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AnalyticBridge Newsletter - July 2010

Featured New Books and Companies

Rapid-I provides software, solutions, and services in the fields of predictive analytics, data mining, and text mining. The company concentrates on automatic intelligent analyses on a large-scale base, i.e. for large amounts of structured data like database systems and unstructured data like texts. The open-source data mining specialist Rapid-I enables other companies to use leading-edge technologies for data mining and business intelligence. The discovery and leverage of unused business intelligence from existing data enables better informed decisions and allows for process optimization.
Analytics1305 -- Machine learning software that scales. In our July release we have added:
- xmeans implementation/automatic determination clusters in kmeans, kmeans++ initialization,
- Neighbor search for KL divergence
- Neighbor search for Hellinger metric (documents bag of words)
- Online version for every algorithm
Distributed version of our library with database support is coming up soon.
Rapid Insight - Rapid Insight Inc. is a leading provider of business intelligence and automated predictive analytics software. With a focus on ease of use and efficiency, Rapid Insight® products enable users to turn their raw data into actionable information. Data can be merged, cleansed, and aggregated from multiple sources in multiple formats. Visual processes can be saved and modified for the creation of analytic datasets, ad-hoc analyses, and reports. Predictive models can be built in minutes instead of weeks.
Data Mining with STATISTICA Video Series -- The Data Mining with STATISTICA series is 35 videos covering concepts, process, and hands-on data mining. The intent of this series is to familiarize you with data mining, so that you are empowered to start your own data mining projects and can carry out the projects successfully. You will see the tools that are available, the output they produce with tips about interpreting the output, and how to display project success. To be notified when new episodes are made available register at www.statsoft.com/dmsubscribe.

Featured Conferences and Webinars

Data Mining: Failure to Launch ( Free Webinar: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 ) -- Get Predictive Analytics off the ground and into orbit. In this vendor-neutral and method agnostic live presentation, participants will learn why more than half of all data mining projects fail or fall short; how to avoid common pitfalls; valuable tips and tricks to enhance predictive modeling performance; why data mining is within their grasp; and how to get started. View event details and register for this Free Webinar.
Predictive Analytics World (October 19-20, Washington DC) is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, covering today's commercial deployment of predictive analytics, across industries and across software vendors. The conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to achieve two objectives:
- Bigger wins: Strengthen the business impact delivered by predictive analytics
- Broader capabilities: Establish new opportunities with predictive analytics
M2010 Data Mining Conference, Oct. 25-26 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas: www.sas.com/m2010.
The 13th annual M2010 Data Mining Conference will take place Oct 25-26 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Join more than 700 of your peers and listen to more than 40 speakers share the latest research, techniques and methodologies in the field of analytics. Top-notch speakers will share real-world examples of how they are using data mining to reveal critical patterns and relationships in their organization's data.

Keynote speakers: Hamparsum Bozdogan, University of Tennessee - Richard DeVeaux, Williams College - John Elder, Elder Research - Colleen McCue, SPADAC Inc. - Will Neafsey, Ford Motor Company - Simon Sheather and Mike Speed, Texas A&M University.

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Message From The Editor

Datalligence has been selected as our Member of the Month for June 2010. Dataligence has posted numerous interesting discussions and replies over a long time period, and is one of our faithful contributors. Click here to visit his profile. A $250 prize is offered each month to our Member of the Month.
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