Additions to KDnuggets in July

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

• KeyLines, a lightweight JavaScript toolkit for network visualization using HTML5, compatible with all browsers.

In Software :: Web Content Mining, Screen Scraping

• TheWebMiner, for extracting structured data and custom web scraping services in cloud.

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

• Tatvic blog, coverting web analytics, R, Google analytics, and related topics.