Additions to KDnuggets in December

New entries for companies, datasets, education, meetings, and software.

In Companies :: Cloud Analytics and SaaS

• MicroStrategy Analytics Express, Software-as-a-Service meets world-class business analytics. Free for one year.

In Companies :: Products

• MicroStrategy Data Mining Services, a fully integrated component of the MicroStrategy BI platform that delivers the results of predictive models to all users in familiar, highly formatted, and interactive reports and documents. Also deploy any R Analytic in MicroStrategy Visualizations with the New R Integration Pack.
• Skytree, The Machine Learning Company®, offering a platform that gives organizations the power to discover deep analytic insights, predict future trends, make recommendations and reveal untapped markets and customers.

In Education :: Australia

• UniSA: Graduate Certificate in Data Science LCDS, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.

In Education :: USA/Canada

• U. of of the Fraser Valley, Data Analysis Post-Degree Certificate, a one-year program which gives students the skills to manage real-world data, and the statistical techniques to analyze it, and present the information effectively to decision makers. East of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

In Meetings

• Feb 12-14, KNIME User Group Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Mar 6, Sentiment Analysis Symposium and Human Analytics Workshops, New York, NY, USA.
• Mar 19-20, GigaOM Structure Data, New York, NY, USA.
• May 27-31, The Second IEEE/ASE International Conference on Big Data Science and Computing, Stanford, CA, USA.
• Jun 17-18, Predictive Analytics World Manufacturing 1st Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.
• Aug 24-28, DATA ANALYTICS 2014, The Third International Conference on Data Analytics, Rome, Italy.
• Oct 30 - Nov 1, The Thirteenth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2014), Leuven, Belgium.

In Software :: BI, Database and OLAP

• MicroStrategy Analytics Express, Software-as-a-Service meets world-class business analytics. Free for one year.
• MicroStrategy Analytics Enterprise elegantly combines the ease-of-use of self-service visual data discovery with the security, scalability, and governance features of production-grade business intelligence.
• Ubiq Analytics, a web application to easily analyze and report MySQL data, works on local MySQL, remote machine or cloud services like AWS.