Additions to KDnuggets Directory in August
New big lists of Data APIs, Hubs, Marketplaces; Government and Public Data sources; New education options, Big data meetings, Analytics software, and Data mining solutions.
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.