New entries for January 2015. 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.

 
The most popular meetings locations below

• San Diego, CA, USA : 9
• Boston, MA, USA : 7
• London, UK : 5
• San Jose, CA, USA : 4
• San Francisco, CA, USA : 4

 
Added to Meetings page:

• Jan 31 - Feb 6, WSDM 2015, covering research on search and data mining on the Web. Shanghai, China.
• Feb 3, San Diego February Predictive Analytics Meetup. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Feb 12-13, Apache Hadoop Innovation Summit. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Feb 12-13, Data Science Innovation Summit. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Feb 12-13, Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Feb 14-15, DTMN 2015 : International Conference on Data Mining. Bangalore, India.
• Feb 17-20, Strata + Hadoop World, make data work. San Jose, CA, USA.
• Mar 3, San Diego March Predictive Analytics Meetup. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Mar 4-5, Sports Analytics Innovation Summit. Melbourne, Australia.
• Mar 9-10, Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS). Doha, Qatar
• Mar 9-10, Workforce and HR Analytics Summit West 2015. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Mar 9-11, DMA Marketing Analytics Conference. Chicago, IL, USA.
• Mar 11-12, Big Data and Analytics Innovation Summit. Singapore.
• Mar 15-17, TDWI Solution Summit, Transform Business with Big Data Analytics. Savannah, GA, USA.
• Mar 17-18, HR & Workforce Analytics Innovation Summit. London, UK.
• Mar 18-19, GigaOM Structure Data. New York, NY, USA.
• Mar 25-26, Analytics for Insurance USA conference & exhibition. Chicago, IL, USA.
• Mar 25-26, Sports Analytics Innovation Summit. London, UK.
• Mar 30-31, Chief Data Strategy Forum. Boston, MA, USA.
• Mar 30 - Apr 1, Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• Apr 7, San Diego April Predictive Analytics Meetup. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Apr 16, Big Data 2015, CrossRoads Technology Exchange. New York, NY, USA.
• Apr 20, 2015 Analytics Applications Summit, free event at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. Harrisburg, PA, USA.
• Apr 20-22, PASS Business Analytics Conference. Santa Clara, CA, USA.
• Apr 21-22, Big Data and Analytics Innovation Summit. Hong Kong, China.
• Apr 24-25, Text by the Bay, a new NLP conference bringing together researchers and practitioners, using computational linguistics and text mining to build new companies. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Apr 28-29, Data Visualization Innovation Summit. San Jose, CA, USA.
• Apr 28-29, Big Data Innovation Summit. San Jose, CA, USA.
• Apr 28-29, Chief Data Officer Summit. San Jose, CA, USA.
• Apr 28-30, Big Data in Healthcare. Boston, MA, USA.
• Apr 29-30, Social Media & Web Analytics Innovation. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Apr 29-30, Gaming Analytics Summit. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• May 5, San Diego May Predictive Analytics Meetup. San Diego, CA, USA.
• May 11-12, Analytics for Insurance Canada conference & exhibition. Toronto, Canada.
• May 13-14, Big Data Innovation Summit. London, UK
• May 13-14, Digital and Web Analytics Summit. London, UK.
• May 13-14, Predictive Analytics Innovation. London, UK.
• May 14, 3rd Int. Conf. on Data Mining for Business Intelligence. Beer-Sheva, Israel.
• May 18-20, Alteryx Inspire 2015. Boston, MA, USA.
• May 20-21, Business Analytics Innovation Summit. Chicago, IL, USA.
• May 20-21, Business Intelligence Innovation Summit. Chicago, IL, USA.
• May 28-29, Re-Work Deep Learning Summit. Boston, MA, USA.
• May 30-31, Open Data Science Conference. Boston, MA, USA.
• Jun 2, San Diego June Predictive Analytics Meetup. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Jun 17-18, Customer Analytics Innovation. Chicago, IL, USA.
• Jun 22-24, Dynamic Networks and Cyber-Security. University of Bristol, UK.
• Jul 22-24, 9th European Conference on Data Mining 2015. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
• Aug 26-28, 14th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2015). Seoul, South Korea.
• Sep 9-10, Sports Analytics Innovation Summit. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Sep 23-24, Data Visualization Innovation Summit. Boston, MA, USA.
• Sep 23-24, Big Data Innovation. Boston, MA, USA.
• Oct 15-17, Strata + Hadoop World, make data work. New York, NY, USA.
• Oct 22-24, The Fourteenth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2015). Saint-Etienne, France.

 


Added to Consulting Companies in Data Mining and Analytics

• Silicon Valley Data Science, a big data and data science company that specializes in agile and business-focused solutions. Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

 


Added to Companies with Data Mining and Analytics Products

• BayeSniffer, Bayesian data analytics products and services.

 


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

• Washington U. in St. Louis Certificate in Data Mining and Machine Learning, Saint Louis, MO, USA.

 


Added to Education in Analytics and Data Mining in Europe

• Data ScienceTech Institute, 2-year MSc program in Data Science, based in Paris, France.
• Data ScienceTech Institute, 16-month full time MSc program in Big Data, based in Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France.

 


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

• METIS Data Science Bootcamp, 12-weeks course, in partnership with Datascope Analytics. New York, NY, USA.

 


Added to Fraud Detection Solutions

• IBM Counter Fraud Management, a holistic, next generation approach to pro-actively preventing, detecting and investigating fraud, financial crimes and improper payments by integrating advanced analytics into a single solution.
• RiskShield from INFORM GmbH offers a flexible and highly configurable risk assessment and fraud prevention solutions for payment, card processing, and insurance.