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Data Mining / Analytic News, Aug 2011


 
  
  • New Poll: What do you call data mining? - Aug 30, 2011.
    Is it Business Analytics, BI, Data Science, Data Mining, KDD / Knowledge Discovery, Predictive Analytics, Statistics or something else? Please vote
  • Top news for Aug 21-27 - Aug 28, 2011.
    Poll Results: Top Languages for Data Mining/Analytics; The New Big Data;
    Top jobs: Research Internships at Yandex, Moscow, Russia; Big Data and Machine Learning Engineer at State, London, UK;
  • Top news for Aug 14-20 - Aug 21, 2011.
    Poll Results: Top Languages for Data Mining/Analytics; Radoop ~ Yahoo Pipes for Hadoop; Gartner "Hype Peak" for Social Analytics
    Top jobs: Statistical Analyst/Data Modeler at Quicken Loans; Data Analyst at eHarmony
  • SIGKDD 2011 Innovation Award Winner - Aug 16, 2011.
    Dr. Ross Quinlan for his seminal contributions to rule induction and decision tree algorithms and for participating in laying the foundation of data mining, particularly with the invention of ID3 and C4.5
  • SIGKDD 2011 Service Award Winner - Aug 16, 2011.
    Dr. Bharat Rao is the winner of its 2011 Service Award for his contributions to society and the data mining community.
  • Poll Results: Top Languages for Data Mining/Analytics - Aug 16, 2011.
    R (used by 45%), SQL (32%), and Python (25%) are top languages for data mining/data analysis. A typical data miner uses 2 languages.
  • Top news for Aug 7-13 - Aug 14, 2011.
    Sex, Lies and Data Mining; Machine Learning 202; DM exempt from UK copyright laws
    Top jobs: Data Analytics Specialist at BP, Houston, TX, USA; Predictive Modeling and Data Mining Scientists/Analysts at Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign, Chicago, IL;
  • Top news for Jul 31 - Aug 6 - Aug 7, 2011.
    New Poll: What Languages you used for data mining; Introduction to AI (free online course);
    Top jobs: Predictive Modeling/Data Mining Scientists at Obama 2012 Campaign; Sr. Software Engineer, AI, Machine learning, NLP at Amazon
  • New Poll: What Languages you used for data mining - Aug 2, 2011.
    Please vote on www.kdnuggets.com or here
  • Top news, jobs in July - Aug 1, 2011.
    Obama Builds Data Team; Book: Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Techniques;
    Top jobs: Predictive Modeling, Data Mining at Obama 2012 Campaign; Director of Analytics Solutions at Predixion Software, TeleCommute.
  • Additions to KDnuggets in July - Aug 1, 2011.
    New companies, education, meetings, publications, software

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