AnalyticBridge Newsletter - April 2009

AnalyticBridge Monthly Newsletter - April 2009

• New groups recently created: STATISTICA by StatSoft, Inc., Excel Analytics
• Member of the Month: Shashank Shekhar, Business Analyst at Target, has been selected as our Member of the Month for March 2009. Shashank created the Actuarial Analytics group, made several new friends on Analyticbridge, created a great profile, and posted interesting material in several blogs, forums and groups. Congratulations Shashank!
• How to post a conference? Go to Conference Group, and click on the "Start Discussion" button at the bottom of the page. Your conference or seminar will then appear on all pages, in the right column, within the next 60 minutes.
• Are you looking for a consulting gig, or to hire a consultant? Visit our Ask The Expert group.
• To advertise on AnalyticBridge (banner ad or job ad), please contact Vincent Granville at vincentg@datashaping.com, or visit our e-store. We currently have a limited number of available spots.

• Featured Listings
  • Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications by Robert Nisbet, John Elder, IV and Gary Miner. Expected Release Date: May 2009.
  • RPM Square, founded by Scott Terry: State-Of-The-Art Data Mining And Predictive Modeling Training Courses That Are GUARANTEED to Help You Prosper Under Today's Tough Economic Conditions.

• Coming Soon
  • AnalyticBridge networking party (diner, invited speaker, dancing). We will send a notification when our first event is scheduled.
  • AnalyticBridge webinars and training: our first topics will be about ROI optimization for social networks, and new hybrid data mining technologies (hidden decision trees and hidden forests).

• Editor's Picks
  • New video: Data Mining with Statistica
  • Ajay's interviews: Visual Numerics Alicia McGreevey, KNIME Fabian Dill. Please contact us if you want to publish an interview on AnalyticBridge.
  • Past newsletters
  • Missing values in target variable
  • AnalyticBridge on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook etc. - spread the word!
  • Statistical evidence of global warming
  • Data Mining and Financial Time Series
  • 4 open source data mining tools (with GUI)
  • Making Davenport’s "Competing on Analytics" real, and in real-time ...
  • LatentView SAS to PMML Converter
  • Fragmented models for scoring
  • Logit vs Probit Regression
  • Analytic Modeling in Python
  • Plane crash data
  • Taking High Performance Computing Mainstream with Microsoft

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