KDnuggets™ News 10:n18, Aug 4

Features

• New Poll: Do you prefer to analyze Social Networks or participate? - Aug 3, 2010.
  At KDD-2010 social networks analysis was a hot topic, yet few attendees participated in the conference social network. Are data miners less social ?
• Poll Results: Data types analyzed - Aug 3, 2010.
  tables, time-series still top; highest growth in social networks and ...
• KDNuggets.com is the #1 data mining site - Aug 3, 2010.
  according to Analyticbridge members
• Most viewed news, jobs in July - Aug 3, 2010.
  The Most Comprehensive Social Media Analytics Platform List; teach yourself datamining in 21 days;
  Top jobs: Knowledge Analyst at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Purchase, NY; Predictive Modeler/Data Mining Scientist at Humana, Louisville, KY;
• Two new Predictive Analytics World events Announced - Aug 3, 2010.
  PAW will take place in London, UK, Nov 15-16, 2010, and in San Francisco at the Marriott Marquis, March 14-15, 2011. Speaker proposals are being sought.
• M2010 Data Mining Conference - Aug 3, 2010.
  30% Discount to KDnuggets subscribers! Hundreds of analytics professionals and more than 40 speakers will attend M2010. Learn techniques to give your company a competitive edge.
• Most viewed items for week July 25-31 - Aug 1, 2010.
  Most Comprehensive Social Media Analytics Platforms; Teach yourself datamining in 21 days;
  Top jobs: Data Mining Expert - Online Advertising at Resonate Networks; Sr Manager, Strategic Analytics at SIRIUS XM Radio;
• Most viewed items for week July 18-24 - Jul 26, 2010.
  Poll Results: Octopus wins World Cup Prediction Competition; New Poll: Types of Data Analyzed/Mined in the past 12 months;
  Top jobs: Principal Machine Learning Engineer at eBay, San Jose, CA; Computational Advertising Scientist at Akamai, Cambridge, MA;

Courses (see also All Courses)

• Learn How Experts Mine Data in Denver, CO or Washington, DC - Aug 3, 2010.
  Save up to 50% on registrations thru Aug 6 for Aug 23-27 (Denver) Predictive Analytics & Data Mining Course Series
• Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Sep 13-14, Charlottesville, VA - Aug 2, 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.

Software (see also All Software)

• The Most Comprehensive Social Media Analytics Platform List - Jul 24, 2010.
  including Abel Creative, ActValue, Alterian, Ape55, Ascent Labs, ASOMO, Asterisqs, Attensity, Attentio, BackType, Beevolve, Blogmeter, Brandchats, Brand Metric, Brandwatch, Buzzcapture, BuzzDetector ...
• Pervasive Software and KNIME.com Deliver Parallel Performance for Data Miners - Aug 2, 2010.
  a KNIME-certified plug-in that gives data miners access to high-throughput data operations and a parallel engine within the KNIME interface.
• Joke-generating computer goes global - Jul 31, 2010.
  What do you get when you cross humour with science? A joke-generating computer programme, created by U. Aberdeen scientists to help children develop their language skills

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Research Scientist - Data Mining & Machine Learning at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ - Aug 2, 2010.
  part of a team developing innovative data driven solutions that fuse distributed sources of data, perform large scale learning and reasoning, and integrate results in collaborative environments to support the business needs of Siemens companies in energy, industry, and healthcare
• Risk Forecasting Analyst at CashEdge, Sunnyvale, CA preferred (NY possible) - Jul 31, 2010.
  providing data mining support on risk management initiatives, including policies to control risks on daily ACH/EFT Internet transactions and consulting assistance to client financial institutions in establishing and monitoring their own risk criteria.
• Senior Manager, Strategic Analytics at SIRIUS XM Radio, New York, NY (Midtown) - Jul 27, 2010.
  SIRIUS XM Radio is America's satellite radio company delivering to subscribers commercial-free music channels, premier sports, news, talk, entertainment, and traffic and weather.
• Data Mining Expert - Online Advertising at Resonate Networks, Reston, VA - Jul 26, 2010.
  a data driven and rapidly growing online advertising company, is seeking a highly talented, creative and motivated Data Mining expert.
• Consultant at Accenture Technology Customer Labs, Chicago, IL and San Jose, CA - Jul 23, 2010.
  Our research and development team explores new and emerging technologies that are one to five years out, and uses them to create prototypes and cutting-edge solutions that will help organizations maximize performance in the future.
• Consultant at Accenture Technology, Enterprise Lab, San Jose, CA and Chicago, IL - Jul 23, 2010.
  develop, market and implement innovative solutions which change how information is used by organizations for insight and for driving outcomes. The candidate will be expected to contribute to the group's ongoing efforts in thought leadership, ideation, solution architecture, business case development and technology evaluation.
• Software Development Engineer, Personalization Platform at Amazon.com, Seattle, WA - Jul 22, 2010.
  The Personalization Platform team is responsible for developing recommender systems for Amazon subsidiaries and owned and operated properties such as IMDb, Audible and Endless. Every day, our goal is to surprise and delight our customers with relevant and serendipitous product recommendations.
• Statistical Modeler/Data Mining Consultant at Objectifi, Toronto, ON, Canada - Jul 21, 2010.
  Objectifi is a leader in strategic marketing consulting for inbound and outbound optimization and personalization. Responsibilities include analyzing large amounts of transactional data using data mining technique to determine the most predictive data attributes for marketing

