KDnuggets™ News 11:n18, Jul 27

Features

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.
Obama Builds Data Team That Could Inform Digital Ads, Social - Jul 18, 2011.
Obama for America has been hiring data quants, and recently posted job openings for predictive modeling and data mining analysts, along with state data directors.
Nine analytics Workshops in NYC this October; PAW News - Jul 26, 2011.
deliver top notch analytical and business expertise across the hottest topics, at PAW and Text Analytics World, Oct 16-21, New York, NY
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
SAS Analytics 2011 Conference, Oct 24-25, Orlando - Jul 23, 2011.
Discount to KDnuggets readers on registration for SAS Analytics 2011 Conference. Listen to experts talk about data mining, forecasting, text analytics, fraud detection, predictive modeling, operations research and more.

Webcasts

Webinar: Data Mining: Failure to Launch - Jul 26, 2011.
Attend this free webinar on Aug 17 or Sep 27 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.
On-demand webinar: Trace Your Steps through Analytics - Jul 20, 2011.
showcases our Lavastorm Desktop Product and the data traceability features which allow you to create a complete analysis and trace your steps along the way.

Software

Microsoft offers scientists Daytona data analytics tool - Jul 21, 2011.
lets scientists run a variety of analytics and machine-learning algorithms on Windows Azure; frees scientists coding by giving them the ability to analyze their largest data collections.
ReVerb: Open Information Extraction Software - Jul 13, 2011.
extracts binary relationships like high-in(winter squash, vitamin c) without requiring any relation-specific training data

Jobs

Research Scientists at Thomson Reuters, New York, NY - Jul 26, 2011.
hiring experts in information retrieval, ML, NLP, and data mining. We work closely with business units to turn our voluminous data and content assets into intelligent information.
Microsoft hiring Data Mining/Statistical Analysis at KDD-2011 - Jul 25, 2011.
Bing and Ad teams will be at KDD and we'd love to talk to you about a career in data mining or statistical analysis.
Marketing Analyst at Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, OH (or anywhere within our Banking Footprint) - Jul 21, 2011.
Develop, design and analyze multifaceted direct marketing programs to drive improved results for lines of business (LOB).
AVP, Business Analytics at Fortune 500 Insurance Corp, Atlanta, GA - Jul 21, 2011.
lead the Business Analytics team to provide strategic thought leadership, coaching, mentoring, and talent development for the business analytics team to encourage continued progression and high performance
Sr. Technical Data Analyst at A9.com, Palo Alto, CA - Jul 20, 2011.
Hands-on analysis of large search/catalog data for driving business performance, forecasting, goal-setting, and product troubleshooting, in partnership with teams across Amazon and A9
Applied Researcher, Microsoft Adcenter at Microsoft, Bellevue, WA - Jul 20, 2011.
retrieve the most relevant information to users, provide a strong ROI for advertisers, and generate maximum value from search traffic - all at the same time, those are the team goals.
Data Analyst/SW Engineer at GETCO, Algorithmic Trading/Finance Firm, Chicago, IL - Jul 19, 2011.
Top financial firm is looking for a data analyst / software engineer to join its risk management team.
Director of Analytics Solutions at Predixion Software, TeleCommute - Jul 19, 2011.
Design, model, develop, support enterprise scale predictive analytics software solutions.
Data Mining Researcher at Motorola, Libertyville, IL - Jul 18, 2011.
advanced research in analytics for Motorola Mobility Applied Research Center; use advanced aspects of data mining, machine learning, and statistical natural language processing, involving large data sets from a variety of domains.
Analyst at 1010data, New York, NY - Jul 13, 2011.
create large-scale analytical solutions to client driven business problems, including designing high-performance databases and the corresponding operation and workflow processes
Predictive Modeling and Data Mining Scientists/Analysts at Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign, Chicago, IL - Jul 13, 2011.
analyze the campaign data to guide election strategy and develop quantitative, actionable insights that drive our decision-making. Looking for people at both the senior and junior level to join the campaign Analytics Dept through November 2012.

Academic/Research positions

Predictive Modeling and Data Mining Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA - Jul 25, 2011.
Predictive modeling of patients clinical outcomes based on the content of the electronic health record and building stochastic and knowledge based models to predict changes in the patients clinical status and predict prognosis.
PhD studentship at City U., London, UK - Jul 23, 2011.
working on the analysis of eye movements for detecting visual and neurological disorders. Training in bioinformatics, statistics, computer science or mathematics would be ideal.
Professor positions, Computer Science, Mathematical Statistics, Machine Learning, Large Scale Data Mining at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy - Jul 22, 2011.
working at the intersection between CS, physics, information theory, and mathematics, who combine a strong theoretical background with an orientation towards research on processing huge amounts of complex data in the analysis of socio economic, technical, or biological.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computational Statistics at U. of Guelph, Dept. of Math & Statistics, Guelph, ON, Canada - Jul 15, 2011.
implementation of novel mixture model-based techniques for clustering and classification that are being developed within the group. Join a vibrant research group which specializes in the development of novel clustering and classification methodologies.

