Additions to KDnuggets Directory in August

Date: Sep 01, 2013

In Datasets

• Data APIs, Hubs, Marketplaces, Platforms, Portals, and Search Engines.
• BigML big list of public data sources.

In Datasets :: APIs, Marketplaces, and Platforms

• AggData, aggregate data in 15+ categories, with a focus on location data, like Starbucks locations.
• BigML Azure Data Marketplace widget
• CKAN, the world leading open-source data portal platform, aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organizations) wanting to make their data open and available.
• DataHub.io, free data management platform from the Open Knowledge Foundation: publish, search, and get updates about data.
• DataProvider, crawls the web to create a database of information about companies.
• Exversion, search 100K+ datasets, consume them through one simple API or upload your own data to collaborate, publish, or share.
• Factual location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences.
• Figshare, a platform for researchers: figures, datasets, media, papers, and presentations can be published in a citable, searchable, and shareable way.
• Freebase, a community-curated database of well-known people, places, and things.
• Knoema, provides statistical profiles, commodity prices, and other data for countries around the world.
• Marinexplore.org, a platform to explore, discover, and share public ocean data.
• OpenDataSoft, a cloud-based platform for seamless and unlimited data re-use.
• OSDC: Open Science Data Cloud Repository, for very large public data sets of scientific interest.
• Zanran, search the web for data and statistics.
• Big Data Startups Public Data platforms.
• BigML Data Marketplaces and Data Hubs bundle and

In Datasets :: Government and Public Data

• datamob, Public data put to good use.
• Freebase, a community-curated database of well-known people, places, and things.
• Knoema World Data Atlas, over 1000 indicators on all countries
• Open Data Institute, catalysing the evolution of open data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value.
• Data Publica, l'annuaire des donnees en France, public data about France.
• Moscow open data (beta), Moscow.
• Perm Open Data Portal (in Russian), Perm.
• Wiki New Zealand, a collaborative website making data about New Zealand accessible for everyone.

In Education :: Certificates

• Columbia Certification of Professional Achievement in Data Sciences, 4 courses, on campus, New York, NY.

In Education :: Online and web-based

• U. Waikato Online course: Data Mining with Weka, 5 week course, starting Sep 9 2013.

In Education :: USA/Canada

• Catholic U. of America MS in Business Analysis for Non-Business Majors, Washington, DC.
• Columbia MS in Information and Knowledge Strategy, New York, NY.
• Cornell Master of Engineering, Data Analytics Concentration, on-campus, Ithaca, NY.
• Virginia Commonwealth University MS in Business, Decision Analytics, provides students with knowledge of quantitative skills and experience in analyzing problems arising in a business environment. On-campus weeknight class meetings in Richmond, VA.
• U. of Iowa, Tippie college of Business BA in Business Analytics and Information Systems, Iowa City, IA.
• American Sentinel U. Master of Health Care Informatics Program, Aurora, CO.

In Meetings

• Sep 2-5, Symposium on Relational Data Analysis, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
• Sep 5-6, Wolfram Data Summit, Washington, DC, USA.
• Sep 9, Second Swiss Association for Analytics Event, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Sep 11-12, Sports Analytics Innovation Summit, Boston, MA, USA.
• Sep 15-17, TDWI Solution Summit: Big Data Analytics, Austin, TX, USA.
• Sep 17-19, Business Analytics Strategies Summit, Orlando, FL, USA.
• Sep 22-24, Big Data Exchange, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• Sep 23-24, Big Data Minds 2013, Berlin, Germany.
• Sep 25-26, ISC Big Data 2013, where Enterprise and HPC meet, Heidelberg, Germany.
• Oct 28-29, Big Data World, is about big data usage, management, analytics, protection and storage for all US enterprises. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• Nov 7, BDA: Big Data Analytics, London, UK.
• Dec 3-4, Text Analytics Summit West, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Mar 21-23, iKDD Conference on Data Science, India.
• May 13-16, PAKDD-2014: The 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Taiwan.

In Software :: BI, Database and OLAP

• Logi Analytics offers low-cost web-based BI and analytic applications that can be embedded and integrated.

In Software :: Data Transformation, Data Cleaning

• OpenRefine (ex-Google Refine), a powerful tool for working with messy data, cleaning it, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.

In Software :: Social network analysis, Link analysis, Visualization

• Idiro SNA Plus, social network analysis platform, supports Hadoop and Big Data.

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

• IKANOW Infinit.e, all-in-one big data analytics solution for harvesting and analyzing both structured and unstructured data, including social media data from Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
• IKANOW Infinit.e open source Community Edition, a scalable framework for collecting, storing, processing, retrieving, analyzing, and visualizing unstructured documents and structured records.

In Software :: Visualization

• The Guardian list of Data visualisation top tools, March 2012.

In Solutions :: Risk Analysis and Credit Scoring

• Big Data Scoring, successfully created the first credit scoring model based on Facebook data.
• Brinqa, a provider of an integrated risk analytics platform, for minimizing enterprise risk, meeting regulatory mandates and increasing the operational efficiency.

In Solutions :: Stock Analysis

• Oxford Capital Strategies, develops systematic strategies for futures, equities, ETFs, and cash markets and provides tools for financial forecasting.
• Social Market Analytics, extracts signal from Twitter noise and uses Twitter sentiment for trading.