Additions to KDnuggets Directory in June

By Gregory Piatetsky, @kdnuggets, Jul 1, 2014.

New entries for June below are in addition to time-sensitive content constantly updated in these KDnuggets sections:

• Academic/Research Positions
• CFP: Calls for Papers
• Courses
• Jobs
• Webcasts and Webinars.

 
Added to Bioinformatics Companies

• KNIME.com, open source data analytics platform, offers extensions from the community and technology partners for high throughput and high content screening data analysis.

 
Added to Data: APIs, Hubs, Marketplaces, and Platforms

• Mode Analytics, a collaborative, easy-to-use platform for working with data, SQL code, visualizations, and results.

 
Added to Data: Government, State, City, Local and Public

• Open Government Data (OGD) Platform, India.

 
Added to Certificates and Certification in Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science

• Digital Analytics Association Web Analyst Certification Program(tm)
• EMC Data Scientist Associate (EMCDSA) Certification.
• Revolution R Enterprise Certified Specialist
• TDWI Certified Business Intelligence Professional
• ISB Certificate Programme in Business Analytics, Hyderabad, India.

 
Added to Education in Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science in Asia

• The Chinese University of Hong Kong MS in Data Science and Business Statistics, a two-year part-time program which focuses on data analysis skills and explores core areas of applied and business statistics. Hong Kong, China.

 
Added to Education in Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science in Australia and Pacific

• University of Auckland Master of Professional Studies (MProfStuds) in Data Science Science, draws together courses from Computer Science, Statistics and Information Systems to address a need for professionals with a specific skill set. Auckland, New Zealand.
• University of Waikato MS in Computer Science, includes courses in Data Mining and Machine Learning, home of the popular WEKA software for data mining. Waikato, New Zealand.

 
Added to Education in Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science in Europe

• Technical University Dortmund MS in Data Science, can be started in either the summer or winter semesters, and is run under Faculty of Statistics in cooperation with the Faculty of Information Technology and Faculty of Mathematics. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
• Coventry University MS in Data Science and Computational Intelligence, provides an industry-relevant program. Coventry, UK.
• De Montfort U. MSc in Business Intelligence Systems and Data Mining, Leicester, UK.
• Royal Holloway University of London MS in Data Science and Analytics/MS in Machine Learning. Egham, Surrey, UK.
• University of Bristol Machine Learning MSc, Bristol, UK.
• University of Glasgow MS in Data Science, provides a 12-month full time program and also a 24-month part time program. Glasgow, Scotland.
• University of Warwick BS in Data Science, designed for able mathematicians with an interest in pursuing sophisticated theory and methods relevant to modern applications requiring large-scale data analysis. Coventry, UK.

 
Added to Education in Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science in USA/Canada

• Brandeis MS in Strategic Analytics, online, part-time and flexible. Waltham, MA.
• University of Rochester Institute for Data Science, offers BS in Data Science, Professional MS in Computer Science, MA/MS in Medical Statistics and also related PhD programs. Rochester, NY.
• University of Virginia MS in Data Science, an 11-month professional masters program, designed to meet the increasingly data-intensive needs of industry and government. Charlottesville, VA.
• Illinois Institute of Technology Master of Data Science, interdisciplinary program preparing well-rounded data scientists, with curriculum combining theory and practical skill, including problem formulation, data analytics, qualitative reasoning, business communication, and professional ethics. Chicago, IL.
• University of Southern California Master of Science in Computer Science with a specialization in Data Science,
• USF BS in Data Science. The most successful students in this program will have the option to enroll in a 4+1 program with USF's own Masters in Analytics. San Francisco, CA.

 
Added to Text Analysis, Text Mining, and Information Retrieval Software

• KNIME, an open source analytics platform which offers extensions for text analysis currently including Stanford NLP, Palladin, and Linguamatics.
• PolyVista, advanced listening, filtering, and analysis software and services to make sense of everything said about your company.

 
Added to CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

• Pando makes localized marketing possible for national brands by integrating their content, assets and data sources to create 24/7 highly personalized marketing support.

 
Added to Meetings page:

• July 17, Unlocking Value with Text Analytics, Fresh Data Boston. Boston, MA, USA.
• July 21-24, International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• July 30, Analytics 2014: Insights For Mission Impact. Reston, VA, USA.
• Aug 4-6, COM.BigData 2014, International Summit on Big Data Computing, Washington, DC, and also online.
• Aug 8-9, 1st. Int. Conf on Data Mining and Database (DMDB-2014). Pune, India.
• Sep 10-11, Sports Analytics Innovation Summit. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Sep 12-18, DataWeek + API World. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Sep 15-17, PAW: Predictive Analytics World Government. Washington, DC, USA.
• Sep 17-18, Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit. Sydney, Australia.
• Sep 19, MLconf, Machine Learning conference. Atlanta, GA, USA.
• Sep 22-28, Boston Fall Data Festival. Boston, MA, USA.
• Sep 25-26, Data Visualization Summit. Boston, MA, USA.
• Sep 30 - Oct 2, DataLEAD, focus on applications of big data to real world business issues with a particular focus on finance and marketing.
• Oct 5-9, PAW: Predictive Analytics World. Boston, MA, USA.
• Oct 6-7, PAW: Predictive Analytics World. Boston, MA, USA.
• Oct 22-24, 2014, The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE Grc2014). Hokkaido, Japan.
• Oct 29-30, PAW: Predictive Analytics World. London, UK.
• Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2014 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA'2014). Shanghai, China.
• Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2014 International Conference on Behavior, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC'2014). Shanghai, China.
• Nov 4-5, PAW: Predictive Analytics World. Berlin, Germany.
• Nov 4-5, Text Analytics Summit West. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Dec 17-19, 20th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD) 2014. Hyderabad, India.
• Dec 27-29, Big Data and Analytics for Business (BDAB-2014). New Delhi, India.
• Mar 31 - Apr 1, Predictive Analytics World for Workforce. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Apr 30 - May 2, SDM 2015: The Fifteenth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Jul 11-24, World Congress DSA 2015. Hamburg, Germany.
• Jul 11-24, 15th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM. Hamburg, Germany.
• Jul 11-24, 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining MLDM. Hamburg, Germany.
• Aug 11-14, KDD 2015: 21th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Sydney, Australia.