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In Companies » Consulting
- Faunus Analytics, a research consulting company that specializes in advanced analytics, business intelligence and financial markets forecasting. Moscow, Russia.
In Companies » Products
- Reactive Search S.r.l., the Learning and Intelligent Optimization Company, developers of Grapheur data mining and interactive visualization tool.
In Datasets » Datasets
- Canada Open Data, pilot project with many government and geospatial datasets.
In Education » Online and web-based
- OpenClassroom Machine Learning Course, by Andrew Ng.
- Statsoft Electronic Statistics Textbook, freely available.
In Education » USA/Canada
- U. of California Santa Cruz graduate level data mining course, offered for professionals and graduate students at two locations: UCSC Silicon Valley Center and Santa Cruz.
In Meetings » Meetings
- May 16-20, The KXEN Americas & Asia-Pacific User Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Jun 7-11, RapidMiner Community Meeting and Conference (RCOMM 2011), Dublin, Ireland.
- July 24-26, IADIS European Conference On Data Mining 2011, Rome, Italy.
- Nov 14, The 2011 Business Analytics Summit, organized by Aberdeen Group, Boston, MA, USA.
In Publications » Books, Professional
- Aggarwal, Charu C. (Ed.), Social Network Data Analytics, Springer 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4419-8461-6.
- Giovanni Seni, John F. Elder, Ensemble Methods in Data Mining: Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions, Morgan & Claypool, 2010, 126 pages.
In Publications » Overviews
- Data mining tools, by Ralf Mikut, Markus Reischl, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2011
In Software » SVM (Support Vector Machines)
- e1071 R package, including support vector machines, clustering, and Naive Bayes classifier.
In Software » Statistics
- Blaze Statistics a small but highly useful statistical app, focused on simple and common tasks such as creating histograms, generating descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing.
In Software » Suites
- JMP, offers significant visualization and data mining capabilities along with classical statistical analyses.
- ELKI: Environment for DeveLoping KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures, a framework in Java which includes clustering, outlier detection, and other algorithms; allows user to evaluate the combination of arbitrary algorithms, data types, and distance functions.
In Software » Visualization
- JMP, offers significant visualization and data mining capabilities along with classical statistical analyses.