There is a number of people and organizations which are using Data Mining in an intensive way either for education or business purposes. We would like to introduce you the ones we have considered much more relevant.
BusinessReviewPro deals with reviews and social media mentions about hotels world wide and additionally they do this in a list of languages. By doing Semantic Analysis and ranking these opinions, this start-up company has developed a powerful tool for hoteliers to manage their reputation on the web so they can make both strategic and operational decisions on time. Find out more about Reputation Management in Internet. Revolution Analytics is a software company focused on supporting the commercial applications for industrial use of R programming language. In spite of the fact that R is an Open Source Code born in the Academic arena, this organization leads the interest of companies in the commercial side of R language. They have developed the product Revolution R Enterprise which is available for free for the educational community. We find also really interesting the blog of Revolution Analytics | Education and Social NetworksKhan Academy is an educational web site which holds a large list of videos offering complete curricula mainly in Math, but also in other subjects. This is a project led by Salman Khan and sponsored by Google and Bill Gates "Give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help" Basic knowledge on Statistics and Probability may help when dealing with Data Mining algorithms. Quandl is an Internet financial dataset provider. Quandl has indexed millions of time-series datasets from over 400 sources. All of Quandl's datasets are open and free. You can download any Quandl dataset in any format that you want. You can also visualize, save, share, authenticate, validate, upload, index, merge and transform data . Their long-term goal is to make all the numerical data on the internet easy to find and easy to use. Quandl has also developed an R package which can be easily downloaded from your R Console. Documentation is available both at sites of CRAN and Quandl. Miriada is a Massive Open Online Course site portal, for the Spanish speaking community. It is a nice initiative, since it drives, in an open way, the interests of educational institutions and students. At present we are sharing Business Intelligence knowledge through the course "Introducción al Business Intelligence" |
