Additions to KDnuggets in July

Big new list of government and public datasets/portals, new companies, education options, meetings, software, solutions, blogs

Date: Aug 01, 2013

New entries for companies, datasets, education, meetings, software, solutions, websites.

In Companies :: Cloud Analytics and SaaS

Bodais offers cloud data analysis and data mining, simple to control with each module composed of a single function.

In Companies :: Consulting

DAYCHE Data Mining Group, Training, Consulting and Project implementation. Tehran, Iran.

In Companies :: Products

Quantum Leap Innovations, a leader in the emerging area of Pattern-Based Analytics, offering Pattern-Based Discovery, Pattern-Based Prediction, and Pattern-Based Reasoning tools.

In Datasets :: Government and Public Data

Socrata OpenData, provides social data discovery services for opening government, healthcare, energy, education, or environment data.
Visualing Data big collection of sites and services for accessing data.
The World Bank, a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe.
UN data, a data access system to UN databases
UNICEF statistics, data analysis and other data about UNICEF work.
Berkeley-curated US statistical information, by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, providing a wealth of demographic and other data on a city, county, state and national level.
IL: Chicago data .
NY: New York NYC Open Dat
WA: Seattle data .
Eurostat, the leading provider of high quality statistics on Europe.
OECD Data Lab, data visualisations and European data downloads.
PublicData.eu, access to open, freely reusable datasets from local, regional and national public bodies across Europe.
Paris data.
Destatis: German Federal Statistics Bureau (Statistisches Bundesamt), all German government statistics.
Dublinked, Dublin data.
UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.
UK Data Service, UK largest collection of digital social research data from ESDS, Census Programme, Secure Data Service and others.
Census India, data on population, economic activity, literacy, education, housing, urbanisation, fertility, mortality, and more.
Data.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, access to the full range of ABS statistical and reference information.
Open Data for Africa, supporting statistical development in Africa as a sound basis for designing and managing effective development policies for reducing poverty on the continent.

In Datasets

Government, Federal, State, City, Local and public data sites and portals

In Education :: Asia

Singapore Management U. Master of IT in Business - Analytics (MITB-AT), Singapore.

In Education :: Australia

Bachelor of Business Analytics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

In Education :: Europe

Dublin City University (DCU) M.Sc. in Computing (MCM) with focus on Data Analytics.
De Montfort U. MSc in Business Intelligence Systems and Data Mining, Leicester, UK.

In Education :: Online and web-based

Berkeley MS in Data Science, begins 2014.

In Meetings

Oct 23-24, eMetrics, London, UK.
Nov 3-7, Business Analytics Forum at IBM Information On Demand 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Nov 18-20, Big Data World Show 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Dec 9-10, Data Marketing Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Dec 19-21, 19th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), Ahmedabad, India.
Jan 14-16, Oracle BIWA Summit, Oracle HQ, Redwood City, CA, USA.

In Software :: Libraries

ILNumerics, a numerical library for .NET that turns C# into a 1st class mathematical language, with a Matlab-like high-level syntax, high performance, and 2D/3D visualization features. Free Community Edition (GPL).

In Software :: Visualization