KDnuggets™ News 09:n23, Dec 2

Features

• New Poll: Industries / Fields where you applied Data Mining in 2009? - Nov 28, 2009.
  please vote on www.KDnuggets.com
• KDnuggets RSS Feed - subscribe now - Nov 30, 2009.
• How many books data miners buy? Nov 25, 2009.
  The median answer was 2 books, and average 2.5 books. See also KDnuggets pages for Introductory Data Mining Books and Professional Data Mining Books
• CSNA Distinguished Dissertation Award Nominations, due Feb 1. Nov 24, 2009.
  The Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award supported by Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Most viewed items from KDnuggets 09:n22, Nov 22, 2009.
  1. PMML and Open Source Data Mining - Predictive Analytics on the go!
• 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

Courses (see also All Courses)

• Data Mining: Levels I, II & III (Dec, Las Vegas; Feb, Orlando) - Dec 1, 2009.
  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

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Supervisor - Inventory Control at HSN, Roanoke, VA. Nov 25, 2009.
  daily cycle counting, inventory reconciliations and providing accuracy data to the Inventory Control and DC Management Teams
• Quantitative Java Developer at LYZ Capital Advisors LLC, Stamford, CT. Nov 24, 2009.
  We invite applications from motivated IT professionals to develop cutting-edge trading systems, risk management systems, and portfolio analytics tools.
• Product Head - Loyalty Analytics at Manthan Systems, Bangalore (India), UK, USA. Nov 24, 2009.
  This role demands entrepreneurial qualities to organically grow this line of business while owning P&L responsibility
• Regional Sales Director at KXEN, Multiple Locations across the United States. Nov 23, 2009.
  develop opportunities, demonstrate, advise on, promote and sell KXEN's software.

Academic/Research positions

• Postdoc in Bioinformatics at U. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA. Nov 23, 2009.
  work on datamining method and tool development in genomics, proteomics, and/or drug discovery, and collaborate on several visible and productive NIH funded projects.

Publications

• Book: Data Preparation for Data Mining - download available - Nov 30, 2009.
  by Dorian Pyle, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999, PDF, 560 pages, 5 MB.
• NYTimes: Can SAS adapt to increased competition? - Nov 29, 2009.
  At a Software Powerhouse, the Good Life Is Under Siege
• Q&A With Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Evangelist & Customer Insight Guru - Nov 28, 2009.
  The most important part of my role is that I am a small part of larger effort to create a data democracy in the online world.
• Predicting Holiday Sales 2009 Nov 19, 2009.
• New Foundation Confronts Offshoring Cover-Up, Nov 21, 2009.
  Market Research Clients and Providers Call for Transparency in Data Collection and Analytics Offshoring Practices

Meetings

• Predictive Analytics World, Feb 16-17, San Francisco - Dec 1, 2009.
  Predictive Analytics World is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners - special offer for KDnuggets readers
• Call For Participation ­ EGC’2010, Jan 26-29, Tunisia - Nov 26, 2009.
• 6th Annual Text Analytics Conference in Boston, Nov 21, 2009.
  will be held 25 - 26 May 2010, Radisson Hotel, Boston, MA, USA

News Briefs

• ORNL, partners helping scientists deal with data deluge - Nov 28, 2009.
  DataONE (http://dataone.org) is a global data access and preservation network
• Indian analytics company Manthan Systems raises $15M. Nov 25, 2009.
  Manthan plans to use funding to target leadership position in Retail Business Intelligence & Analytics
• Next-Generation Marketing Insights: New Company Launch, Nov 21, 2009.
• IBM Launches Business Analytics Cloud, Nov 19, 2009.

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• IEA/AIE 2010 Special Session, due Dec 10
• BAO 2010: Business Analytics and Optimization, due Dec 12
• PAKDD-2010 tutorial proposals, due Feb 28
• IAT-10, due Mar 26
• Industrial ICDM 2010 short papers, due Apr 30
• INFORMS Data Mining Cluster, due Jan 10
• UMAP 2010 abstracts, due Jan 11
• ICML/COLT 2010 Workshop proposals, due Jan 18
• KDD-2010, due Feb 2
• ICML 2010 Tutorial proposals, due Feb 13
• PAKDD-2010 tutorial proposals, due Feb 28
• IAT-10, due Mar 26
• Industrial ICDM 2010 short papers, due Apr 30

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