KDnuggets™ News 09:n25, Dec 16

Features

• Top KDnuggets News Items for 2009 - Dec 15, 2009.
  Netflix Prize, Software Tools, Salary, and more
• Most viewed items for week starting Dec 06, 2009 - Dec 13, 2009.
  most viewed news, jobs, positions
• 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

Courses (see also All Courses)

• statistics.com Courses on Data Mining and more - Dec 15, 2009.
  Upcoming online courses from statistics.com let you interact directly with experts over a period of 4 weeks, but don't require that you be online at any particular times of day.

Software (see also All Software)

• New Software: Text, Visualization, Statistics - Dec 14, 2009.
  new software added to KDnuggets
• First set of KNIME Enterprise Products launched - Dec 14, 2009.
  KNIME.com now offers a workflow and report server; KNIME Cluster Execution dramatically accelerates your workflows

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Senior Pricing Analyst, Client Analytical Services at UBS, Weehawken, NJ - Dec 14, 2009.
  apply advanced statistical, econometric and research methodologies to generate business insights regarding investment and banking product pricing and its relationship with revenue drivers
• Software Engineer (Data Intelligence Team) at Kgbweb, New York, NY - Dec 11, 2009.
  The Data Intelligence team is responsible for gathering, analyzing and making sense out of a variety of data to be used in a major consumer-facing offering.

Meetings (see also All Meetings)

• Predictive Analytics World, Feb 16-17, San Francisco - Dec 15, 2009.
  Super Early Bird Offer for Predictive Analytics World Ends this Friday, Dec. 18

Publications

• The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Dec 15, 2009.
  a collection of essays written by Microsoft's and outside scientists, as a tribute to Jim Grey
• Analyzing AdWords Positions In Google Analytics - Dec 13, 2009.
  with a combination of custom reports, advanced segments and pivot tables, you can do a meaningful analysis
• Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections - Dec 13, 2009.
  all networks share a remarkable property: their nodes can be classified into groups with the nodes connecting to each other depending on their group membership
• Gartner: Big Growth Ahead for Open Source BI - Dec 13, 2009.
  forecast: fivefold growth for the open source business intelligence market by 2012
• How Much Information? 34 GB a day - Dec 11, 2009.
  In 2008, Americans consumed information for an average of 12 hours / day, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day (UCSD study)
• A New Method to the Freakonomics Madness - Dec 10, 2009.
  Ian Ayres reviews Superfreakonomics, finds randomization is good

News Briefs

• SAS joins Teradata University Network - Dec 15, 2009.
  SAS(r) business intelligence and analytics curriculum will be available to thousands of professors, students
• Information Builders and ParAccel Partner to Support Rapid Adoption of Advanced Analytic Solutions - Dec 15, 2009.
  enables organizations to incorporate high-performance analytics and best-in-class business intelligence to harvest greater insight from their data
• Senators move to block drugmakers from mining Rx data - Dec 13, 2009.
  Drug companies won't be able to mine pharmacy records to track which doctors are prescribing their medications - proposal by two Senate Democrats.
• IBM: Manage Data Like Cash - Dec 12, 2009.
  report tracking the effective use of business analytics at successful businesses.
• Nurses Group Accepting Research Proposals for Quality Data Mining - Dec 9, 2009.
  use quality indicator database to evaluate links between nursing performance and patient outcomes
• Fighting Fraud with Social Network Analysis - Dec 9, 2009.
  Social network analysis can help insurers understand networks often connected to criminal behavior

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• A Decade of Mining the Web, due Jan 8
• Large-Scale Hierarchical Classification Workshop, due Jan 18
• INC 2010, due Jan 31
• KDD-2010, due Feb 2
• AAAI-2010 Workshop, due Mar 29

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