KDnuggets™ News 10:n10, May 5

Features

• New Poll: Data Mining/Analytic Tools Used - May 4, 2010.
  Which data mining/analytic tools you used in the past 12 months for a real project (not just evaluation)?
• Poll Results: Climate Change Causes Questioned
  - May 4, 2010.
  KDnuggets Poll reveals surprising doubts on the causes of climate change
• Most viewed items for week Apr 25 - May 1 - May 2, 2010.
  Top News: Facebook: One graph to rule them all; The Paradox of Overfitting
  Top Jobs: Director of Analytics and BI, Playfish at EA; Scientist, Ad Selection at Turn
• Text Analytics Summit, May 25-26, Boston - Get KDnuggets Discount - May 3, 2010.
  Attend Text Analytics Conference - learn latest on Voice of the Customer, Sentiment Analysis, Social Media Analysis, Customer Experience Management & More...

Webcasts (see also All Webcasts)

• SAS Webinar, May 19: Analytics Data Prep 101 - May 1, 2010.
  this Webinar will highlight the specific approaches and unique data requirements needed to deal with analytics.

Software (see also All Software)

• Centrifuge - Cool Vendor in Analytics, BI - May 4, 2010.
  Centrifuge included in the list of "Cool Vendors in BI and Performance Management" published by Gartner, Apr 2010.

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Email Marketing Manager/Director at CoreLogic, San Francisco, CA - May 4, 2010.
  help expand our company to the next level by further monetizing our extensive email lists generated through our lead generation methods
• Director of Data Analytics at SpeedDate.com, San Francisco Bay Area, CA - May 4, 2010.
  We're looking for someone who is excited about digging into our data to come up with ways to enhance user experience and directly impact our business goals.
• Credit Policy Risk Analyst at HSBC, Mettawa, IL - May 2, 2010.
  Provide analytical and/or MIS support for credit policy, risk and/or marketing related functions
• Predictive Modeler at Allstate Insurance Company, Menlo Park, CA and Northbrook, IL - Apr 30, 2010.
  We offer the perfect combination of basic research projects and real business problems, as well as the time, tools and environment to effectively tackle both.
• Technical Director at KXEN, San Francisco, CA - Apr 28, 2010.
  responsible for technical pre-sales support, training, and consulting activities in the western region of the US.

Meetings (see also All Meetings)

• Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets - Registration open - Apr 28, 2010.
  Online registration for the 2010 Workshop on Algorithms for Modern

Publications

• Stanford course on Statistical Aspects of Data Mining - May 4, 2010.
  Video of a Stanford course taught by Dr. Rajan Patel
• KDD 2010 accepted papers - May 3, 2010.
  Reseach and Industry accepted papers were announced
• Datasets and Data-driven Startups - May 3, 2010.
  What follows is our list of data sets that you might have a chance at building a business around
• Altimeter Report: Social Marketing Analytics - May 1, 2010.
  Many companies are stumbling blindly into social media marketing, largely without measurement in place. This report evaluates numerous vendors with respect to business objectives and KPIs.
• Revolutionary R, An Interview with REvolution Computing CEO Norman Nie - Apr 30, 2010.
  Norman Nie is a co-founder and past CEO of SPSS. He recently became CEO of REvolution Computing, the commercial open source vendor of the R Project
• Data mining with WEKA, Part 1: Introduction and regression - Apr 30, 2010.
  an intro to data mining and to WEKA, free and open source software you can use to mine your own data
• Goodnight: SAS data analytics offers much more than BI from IBM, SAP - Apr 29, 2010.
  Dr. Goodnight explains his decision to enter the social media analytics field, how SAS determines which data warehouse vendors to partner with on in-database analytics, and why industry-specific analytic products are the right approach

News Briefs

• The ZULU Active Learning Competition - May 3, 2010.
  participants are to build algorithms that can learn deterministic finite automata (DFA) by making the smallest number of membership queries to the server/oracle.
• New Kaggle Competition - HIV Progression Prediction - Apr 28, 2010.
  Models can be trained using the records of 1,000 patients, with the goal of predicting improvement in a patient's viral load.
• On Facebook, sex sells - May 3, 2010.
  Articles in my dataset that include sexual references in their titles, are shared on Facebook far more than the average story.
• IA Ventures: Venture Capital for Big Data - May 3, 2010.
  IA Ventures was founded on the belief that managing and extracting value from massive, occasionally unstructured, often real-time data sets is a competitive advantage.
• Attensity buys Biz360 social media monitoring company - Apr 30, 2010.
  Attensity hopes this move will give it an edge in the social CRM (consumer relationship management) and analytics game.
• Jerome Friedman elected to US National Academy of Sciences - Apr 30, 2010.
  Prof. Jerome Friedman is a leading researcher in statistics and data mining
• One Billion Euros to Unleash the Power of Information - Apr 30, 2010.
  The project aims to assemble expertise across the whole spectrum of science -- from physics, computer science, environmental science and economics through psychology, ecology and sociology -- to develop supercomputing facilities and large-scale laboratories for a new kind of data-rich social science on which intelligent future policies can be based
• Gartner report: BI Grows Despite Economic Woes - Apr 29, 2010.
  Business intelligence, analytics and performance management prove less cyclical than other software areas, recording healthy growth in 2009

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• Human Computation Workshop , due May 7
• Ubiquitous Data Mining Workshop, due May 7
• Mining and Learning with Graphs 2010, due May 7
• Mining Ubiquitous And Social Environments, due Jun 21
• Context-Aware Recommender Systems, due Jun 28
• ICDM '10, due Jul 2

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