Additions to KDnuggets Directory in April

New entries for companies, datasets, education, meetings, publications, software, and 12 new blogs.

In Companies :: Cloud Analytics and SaaS

• Predixion Softwareoffers easy to use Excel add-in and web tools for predictive analysis of Excel, PowerPivot or database data. Free developer edition!

In Companies :: Products

• Predixion Software, offers easy to use Excel add-in and web tools for predictive analysis of Excel, PowerPivot or database data. Free developer edition!

In Datasets

• GDELT: The Global Data on Events, Location and Tone, described by Guardian as "a big data history of life, the universe and everything."

In Education :: Certificates

• Cloudera Certified Professional (CCP): Data Scientist

In Education :: Europe

• Oxford Advanced Diploma in Data and Systems Analysis, Oxford, UK.

In Education :: USA/Canada

• Pace U. MS in Customer Intelligence Analytics, New York, NY and Westchester, NY.
• Texas A&M U. part-time MS in Analytics, focus on predictive modeling with some business training, open to working professionals with strong quantitative skills. On-campus and via live video stream. Houston, TX.

In Meetings

• Jul 16-18, FreeStructure, Exploration, Innovation, Collaboration and understanding the impact of Big Data and analysis on our world. San Francisco, CA.
• Sep 9-12, XLDB 2013, 7th Extremely Large Databases Conference, Stanford, CA, USA.
• Oct 20-23, The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'2013)Hefei, Anhui, China.
• Nov 5-8, 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL Int. Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013), Orlando, FL, USA.
• Nov 13-15, 11th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2013), Canberra, Australia.

In Publications :: Journals and magazines

• Journal Of Big Data, a SpringerOpen Journal.

In Software :: BI, Database and OLAP

• Predixion Insight, an easy to use Excel add-in for predictive analysis of Excel, PowerPivot or database data. Free developer edition!

In Software :: Suites

• PredictionIO, an open source machine learning server for software developers and data engineers to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery.

In Software :: Text Analysis, Text Mining and Information Retrieval

• Grammarcheck.net, a free online grammar check, for English.

e In Software :: Visualization

• Quadrigram, a platform for creating customized data visualizations, with a flexible visual language and many visualization templates.

In Websites :: Blogs and News on Data Mining and Data Science

• FastML, covering practical applications of machine learning and data science.
• Hilary Masonblog, from Bitly Chief Scientist, covering Data Science and Machine Learning on Big Data.
• Kaggle blog no free hunch, covering Kaggle data science and machine learning competitions
• Normal Deviateby Larry Wasserman, CMU Prof. of Statistics and Machine Learning
• R-bloggers , best blogs from the rich community of R, with code, examples, and visualizations
• Simply Statistics
• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Scienceby Andrew Gelman
• Three-Toed Slothby Cosma Shalizi.
• Vincent Granville blog. Vincent, a founder of AnalyticBridge,
• What's the Big Data, by Gil Press. Gil covers the Big Data space and also writes a column on Big Data and Business in Forbes.
• FiveThirtyEight Blogby Nate Silver, a very popular and non-technical blog covering analytics applied mainly to politics and sports.
• IA Ventures blog, by one of the leading Big Data venture capitalists Roger Roger Ehrenberg and his team