzgerald Analytics, provides analytic consulting services.
- Mu Sigma, a leading provider of decision sciences and analytics services, helping companies institutionalize data-driven decision making. Chicago, USA, and Bangalore, India.
- Trinity Insight, eCommerce consulting & Optimization. Lansdale, PA.
In Companies » Products
- Spatialytics, focus on GeoBI, adding Spatial / Geospatial capabilities in the Open Source ETL Kettle and the OLAP Server Mondrian. Open Source projects available at www.spatialytics.org.
- TIBCO Spotfire S+, combining Spotfire visualization with S+ statistical language.
In Competitions
- KDD Cup 2011, Recommending Music Items based on the Yahoo! Music Dataset.
- Second Pascal Challenge on Large Scale Hierarchical Text classification,
- ISMIS 2011 Contest: Music Information Retrieval.
- Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, phase 1: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING, starts Jan 3, 2011.
- Heritage Health Data Analysis Prize ($3M), can administrative health care data be used to accurately predict which patients will be admitted to the hospital?
In Education »Online and web-based
- Northwestern University Online Master of Science in Predictive Analytics, skills for leadership in a growing Field.
In Education » USA/Canada
- Saint Joseph's University MS in Business Intelligence, for business professionals. Philadelphia, PA.
In Meetings
- Feb 24-25, Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit, San Diego, CA, USA.
- Mar 4-5, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Boston, MA.
- Mar 25-27, The 2011 International Conference on Database and Data Mining (ICDDM 2011), Sanya, China.
- May 2-4, Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- May 18-19, 7th Annual Text Analytics Summit, Boston, MA, USA.
- Jun 15-17, Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany.
- Jul 17-22, IMMM 2011 : The First International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management, Bournemouth, UK.
- Aug 24-26, 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- Nov 14-16, ICDMKE 2011: International Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering, Mumbai, India.
- Dec 11-14, IEEE ICDM 2011 International Conference on Data Mining, Vancouver, Canada.
In Software » Estimation and Forecasting
- Gait-CAD Matlab toolbox, for the visualization and analysis of time series, including classification, regression, and clustering. GNU-GPL license.
In Software » Sequences and Time Series
- Gait-CAD Matlab toolbox, for the visualization and analysis of time series, including classification, regression, and clustering. GNU-GPL license.
In Software » Suites
- Pentaho open-source BI suite, including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data integration, and data mining based on Weka.
In Solutions » CRM
- Customers DNA, a new company composed of experts in customer insight & CRM aiming to bridge the gap between technology and its applications in business.
- Dynamic CRM from Digital Alchemy.
In Solutions » Web Mining, Web Analytics
- Spring Metrics, Real Time e-commerce web analytics for marketers and SMBs, with point-and-click configuration. Stop Guessing. Start Knowing.
In Websites » Blogs and News on Data Mining, Web Mining and Analytics
- Dataists, edited by Vince Buffalo and Hilary Mason.
- OK Cupid blog, original research and analysis of dating.
- Stats with Cats, .. for when you can't solve life's problems with statistics alone.
- The Change Advisor, explaining how many common data elements work - in simple terms.
In Websites » Societies for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- IIBA, International Institute for Business Analysis, an independent non-profit professional association.