Academic/Research positions

• Postdoc in data mining, text mining, SNA, and IR at Tufts University, Medford, MA - Jul 28, 2010.
  work directly with the Tufts machine learning group headed by Profs. Carla Brodley and Roni Khardon and researchers in Evidence Based Medicine and Biostatistics at the Medical School

Audio/Podcasts/Video

• Get to know Stacey, the savvy single - Jul 31, 2010.
  In part two of Marketplace series on data mining, Stacey Vanek Smith visits a data mining company and sees what they know about her through her credit card transactions, Facebook account... It's a lot.
• Data mining pushes marketing to a new level [Audio] - Jul 27, 2010.
  MarketPlace Public Radio on data mining in marketing, with comments from Bob Grossman, Andreas Weigend, and others.
• Mood, twitter, and the new shape of America [Video] - Jul 24, 2010.
  better weather seems to make you happier (or rather, that better weather is correlated with happier tweets): Florida and California seems to be consistently in a better mood than the remaining US.

Publications

• Book: Business Intelligence Success Factors - Aug 3, 2010.
  Olivia Parr Rud, an expert in data mining and BI, provides a roadmap for using more holistic practices in business such as collaboration, communication, innovation and evolutionary leadership.
• Worst Practices in Data Mining - Aug 3, 2010.
  No software, no matter how powerful, and no analyst, no matter how talented, can guarantee perfect (or even highly accurate) forecasts. Forecast accuracy is ultimately limited by the nature of the behavior being forecast
• Wired: Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring - Aug 2, 2010.
  The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time - and says it uses that information to predict the future.
• Social Media Analytics vs. Social Network Analysis - Aug 2, 2010.
  James Kobielus on the difference between the two
• Bringing Data Mining Into the Mainstream - Jul 31, 2010.
  Profitably probing large data sets remains an elite undertaking, costly for companies and difficult for users. To bring modern data-mining into the business mainstream, two things are needed.
• Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery: Novel Applications and New Techniques - Jul 28, 2010.
  edited by Bonchi & Ferrari. Covering General Techniques, Traces and Streams, Spatio-temporal and Mobility Data, Time Series, Biomedical Data, Web Usage Data, and Social Networks
• Christos Faloutsos KDD Innovation Award Talk - Jul 26, 2010.
  Data Mining is compression, and compression is undecidable, therefore ...
• There are no alternatives to data mining - Jul 23, 2010.
  we talk to Vladimir Nikulin, the winner of the Basic Track in RSCTC'2010 Discovery Challenge: Mining DNA microarray data for medical diagnosis and treatment
• World Programming System: An Alternative to SAS? - Jul 22, 2010.
  WPS is a SAS code interpreter, which is much cheaper. This post looks at some of the issues in using WPS to run SAS code.
• Statistical Analysis and Data Mining journal - Jul 22, 2010.
  Large-scale regression-based pattern discovery: The example of screening the WHO global drug safety database, and other papers from latest issue of this journal

News Briefs

• Zynga Stresses Visual Access to Its Vast Data Volumes - Aug 2, 2010.
  Zynga has over 230 million users monthly playing its games, like FarmVille and Mafia Wars. Ken Rudin, general manager of analytics for Zynga, discusses the challenges Zynga faced in getting meaningful insights to its analysts on several terabytes of game data captured daily.
• More powerful than ever, SAS(r) Analytics software fuels innovation - Aug 2, 2010.
  Announced at JSM, enhancements arm organizations with econometric, optimization and statistical capabilities that surface opportunities, mitigate risk and streamline business processes.
• U. of Utah: Data mining made faster: squashing multidimensional info - Jul 24, 2010.
  Venkatasubramanian and colleagues devised a new method of multidimensional scaling that is faster, simpler, can be used universally for numerous problems and can handle more data, basically by "squashing things [data] down to size."
• Memphis Cuts Crime With Predictive Analytics - Jul 24, 2010.
  reports 31% drop in crime rate to knowing when and where to put cops on the street.
• Safe Banking, Centrifuge Partner against Money Laundering, Terrorism, Fraud - Jul 23, 2010.
  Powerful combination of Centrifuge link analysis and SBS entity
• HHS unveils new health care fraud tool - Jul 22, 2010.
  Data mining will allow Florida's fraud unit to sort electronic claims through the use of statistical models and intelligent technologies to uncover patterns and relationships.

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• Workshop on Information in Networks , due Aug 5
• RapidMiner Community Meeting and Conference, due Aug 6
• Domain Driven Data Mining, due Aug 9
• ICDM '10 workshop proposals, due Aug 9
• Mining The Future Internet , due Aug 10
• Predictive Analytics World London, due Aug 13
• PAKDD-2011 Workshop Proposals, due Aug 29
• PAKDD 2011, due Sep 19
• PAW 2011 - San Francisco, due Oct 8
• SIAM Data Mining 11, due Oct 15

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