Data Mining / Analytic Software News, Apr 2010

• Kaggle Progress and spotting fee - Apr 21, 2010.
  Kaggle is now offering spotters fees for great ideas for competitions
• The 2010 VAST Challenges (text, medical records, death records, genetic sequences) - Apr 21, 2010.
  To provide more opportunities for increased participation we again offer an overall Grand Challenge as well as three smaller Mini Challenges.
• WordStat 6, with enhanced analytical and visualization tools - Apr 20, 2010.
  Provalis Research, a leading provider of text analysis software, announces the release of WordStat 6, delivering enhanced analytical and visualization tools in an improved easy-to-use interface.
• SAS Seeks to Improve Data Mining of Social Media - Apr 16, 2010.
  SAS Social Media Analytics is powered by the natural-language processing technology from Teragram and has impressive automated sentiment analysis; it also supports influence scores
• Kaggle Launches its First Competition - Apr 14, 2010.
  Kaggle is hosting its first competition - to forecast the voting for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest.
• SAS: OnDemand, Free for Academics - Apr 13, 2010.
  an online service for teaching and learning data management and analytics, will be available at no cost to all higher ed students worldwide in fall 2010.
• Visual Analytic Tools Survey - Apr 7, 2010.
  I am working on a capabilities development project for the MITRE Corporation, and we are conducting a survey of several different visualization tools.
• ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2010: Web Content quality - Apr 6, 2010.
  The goal is to develop automatic site-level classifiers including aspects such as trustworthiness, authoritativeness, neutrality, and genre (editorial, news, commercial, educational, Web spam and more).
• TunedIT: on-line student competition platform - Apr 2, 2010.
  TunedIT on-line data mining and machine learning competition platform is now open for teachers who want to organize on-line student contests
• Get the Data Mining Add-ins made for you - Apr 2, 2010.
  Predixion Software, founded by several ex-Microsoft data miners, is seeking your feedback on data mining add-ins and components

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