KDnuggets™ News 10:n09, Apr 28

Features

• Facebook F8: One graph to rule them all - Apr 26, 2010.
  For better or worse, Facebook Open Graph will enable web-wide social data mining
• Please Participate in 4th Annual Data Mining Survey - Apr 26, 2010.
  Rexer Analytics is conducting our 4th annual survey of the analytic behaviors, views and preferences of data mining professionals.
• Most viewed items for week Apr 18-24 - Apr 26, 2010.
  News: Most data miners won't buy an iPad; You've got to touch this! Oracle Data Mining on an iPad;
  Top jobs: Data Analyst / Scientist at DailyMe, Miami; Statistician at Chick-fil-A, Atlanta

Software (see also All Software)

• 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.

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Director of Analytics and Business Intelligence - Playfish at Electronic Arts, San Francisco, CA - Apr 27, 2010.
  Playfish is one of the world's largest and fastest growing social games companies with a mission to change how the world plays games.
• Manager, Database Marketing at Cox Communications, Orange County, CA - Apr 26, 2010.
  responsible for an end-to-end management of OC's direct-response campaigns for all products (Video, Voice and Data) on the acquisition and retention fronts
• Scientist/Sr Scientist, Ad Selection at Turn Inc, Redwood City, CA and other locations - Apr 26, 2010.
  Turn Inc. is the smart platform for digital advertising. Our mission is to deliver the most effective data-driven advertising in the world
• Manager, Business Analytics at Sears, Hoffman Estates, IL, USA - Apr 23, 2010.
  oversee the development, enhancement, and implementation of promotional price elasticity models and analytical insights to generate profitable incremental sales and margin impacts through strategic pricing initiatives.
• Statistical Analyst II at AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah, Walnut Creek, CA - Apr 21, 2010.
  prepare, research, analyze and coordinate with the Auto/Homeowners Claims departments on all statistical filings; also analyze rate-making and loss reserving system changes and test premium rating systems for accuracy

Meetings (see also All Meetings)

• Bentley University Virtual Analytics Symposium, May 6, 11:30-1:30 ET - Apr 27, 2010.
  Michael J. A. Berry on The Importance of Measuring the Right Thing.
• ICML 2010 Call for Participation, Haifa, Israel, June 21-25 - Apr 26, 2010.
  The scientific program features 152 paper and poster presentations, 8 tutorials, 10 workshops, an invited application track, 3 invited speakers, and a guest lecture by Nobel laureate Robert Aumann.
• Pascal2 Machine Learning Bootcamp - Marseille, France - Apr 26, 2010.
  The LIF-Marseille organises machine learning bootcamp, July 5 - 13 in Marseille, France. Application deadline: May 15.

Publications

• The Paradox of Overfitting - Apr 26, 2010.
  An overfitted model is one that approaches reproducing the training data on which the model is built.
• Avinash Kaushik on Web Analytics 101 - Apr 22, 2010.
  There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. So in this short post let's try and see if we can fix this really basic problem.
• Keeping Medical Data Private - Apr 22, 2010.
  Algorithm protects patients personal information while preserving the data utility in large-scale medical studies
• Tom H.C. Anderson Interview with Dan Ariely - Apr 21, 2010.
  NGMR Marketing Guru Interview - Dan Ariely and Tom H. C. Anderson discuss Predictably Irrational and market research

News Briefs

• UAI 2010 Approximate Inference Evaluation Competition - Apr 27, 2010.
  the upcoming evaluation of probabilistic inference algorithms, will be part of the UAI conference in July
• Book: Intro. to Information Retrieval, online - Apr 26, 2010.
  The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective and is based on a courses taught at Stanford and U. of Stuttgart.
• New Book: Search User Interfaces, by Marti Hearst - read online free - Apr 22, 2010.
  The full text of this book can be read free of charge.
• New book on analytics, plus my blogs - Apr 21, 2010.
  In my book "Numbers Rule Your World: the hidden influence of probability and statistics on everything you do" I discuss five fundamental statistical concepts through telling stories of how statistics affect many aspects of our lives
• Boeing gives $1.25 million to launch new tech institute - Apr 27, 2010.
  Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics brings together industry, SFU, UBC
• Sentiment360: Groundbreaking New Social Media Company - Apr 27, 2010.
  Sentiment360 combines the latest new media search technologies with teams of highly qualified research analysts to provide both a wide reach of quantitative knowledge along with deep qualitative insights for optimum results.
• System And Method For Supply Chain Data Mining And Analysis - Apr 27, 2010.
  The method then detects a root cause for the detected combination of factors; performs correlation analysis between the selected factors; and performs trend analysis on the selected factors.
• Clarabridge Announces Enterprise 4.1 Including Innovations in Sentiment Analysis - Apr 26, 2010.
  New version enhances understanding of the voice of the customer with more robust data visualization, new wizards for rapid project setup and new sentiment intensity capabilities
• Pervasive Software Quarterly Results - Apr 22, 2010.
  Company Reports 37th Consecutive Profitable Quarter, Record Level of Deferred Revenue
• Networked Insights Gets $5 Million for Social Media Analytics - Apr 22, 2010.
  Networked Insights, a provider of social media analytics, announced that it has raised $5 million in its first round of funding
• Washington fraud-busters turn to social analytics - Apr 22, 2010.
  fraud detection agents from Washington's Department of Labor and Industries revealed how social networking business analytics is curbing the rise of compensation cheats
• SAS, JMP mix simulation and analytics to foster innovation - Apr 22, 2010.
  Satisfy time and budget constraints using discrete event simulation, design of experiments, visualization
• Linguamatics Outperforms Target Of 50% Growth Year-On-Year - Apr 22, 2010.
  Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining, announced that sales revenue in 2009 exceeded $5million, more than 50% higher than a year ago

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• SOMA 2010: Social Media Analytics, due May 7
• Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2010-Berlin, due May 31
• Data Clustering and Bioinformatics, due Jun 1
• Book chapters on Data Visualization Techniques in Marketing Research, due Jun 15
• ECML/PKDD-2012 proposals, due Jun 30
• Computational Learning for Aerospace 2011, due Aug 1

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