Competitions

Data Analysis Contest Using R - Jul 18, 2011.
The goal: promote/improve the value of housing data from Nestoria, an online property search engine used by more than 2.5M visitors/month.
Kaggle: Claim Prediction Challenge - Jul 13, 2011.
predict Bodily Injury Liability Insurance claim payments based on the characteristics of the insured's vehicle.

Meetings

2011 IEEE ICDM Research Contributions and Outstanding Service Awards - Jul 25, 2011.
Nominations due August 15 for the Research Contributions Award (for influential research contributions to the field of data mining) and the Outstanding Service Award.
KDD-2011 News: Program and Schedule, Hotel - Jul 22, 2011.
The full program and posters are now available online, and hotel rooms are filling fast - register today!
Predictive Analytics World NYC Highlights - Jul 21, 2011.
Download conference preview guide for an in-depth look at the PAW's all-star speaker line up and array of case studies.
Salford Systems Training at JSM - Jul 13, 2011.
will focus on advances in tree-based modeling tools, data mining, predictive analytics and modeling automation technology. Combining CART, MARS, TreeNet and RandomForests data mining engines into a single suite allows the analyst to easily check and compare the performance of different data approaches in order to select the best one.

Publications

Time to start looking at treatment of data waste - Jul 25, 2011.
data waste management on computer systems could, and should be handled similarly to the way physical-world waste is managed.
INFORMS Analytics Magazine for July-August - Jul 15, 2011.
Read both the "how-to" and "what-not-to-do" stories. The cover story shows how to overcome the Big Data Dilemma by exploiting the raw material of the information economy.
Book: Business Intelligence Success Factors - Jul 14, 2011.
unveils the connection between the increased use of BI and the need for new, proven theories and models in BI, as well as the guidance to implement them successfully in your organization.

News Briefs

Ninja Metrics analyzes player behavior to enhance online gaming experience - Jul 26, 2011.
can analyze data to identify key traits among massive multiplayer online gaming communities to let game creators identify players psycho-social motivations and improve user experience.
SAS big analytics tackles big data, speeds analysis - Jul 26, 2011.
New capabilities simplify big data management and allow businesses to derive insights from all of their data, not just a sample. Companies like Expedia can now use their data in ways that were not previously possible.
Clario Analytics Launches Clario Core - Jul 24, 2011.
An out-of-the-box, cloud-based marketing analytics solution that puts actionable intelligence within reach of marketers
Vivisimo Receives U.S. Patent for Clustering System and Method - Jul 23, 2011.
Remix clustering provides emerging themes to the researcher, enabling faster knowledge discovery and exploration.
First Look - Modern Analytics - Jul 22, 2011.
started in 2001 by building analytical capabilities for a major bank in Europe; later expanded their analytic infrastructure, for which they hold a number of patents, to many other industries.
IBM rolls out cloud-based Web analytics tool - Jul 20, 2011.
New tool, product of Unica and Coremetrics acquisitions, links analytics from platforms including Web and social media with marketing efforts
Microsoft Wants To Eliminate Buyer's Remorse - Jul 19, 2011.
scans a large DB of product histories to predict which way the price of a piece of high-tech hardware will vary in the coming months.
SAS Celebrates 35 Years as an Analytic Innovator - Jul 17, 2011.
The world largest privately-held software company commemorates 35 years of continuous revenue, customer and employee growth
Big Data and the European Commission: CFP - Jul 15, 2011.
projects that develop and test new technologies to manage and exploit extremely large volumes of data, with real time capabilities are encouraged to apply for funding from European Commission.
DataSift Secures $6 Million in Funding - Jul 14, 2011.
DataSift reads social data sources, including Twitter, FB, and WP and lets users mine that data in a highly granular way.

CFP - Calls for Papers

CARS-2011: 3rd Workshop On Context-Aware Recommender Systems, due Jul 25
PADM 2011: Privacy Aspects of Data Mining , due Aug 5
CIDASD: Computational Intelligent Data Analysis for Sustainable Development, Chapter proposals, due Aug 15
WIN 2011: The Workshop on Information in Networks, due Aug 20

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