Data Mining / Analytic News, Feb 2010

• Most viewed items for week Feb 14-20 - Feb 23, 2010.
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• Poll: Are there concise laws (patterns) in large datasets? - Feb 23, 2010.
  Problems that involve interacting with humans, such as natural language understanding, have not been shown to be solvable by concise, neat formulas like F = ma.
• Poll Results: Data Miner Salary by Region - Feb 23, 2010.
  in US and Europe average salary/income went down in 2010 (presumably due to the recession), while in Asia and Australia they went up.
• Survey: Difficulty and Importance of Various Modeling Steps - Feb 23, 2010.
  There are many steps required to build and deploy a system with a significant machine learning or data mining component. I am interested in how much time is spent per step in developing real systems and the community's opinion of the importance of the various steps.
• Most viewed items for week Feb 7-13 - Feb 21, 2010.
  most viewed news, jobs, positions
• Interview with RapidMiner's Ingo Mierswa, Ralf Klinkenberg, part 2 - Feb 9, 2010.
  Ralf and Ingo talk about attraction to data mining; transition from students to business leaders; exciting future developments; recent books; and advice to young students
• Interview with RapidMiner's Ingo Mierswa, Ralf Klinkenberg - Feb 9, 2010.
  Ingo Mierswa and Ralf Klinkenberg are young co-founders of the open-source company Rapid-I, which is providing RapidMiner and other software, solutions, and services in the fields of predictive analytics, data mining, and text mining.
• Gates, Ozzie, Microsoft execs patent personal data mining - Feb 8, 2010.
  a patent for a "personal data mining" system that would analyze information and make recommendations with the goal of aiding a person's decisions and improving quality of life.
• Most viewed items for week Jan 31 - Feb 6 - Feb 7, 2010.
  10 Very Interesting People; New Poll: Salary; Analytics Manager, London, and San Diego
• Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms - Feb 6, 2010.
  The market in 2009 was defined by the David and Goliathian struggle that occurred between resilient BI pure-play vendors and ostensibly omnipotent megavendors
• Final phase of the Active Learning challenge (deadline March 3) - Feb 5, 2010.
  Six new final datasets are now available at: http://clopinet.com/al
• Yahoo!'s 2nd Annual Key Scientific Challenges Program - Feb 2, 2010.
  This is your chance to get an inside look at - and help tackle - the big challenges that Yahoo! and the entire Internet industry are facing today; you'll gain access to Yahoo!’s world-class scientists, some of the richest and largest data repositories in the world, and have the potential to make a huge impact on the future of the Internet
• Kaggle: a platform for data-related competitions - Feb 1, 2010.
  Kaggle provides a competition platform for data-related contests, allowing companies, researchers, government and other organizations to expose their data to a wide range of analysts and techniques.

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