KDnuggets™ News 09:n24, Dec 9

Features

• 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.
  most viewed news, jobs, positions

Software (see also All Software)

• New Release of KNIME - now with Time Series, Text and Image Processing - Dec 2, 2009.
• Data Applied: Data Mining in the Cloud - Dec 5, 2009.
  affordable licenses with automated algorithms which extract patterns, preconditions and outliers
• Scoring data in Microsoft Office Excel - Dec 7, 2009.
  This add-in from Zementis is available now, free, and comes with a demo ADAPA instance (running on the Amazon Cloud) with sample models and data sets.
• Using GPUs for data mining - Dec 8, 2009.
  GPUs (Graphical Processing Units) are general purpose processors and offer over 10x the performance of a CPU

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Senior SAS Professional at The Cadmus Group - Dec 2, 2009.
  looking for professionals with a strong background in SAS programming to join our Energy Services Group, which provides advanced analytic and strategic consulting services to energy companies, utilities, governments, and non-profit organizations.
• Software Development Manager with Information Retrieval Experience at Amazon.com, Seattle, WA - Dec 4, 2009.
  Amazon.com's Fact Extraction (FX) team is looking for a technically strong and charismatic leader to manage a team of software developers tasked with improving the quality of our catalog.
• Quantitative Analytics Manager at Paypal, San Jose, CA - Dec 7, 2009.
  exceptional technical skills and strong problem-solving and analytical skills to help advance the detection capabilities of PayPal
• Research Engineer / Applied Scientist at Paypal, San Jose, CA - Dec 7, 2009.
  This position is part of newly formed Applied R&D team at PayPal focused on Risk Detection.
• Quantitative Researcher/Data Miner at iProspect, Mumbai, India - Dec 8, 2009.
  researching, analyzing, and reporting on data generated through iProspect's SEO and SEM services offerings, and client provided data
• Research Scientist at Siemens, Princeton at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ - Dec 8, 2009.
  immediate opening for a research scientist in data mining and machine learning for software applications in the area of renewable and sustainable energy

Academic/Research positions

• Text Mining for Brain Architecture at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York - Dec 8, 2009.
  provide general computing support for the Brain Architecture Project, including the development of data models and the implementation of databases / knowledge bases for the project.
• Faculty Position in Data Mining and Machine Learning at Monash University, Victoria, Australia - Dec 4, 2009.
  three permanent Faculty positions
• Post-doc position on XML schema learning at U. Hasselt, Belgium - Dec 4, 2009.
  research will include both theoretical investigations and experimental evaluation of novel learning algorithms for XML schema languages.

Publications

• Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics - Dec 8, 2009.
  I consider this massive proliferation of new thinking to be a gift from God
• The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management - Dec 8, 2009.
  By Nenshad Bardoliwalla, Enterprise Irregulars
• Winners of 2009 Digging into Data Challenge - Dec 7, 2009.
  winning projects data mining criminal intent, analyze music, a year of speech, 18th century letters and more
• That's Funny... A window on data can be a window on discovery - Dec 7, 2009.
  how a good visualization can stimulate a scientific discovery
• Automating the Design of Data Mining Algorithms: Book download - Dec 5, 2009.
  187 pages, Springer, PDF | 1 Mb

News Briefs

• Open Cloud Consortium Wins Bandwidth Challenge at SC09 Conference in Portland, Oregon - Dec 8, 2009.
  competition for new technology to support data intensive applications over wide area clouds
• Next Big Sound Raises Seed Round For Online Music Analytics - Dec 8, 2009.
  Next Big Sound is a statistics and comparison engine a la Alexa or Compete, but for music artists and industry professionals.
• IBM's Analytics Center Focuses on Financial Services - Dec 3, 2009.
  IBM has opened a business analytics center in London to focus on services for the U.K.'s financial sector.

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
• IJKDB: Special Issue on Mining Complex Structures in Biology, due Apr 1
• Industrial ICDM 2010 short papers, due Apr 30

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Thanks to Ross Bettinger