KDnuggets™ News 10:n16, Jul 7

Features

• Attend KDD-2010, Washington, DC, July 25-28 - Jul 6, 2010.
  Wash. DC, July 25-28 is the place for the world's leading Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference, KDD-2010.
• Most viewed items for week starting Jun 27, 2010 - Jul 6, 2010.
  Who will win 2010 FIFA World Cup?; The Popularity of Data Analysis Software;
  Top jobs: Data Mining Scientist at Apple, Austin, TX; Statistical Analyst at Netflix, Los Gatos, CA;
• 2010 UCSD data mining contest - Jul 1, 2010.
  The contest consists of two classification tasks based on data from an e-commerce website. The contest is sponsored by FICO, with $10000 in prizes.
• They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It) - Jul 5, 2010.
  Everyone wants to think they're smarter than the poor souls in developing countries, and smarter than their predecessors. They're wrong. And we can prove it.

Courses (see also All Courses)

• Learn How Experts Mine Data in Denver, CO or Washington, DC - Jul 6, 2010.
  The Modeling Agency vendor-neutral Predictive Analytics & Data Mining Course Series is scheduled for Aug 23 - 27 ( Denver, CO) and Oct 4 - 8 in Washington, DC
• TMA Restructured Course Series Present a new Approach - Jul 6, 2010.
  The series now has two primary orientations: Model Development to drill into model-building tactics and methods; and Strategic Implementation for project design and discovering what really works
• Put your Data to Work with Advanced Analytics - Jul 6, 2010.
  Attend Advanced Analytics for Customer Intelligence Using SAS(r) and discover how you can adopt state-of-the-art data mining techniques for complex customer intelligence applications. Aug 23-25, San Francisco; Sep - Cary, NC; Oct - M2010; Dec - Dallas.
• Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Sept. 13-14, Charlottesville, VA - Jul 6, 2010.
  a practical, experience-based, concepts course, known for demystifying data mining with clarity and humor. Learn to isolate the essential aspects of a problem and select and combine appropriate software tools to find useful patterns in noisy, incomplete data.

Webcasts (see also All Webcasts)

• Data Mining: Failure to Launch [ Free Webinar ] - Jul 6, 2010.
  Attend this free webinar to learn how to get started with data mining and overcome both strategic and tactical limitations that cause data mining projects to fall short of their potential.

Software (see also All Software)

• UMD develops Fastest Program to Find Patterns in Social Networks - Jul 1, 2010.
  a key insight - it is possible to split the social network into a set of almost independent, relatively small sub-networks, each of which is stored on a computer in a cloud computing cluster in such a way that the probability that a query pattern will need to access two nodes is kept as small as possible.

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Scientist at ID Analytics, San Diego, CA - Jul 2, 2010.
  part of a team responsible for the development of the company's advanced technologies particularly to do with statistical score modeling, score model development, score model deployment, large scale database analysis and statistical algorithms.
• Senior Statistical Analyst, Measurement Science at The Nielsen Company, Schaumburg, IL - Jun 30, 2010.
  Nielsen Media tracks TV and media-viewing habits of homes across the country. Our data, which influences virtually every TV program in the U.S., shows not only what's being watched, but paints a rich portrait of the American Audience.
• Software/Algorithms Engineer at Efficient Frontier, Sunnyvale, CA - Jun 30, 2010.
  knowledge of statistical modeling concepts needed to develop and deploy large-scale online ad targeting system. Efficient Frontier is a leading provider of cross channel performance optimization platform across search and display advertising.

Publications

• Geek Speak: Avi Bryant, Twitter analytics team - Jul 5, 2010.
  Interview with co-founder of Smallthought Systems, recently acquired by Twitter for its analytics and Dabble DB.
• Genetic Finding May Provide a Test for Longevity - Jul 1, 2010.
  Scientists studying the genomes of centenarians found a set of genetic variants that predicts extreme longevity with 77 percent accuracy.

News Briefs

• Very quick start for INFORMS Data Mining Contest - Jul 1, 2010.
  in only one week, more than 215 participants already registered to INFORMS Data Mining Contest and 21 competitors already submitted theirs solutions with amazing result
• Dublin non-profit Centre of Excellence in Advanced Analytics - Jul 6, 2010.
  the official launch of the Analytics Institute and its first pilot programme between Irish government departments and University College Dublin.
• M-Factor Awarded Patent for Core Technology of Predictive Analytics Platform - Jul 5, 2010.
  covering the M-Factor PrOLAP(r) Predictive Analytics Server which is a uniquely scalable and adaptable scenario analysis system.
• Data warehousing shifts to analytics arms race - Jul 1, 2010.
  Performance upgrades and in-database functions highlight latest Netezza, Aster Data and Infobright releases
• SAS playing strong in advanced analytics - Jul 1, 2010.
  IDC: SAS market share was more than twice the 2nd largest software vendor in the advanced analytics market

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• Knowledge Discovery from Climate Data: Prediction, Extremes, And Impacts, due Jul 23
• Workshop On Self-Organizing Maps, due Jan 14
• Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2011, due Feb 1
• MLDM 2011, due Feb 1

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