KDnuggets™ News 11:n04, Feb 2

Features

• New Poll: Will IBM "Watson" defeat human Jeopardy Champions? - Feb 1, 2011.
  Who will win: IBM Watson computer or Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two former Jeopardy champions? Please vote on www.kdnuggets.com. The match will take place on Feb 14, 2011.
• Additions to KDnuggets in January - Feb 1, 2011.
  New in companies, competitions, education, meetings, software, solutions, websites sections
• Poll Results: Analytics Role and Experience - Jan 31, 2011.
  20% of respondents were Analytics Managers, with 9.3 years avg experience, and 42% were Data Miner/ Analysts, with avg. experience of 8.3 years.
• Predictive Analytics World: Learn Uplift Modeling - Feb 1, 2011.
  Is uplift modeling on your radar? If not, it should be! Learn it at Predictive Analytics World, Mar 14-15 in San Francisco
• Most viewed items for Jan 23-29 - Jan 30, 2011.
  Defeating Machine Learning: The IJCNN Social Network Challenge results; Visualize your LinkedIn Map;
  Top jobs: VP, Predictive Modelling and Analytics at First Data, Melville, NY; Director Of Corporate And Institutional Relations at Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA;

Courses (see also All Courses)

• Learn How Experts Mine Data [Feb 14-18, Orlando; Apr 11-15, Las Vegas] - Feb 1, 2011.
  Leverage highly valuable and impactful prospective insight from within your existing data through an intensive course series with over 20 years of innovation. Feb 14-18 in Orlando; Apr 11-15 in Las Vegas.

Software (see also All Software)

• Matlab toolbox Gait-CAD for time series - Jan 31, 2011.
  The Matlab toolbox Gait-CAD is designed for the visualization and analysis of time series

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Manager, Data Analysis at Nexon, El Segundo, CA - Feb 1, 2011.
  Manage Data Analysis for the company, the MMOG Innovator. Showcase your quantitative skills, business judgment and creative thinking while determining new key metrics and measurement techniques/models that offer deeper business insight.
• Credit Decision Analytics, Modeling and Forecasting at Kohl's Department Stores, Menomonee Falls, WI - Jan 28, 2011.
  searching for Business Analysts/Senior Business Analysts to manage the credit scorecard model development lifecycle and more.
• Credit Decision Analytics - Account Management at Kohl's Department Stores, Menomonee Falls, WI - Jan 28, 2011.
  Manage all aspects of the credit card account lifecycle (credit line management, over limit authorizations, collections, fraud etc) and more.
• Senior Customer Analyst at Oriental Trading, Ralston, NE - Jan 28, 2011.
  develop ideas to increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve decision-support; provide analytical support to customer marketing efforts and educate and train Customer Analysts about statistical techniques and modeling methodology.
• Business Analyst at LivePerson, Atlanta, GA - Jan 26, 2011.
  work with our Professional Services account teams focused on measuring performance and optimization analysis of LivePerson deployments.
• Research Engineers at Yahoo! Labs within Barcelona Media, Barcelona, Spain - Jan 26, 2011.
  The Yahoo! Labs within Barcelona Media has various openings for research engineers in Barcelona, Spain. Yahoo! Labs is pioneering the new sciences underlying the web.

Academic/Research positions

• Postdoc Positions in Data Mining at U. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia - Jan 30, 2011.
  openings for two post-doctoral research fellows in the area of data mining, with a particular emphasis on data mining for time evolving networks.

Meetings (see also All Meetings)

• Predixion Software 18-City Seminars Showcasing Self-Service Predictive Analytics - Jan 26, 2011.
  18-city free seminars will demonstrate how to quickly and cost-effectively deliver self-service predictive analytics utilizing the Microsoft BI platform and Predixion's cloud-based predictive analytics solution.
• SDM'11: 2011 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining - Feb 1, 2011.
  Highlights include 4 plenary talks, 4 workshops, 5 tutorials, and 84 technical papers. Tutorials and workshops are complimentary with registration. Apr 28-30, Mesa, AZ, USA.
• KDD-2011 call for papers - Feb 1, 2011.
  Abstracts due Feb 11 for KDD-2011, 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Aug 21-24, 2011, in San Diego, CA http://www.kdd.org/kdd2011/
• SDM Doctoral Forum, Student Travel Scholarship - Jan 30, 2011.
  SDM 2011 student travel scholarships available for participants in the SDM Doctoral Forum and Student authors of SDM 2011 accepted papers

Audio/Video

• Polyvore.com uses data to track fashion trends - Feb 1, 2011.
  Polyvore.com tracks consumer choices to find what trends are on the rise, to help consumers and designers to predict fashion.

Publications

• Data Mining Research Interview: Stuart Shulman - Feb 1, 2011.
  For Texifter customers, the need to mine social media data is seamlessly fulfilled through the deployment Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in DiscoverText.
• Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Jan 28, 2011.
  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery features a unique hybrid publishing model that's as comprehensive as a major reference, as current as a journal, and much more.
• Mathematical Model Explains How Complex Societies Emerge, Collapse - Jan 28, 2011.
  The instability of large, complex societies is a predictable phenomenon, according to a new mathematical model that explores the emergence of early human societies via warfare.
• What Colour is Your Archive? - Jan 28, 2011.
  Text mining and visualization of records from London's Old Bailey prison using Mathematica.
• 2011: The Year of the Analytics Platform - Part I - Jan 27, 2011.
  What makes an Analytics Platform and how Aster Data massively parallel DB enables analytic processing

News Briefs

• EMC's Greenplum Offers 'big Data' Tools at No Charge - Feb 1, 2011.
  a community edition of Greenplum data warehousing platform, including algorithms and data mining tools for working with large data sets is available at no charge.
• Unhackable data in a box of bacteria - Jan 28, 2011.
  Students in Hong Kong found a way to securely and reliably store information using bacteria
• BlueKai Buys Ad Data Analytics And Optimization Startup TrackSimple - Jan 26, 2011.
  BlueKai, an online auction-based data exchange, bought TrackSimple, an analytics company that provides reporting, analysis and prediction services to media companies.
• Startup Uses Tweets to Predict Purchases - Jan 26, 2011.
  Viralheat Human Intent simplifies lead generation by helping businesses pinpoint social media users on the cusp of making purchasing decisions.

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• KDD-2011: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, due Feb 11
• IADIS 2011, due Feb 28
• ASONAM 2011, due Mar 1
• TIR'11, due Mar 30
• Learning Classifier Systems, due Apr 7

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