KDnuggets™ News 09:n22, Nov 18

Features

• New KDnuggets News Design and Features
• Most popular news, jobs, software, ... from KDnuggets News 09:n21 (Nov 4 issue).
  New Poll: Data Mining Books
  Analytics / Data Mining Blog Highlights
  New book on Multidimensional Visualization
• Text Analytics New & Noteworthy, Fall 2009.
  Covering text analytics software, market, conference, and other news and developments to help KDnuggets readers better understand advances in Knowledge Discovery in Text
• Predictive Analytics World, Feb 16-17, San Francisco
  Predictive Analytics World (pawcon.com) is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners

Courses (see also All Courses)

• Data Mining: Levels I, II & III (Dec, Las Vegas; Feb, Orlando),
  Learn how experts mine data in Las Vegas or Orlando. The next offerings of The Modeling Agency's vendor-neutral, application-oriented data mining course series are Dec 7-11 in Las Vegas, and Feb 8-12 in Orlando
• SAS Course: Put your Data to Work with Advanced Analytics

Webcasts (see also All Webcasts)

• Webinar, Dec 9: "Divisional BI" - Benefits of SaaS Business Analytics.

Software (see also All Software)

• PMML and Open Source Data Mining - Predictive Analytics on the go!

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Applied Scientist
  at Evri, Seattle, WA.
  Our team is bringing the world a fundamentally new and more effective way of finding and navigating information by leveraging the power of our highly accurate deep natural language processing based text analysis and search platform.
• Predictive Modeler/Data Mining Analyst
  at Humana, Louisville, KY.
  perform data analysis, develop algorithms, models and computational design to implement, document and present technical information to a broad audience
• Research Director, Data Mining
  at AT&T Interactive Applied Research, San Francisco, CA.
  Develop and deliver the next generation of AT&T technologies; define the research roadmap; launch and execute impactful research projects; oversee the development of research prototypes; ...
• Sr. Research Scientist, Search
  at AT&T Interactive Applied Research, San Francisco, CA.
  Help us define the future of mobile communication technologies; Our work areas include core IR models, question-answering, user-modeling, mobile presentation and interaction models, NLP, geographic models and social search.
• Sr. Research Scientist, Web IE and Web DM
  at AT&T Interactive Applied Research, San Francisco, CA.
  Execute research projects, develop innovative algorithms; pursue patents where appropriate. Analyze data, identify problems and potential customers, devise solutions and build prototypes.
• Research Scientist
  at Thomson Reuters, New York, NY.
  Conduct applied research in data mining, information retrieval, text mining, or related areas in the context of large online delivery environments...
• Quantitative Researcher/Data Miner
  at iProspect, Chicago, IL.
  responsible for researching, analyzing, and reporting on data generated through iProspect's SEO and SEM services offerings, and client provided data

Academic/Research positions

• Posdoctoral Researcher, Bayesian Networks at LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA.

Publications

• SIGEVOlution Volume 4 Issue 1, Nov 11, 2009.

Meetings

• Bentley University Virtual Analytics Symposium, Dec 2, 2009.

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• Call-for-Proposal: INFORMS Data Mining Contest 2010.
• Workshop on Link Analysis for Adversarial Data Mining: at SDM 2010, due Jan 2
• GECCO-2010: 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, due Jan 13
• SDM 2010: Workshop on Text Mining at 2010 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, due Jan 15
• MLDMSD2010: SDM 2010 Workshop on Machine learning and Data Mining for Sustainable Development, due Jan 15
• DATA MINING CUP 2010: prudsys User Days 2010, due Feb 1
• Computer J. DS: The Computer Journal Special Issue on Discovery Science, due Feb 28

News Briefs

• IBM Opens Advanced Analytics Center in Washington, D.C.
• Thoughts on the SF Bay Data Mining Camp.
• EU Proposal Could Cripple Common Web Ad Practices.
• Fraud Screening: The Hunt for Suspicious Data.
• IBM Launches Business Analytics Center of Competency in India.
• IBM Launches Health Analytics Center.

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