- Top news for Jul 24-30 - Jul 31, 2011.
Obama Builds Data Team; Poll: Text analytics use grows steadily;
Top jobs: Predictive Modeling and Data Mining Scientists at Obama 2012 Campaign; Microsoft Data Mining/Stats/Analytics hiring at KDD-2011
- Poll results: Text analytics use grows steadily - Jul 25, 2011.
fewer people did not use text analytics vs 2 years ago, and more respondents (21.5% vs 14%) used them in over half of the projects.
- Top news for Jul 17-23 - Jul 24, 2011.
Obama Builds Data Team; Microsoft Daytona big-data analytics.
Top jobs: Predictive Modeling/DM Scientists/Analysts at Obama 2012, Chicago; Data Mining Researcher at Motorola.
Most tweeted: Obama Builds Data Team; Data Analysis Contest Using R
- Most viewed items for Jul 10-16 - Jul 17, 2011.
Analytic positions at Obama 2012 Campaign; A Random Algor. Library for DM; New Poll: Text Analytics Use?;
Top jobs: Analytic positions at Obama 2012 Campaign; SW Engineer, Data Analytics/Modeling at Guardian Analytics;
Most tweeted: Analytic positions at Obama 2012 Campaign; Ben Shneiderman on Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
- New Poll: Text Analytics Use? - Jul 12, 2011.
How much did you use text analytics in the past 12 months and how much do you plan to use over the next 12 months? Please vote
- Poll results: Vacation length by region - Jul 12, 2011.
The European data miners have longest vacation of 4.3 weeks (avg), while Latin Americans have the shortest. Interestingly, academic researchers report shorter vacation time than ones in the industry.
- Most viewed items for Jul 3-9 - Jul 10, 2011.
New Book: Data Mining: Concepts ...; Distr. Evo. Algs Python library (DEAP);
Top jobs: Data Mining Analyst at Waterfront International, Toronto; Statistician/Algorithms Scientist at Guardian Analytics, Los Altos, CA;
- Most viewed news, jobs in June - Jul 8, 2011.
LexisNexis open-sources its Hadoop killer; What do Data Miners Need to Learn?
Top jobs: Scientist, Predictive Analytics at Disney Interactive; Data Analyst - Windows Live Intelligence at Microsoft
- Additions to KDnuggets Directory in June - Jul 8, 2011.
New datasets, education, meetings, publications, software, solutions, websites
- Most viewed items for Jun 26 - Jul 2 - Jul 5, 2011.
Supreme Court strikes ban on pharma data mining; Dark matter in a new light with competition;
Top jobs: Statistician/Algorithms Scientist at Guardian Analytics; Data Ops Engineer at WaPo Labs.
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