Below are latest courses and events news, published in February 2013.
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• Statistics.com Certificate and online Courses in Analytics, Data Mining, and more - Feb 27, 2013.
  The Certificate Program in Data Analytics at Statistics.com, and upcoming online courses for analytics and data professionals, incluing predictive modeling, R, forecasting, NLP, Visualization, and more.
• On-Demand Webcast: Analytically Speaking, WildTrack and Duke University - Feb 27, 2013.
  See how WildTrack is monitoring endangered species via cutting-edge data analysis techniques, and learn how to better visualize medical, forensic or any other type of imaging data.
• On-demand Webinar: Unstructured Data for Accurate Customer Insight - Feb 26, 2013.
  Learn how to optimize profitability ensuring lifetime 1-to-1 customer relationships, best practices for presenting data, and new technologies for fast and accurate big data analysis.
• Analytics: Putting It All to Work, Live web class - Feb 26, 2013.
  Learn how to optimally prepare and enrich data, predict and describe customer behavior, and use social network data and analytics to create real business value from your data. Next live web class is March 19-20.
• PAW: Predictive Analytics World San Francisco Early Bird expires Mar 1 - Feb 25, 2013.
  Predictive Analytics World San Francisco (April 14-19, 2013) is the leading predictive analytics event, packed with experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders. See what your peers are saying, but hurry - early bird rates expires March 1.
• TMA Courses in Data Analytics [Apr: Las Vegas, May: Washington, DC] - Feb 25, 2013.
  Get up to speed in data mining faster and more effectively than with any other training program available. Next courses in Las Vegas and Washington, DC.
• Webinar: Data Mining: Failure to Launch [Mar 20] - Feb 25, 2013.
  Learn how to get started with predictive modeling and overcome strategic and tactical limitations that cause data mining projects to fall short of their potential.
• PAW San Francisco 2013 Features Speakers from Leading Companies - Feb 19, 2013.
  Predictive Analytics World is returning to San Francisco, April 14-19, 2013. This year's agenda is packed with sessions by industry luminaries from top performing companies. Early bird rate until Feb 22 and special KDnuggets discount!
• Free, Upcoming online courses: Data Analysis, R, Statistics, Machine Learning, Analytics - Feb 19, 2013.
  Upcoming and on-demand free online courses and education in Analytics, Machine Learning, Statistics, R, and Python, from Coursera, edX, Udacity and other sources.
• PASS Business Analytics Conference, Chicago, April 10-12 - Feb 14, 2013.
  Passionate about the power of data to transform business? Attend PASS Business Analytics Conference and immerse yourself in the world of data-driven insights with over 60 sessions by top Microsoft and industry experts. Special KDnuggets offer.
• SLDM Statistical Learning and Data Mining III, Palo Alto, Mar 14-15 - Feb 13, 2013.
  This two-day course, taught by top Stanford professors and leading statisticians Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani, presents 10 hot ideas for learning from data, and gives a detailed overview of statistical models for data mining, inference and prediction.
• PAW San Francisco 2013 Features Speakers from Leading Companies - Feb 12, 2013.
  Predictive Analytics World is returning to San Francisco, April 14-19, 2013. This year's agenda is packed with sessions by industry luminaries from top performing companies. Early bird rate until Feb 22 and special KDnuggets discount!
• FREE VIDEO COURSE: Accounts Receivable Recovery and Collections Analytics - Feb 12, 2013.
  Enroll in the Accounts Receivable Recovery and Collections Analytics 4-part video course and learn how to use collections analytics to improve your A/R recovery.
• On-Demand Webcast: Analytically Speaking featuring John Sall - Feb 12, 2013.
  SAS co-founder and executive VP John Sall talks about the discipline of statistics as a framework for uncovering phenomena, on the joy of discovery, and the impact of statistics on our lives.
• Discover the power of business analytics - Feb 11, 2013.
  The SAS Business Knowledge Series offer courses for all levels of data miners and data scientists, where you can learn advanced processes and state-of-the-art techniques from top experts. Spring classes are filling quickly; register today!
• Sentiment Analysis Symposium, New York, May 8, 2013 - Feb 6, 2013.
  Attend the premier event covering social media and social intelligence for customer experience, finance, healthcare, market research, and media applications. Special discount for KDnuggets subscribers.
• PAW: Predictive Analytics World Toronto, March 18-21, 2013 - Feb 6, 2013.
  Predictive Analytics World offers an unparalleled perspective on analytics, with 4 days of 20+ sessions, intensive workshops and extensive networking events for predictive analytics practitioners at every level of expertise. Special KDnuggets discount.
• Salford: The Evolution of Regression: Hands-on Webinar Series, Mar 1, 15, 29, Apr 12 - Feb 6, 2013.
  Regression is one of the most popular modeling methods, but the classical approach has significant problems. This free webinar series will cover improvements to conventional and logistic regression, including modern ensemble and data mining approaches, and will be of value to any classically trained statistician or modeler.
• KDD-2013 Call for Papers - Feb 5, 2013.
  KDD-2013, 19th ACM SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference, is the premier conference on data mining and data science. KDD is a dual track conference hosting both a research track and an industrial/government track. Abstracts due Feb 15.
• SFBayACM Course: Practical Data Visualization with R Mar 9, San Jose, CA - Feb 5, 2013.
  This day-long workshop will provide practical review of R major graphing capabilities, including base graphics and new lattice and ggplot2 packages. The speaker is a leading researcher and practioner, author of "R in Action" book.
• Big Data TechCon, Boston, Apr 8-10, Boston - Feb 4, 2013.
  Attend Big Data TechCon, April 8-10 in Boston, the HOW-TO conference for Big Data. Practical tutorials. Technical classes. Special KDnuggets discount. Early reg by Feb 22.
• Hadoop Innovation Summit, Feb 20-21, San Diego Top Companies, KDnuggets discount - Feb 1, 2013.
  The Hadoop Innovation Summit, February 20-21 in San Diego is the ideal platform to share challenges and best practices with engineers and executives from top companies and pioneering Hadoop technologies. Exclusive offer for KDnuggets subscribers.