Data Mining / Analytic News, Dec 2009

• New Poll: Meetings you attended in 2009 ( 0 comments) - Dec 28, 2009.
  New KDnuggets Poll: Which data mining related meetings you attended in 2009? Please vote on www.kdnuggets.com
• CALBC Challenge (biomedical text annotation) starts - Dec 27, 2009.
  creating a broadly-scoped and diversely annotated biomedical text corpus (150,000 Medline abstracts on immunology annotated with different semantic groups) by automatically integrating the annotations from many different named entity recognition and concept identification systems
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• Poll Results: Top Industries for Data Mining Applications ( 0 comments) - Dec 26, 2009.
  CRM analytics and Banking still lead; Social Network analysis shows the largest gain.
• NPR Science Friday: Data Mining in the Mobile World ( 0 comments) - Dec 23, 2009.
  By analyzing cell phone movements and online search queries, scientists can monitor traffic in real time and track disease outbreaks more efficiently, but at what cost to privacy? Computer scientists Tom Mitchell and Deborah Estrin discuss the pros and cons of crowd sourcing personal data
• University of Minnesota computer scientists to help track global climate change through new data mining tools - Dec 21, 2009.
  The U. of Minnesota and the Planetary Skin Institute partnership will use data mining tools to track historical changes in the Earth’s forest ecosystems and better determine their relationship to climate change.
• Most viewed items for week Dec 13-19 - Dec 21, 2009.
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• Top KDnuggets News Items for 2009 - Dec 15, 2009.
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• Most viewed items for week starting Dec 06, 2009 - Dec 13, 2009.
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• Fordham University and IBM Launch Curriculum to Prepare Students with Business Analytics Skills - Dec 10, 2009.
  Fordham's Schools of Business will offer Business Analytics for Managers course based on IBM analytics technology
• Active Learning Challenge - Dec 10, 2009.
  addresses machine learning problems in which labeling data is expensive, but large amounts of unlabeled data are available at low cost
• Analytic / Data Mining Blog Highlights - Dec 8, 2009.
  Interesting observations from recent blogs ... Google is now personalizing web search results for everyone who uses Google, whether logged in or not
• RSCTC'2010 Discovery Challenge: mining DNA microarray data. Prizes $3,000+ - Dec 8, 2009.
  feature selection in analysis of DNA microarray data and classification of patients for the purpose of medical diagnosis and treatment
• MIT Red Balloon Team Wins DARPA Network Challenge - Dec 7, 2009.
  The MIT team won $40,000 for being the first to identify the locations of all 10 balloons
• Most viewed items for week starting Nov 29, 2009 - Dec 7, 2009.
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• Erasmus Mundus Master Program in Data Mining and KM - Dec 1, 2009.
  This 2 year course is based in 6 universities in 4 countries: France, Romania, Italy, and Spain

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