Additions to KDnuggets Directory in August

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

Here are new entries in August 2014 in KDnuggets Directory.

Those entries 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 new page Top stories on KDnuggets, which has the latest top stories for the recent weeks and months.

Added to Meetings page:

• Sep 18-19, Leeds Business Analytics Conference. Boulder, CO, USA.
• Oct 25, ACM Data Science Camp, involves the audience members taking 1 minute turns proposing unconference sessions. San Jose, CA, USA.
• Nov 6-7, Social Media & Web Analytics Innovation Summit. Miami, FL, USA.
• Dec 2-3, Big Data Europe Congress 2014. London, UK.
• Mar 18-21, 2015, ACM India SIGKDD Conference on Data Sciences (IKDD CODS). Bangalore, India
• Jun 12, 2015, 2nd Swiss Workshop on Data Science (SDS|2015). Winterhur, Switzerland.
• Jul 6-11, 2015, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Lille, France.
• Jul 25 - Aug 1, 2015, 24th Int. Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Aug 10-13, 2015, KDD 2015: 21th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Data Science. Sydney, Australia.

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

• Bentley University Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics, Waltham, MA, USA.
• Bryant University, SAS Certificate in Data Mining. Smithfield, RI, USA.
• Florida State University SAS Certificate in Statistical Methods, both undergraduate and graduate levels. Tallahassee, FL, USA.
• Indiana U. Kelley School of Business Business Analytics Certificate Program, 4 courses, over 12 months, combining on-campus and web-based learning. Bloomington, IN, USA.
• NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) The Graduate Certificate in Data Mining. Online.
• Oklahoma State University Analytics and Data Mining Certificate Programs, including SAS and OSU Data Mining Certificate for OSU students. Stillwater, OK.
• Oklahoma State University Online Graduate Certificate in Business Data Mining for working professionals. Online.
• Rockhurst University 12-Credit-Hour Graduate Certificate in Data Science with tracks in Business Analytics and BI, complete in 15 months, or complete a Data Science concentration within our Part-Time evening MBA program. Kansas City, KS, USA.
• Stanford Center for Professional Education, offers certificate programs for managers and professionals in Data Mining and Applications, Mining Massive Data Sets, Quantitative Methods in Finance, and Financial Risk Analysis and Management. Online.
• Statistics.com Analytics for Data Science Certificate Program, 8 required, 3 elective courses. Online.
• Statistics.com Programming for Data Science Certificate Program, 8 required, 3 elective courses. Online.
• Syracuse University CAS (Certificate of Advanced Study) in Data Science, 5 courses. Syracuse, NY, USA (on-campus) or online.
• TMA certificates in Data Analytics, Predictive Analytics, and Data Mining, with CPE accreditation from NASBA. Online.
• UARK: University of Arkansas Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics, Fayetteville, AR, USA or online.
• UC: U. of Cincinnati Data Analytics Graduate Certificate, 6 courses. Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• UCI: U. of California, Irvine Extension, Predictive Analytics Certificate Program, 5 required and 3 elective courses. Online.
• UCSD Data Mining certificate program, 6 courses. Online.
• U. of Louisville Graduate Certificate in Data Mining, can be completed on campus (Louisville, KY, USA) or online in 12 months.
• UToronto: U. of Toronto School of Continuing Studies certificate program Management of Enterprise Analytics (Big Data), Toronto, ON, Canada.
• UWM Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Analysis using SAS, Milwaukee, WI, MI, USA.

 


Added to Online Education in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science

• SMU MS in Data Science, in partnership with 2U, is designed to train and develop data scientists to manage, analyze, interpret, make decisions and present information from large data sets.

 


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

• OSU BS in Data Analytics (undergraduate major), Columbus, OH. The program combines courses from Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science and students can elect to specialize in one of three tracks - Business Analytics, Health Analytics or Computational Analytics.

 


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

• Ontotext provides semantic technology blending text mining, inference and a graph database to deliver optimized knowledge management, search and semantic analysis solutions.

 


Added to Visualization and Data Mining Software

• Quadbase, provides software and services for data visualization, BI dashboards, reporting, R programming and predictive analytics
• Tom Sawyer Software offers customers mature and high-performance products that address the difficult problems of scalable graph visualization, layout, and analysis.