KDnuggets™ News 11:n19, Aug 3

Features (5) | Courses, Events (1) | Software (1) | Jobs (4) | Competitions (1) | Meetings (1) | Publications (3) | NewsBriefs (4) | CFP (6) | Quote

Features

• New Poll: What Languages you used for data mining - Aug 2, 2011.
  Please vote on www.kdnuggets.com or here
• Predictive Analytics World Government, Sep 12-13, Wash. DC - Aug 1, 2011.
  Congressman Darrell Issa, R-CA, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has joined the powerful line-up of keynotes and featured speakers at Predictive Analytics World for Government with his keynote: "Fighting Waste, Fraud and Abuse with DATA"
• 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
• 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

Courses, Events

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (free online course) - Aug 2, 2011.
  the online version of Stanford course Intro to AI - enroll (for free) and learn about AI from two of the pioneers in the field.

Software

• JT on IBM In-Database Analytics - Aug 2, 2011.
  three main features: SQL Pushback, direct access to DB analytic modeling routines and model deployment/scoring options help achieve in-database execution.

Jobs

• Research/Machine Learning Engineer at Fwix, San Francisco, CA - Jul 28, 2011.
  Fwix organizes the web by location - developing geotagging technology to automatically identify physical locations referenced in online content.
• Data Mining Scientist at TidalTV, Baltimore, MD - Jul 28, 2011.
  support data mining efforts as a member of the Research and Development team. Our mission is to provide our clients with the ability to target their advertisements to exactly the right person.
• Statistical Data Analyst at Semcasting, Andover, MA - Jul 27, 2011.
  seeking hands-on applied statistical analysts with strong SAS programming, campaign mgmt, good communication skills; Web 2.0 technologies a plus.
• Analytical Modeling Staff Scientist at SAS, San Diego, CA - Jul 27, 2011.
  analyze customer data and build high-end analytical models for solving high-value business problems, such as credit card fraud, credit risk, network security, tax fraud detection, and revenue and collections optimization.

Competitions

• Dunnhumby's Shopper Challenge - Aug 1, 2011.
  better predict when supermarket shoppers will next visit the store and how much they will spend.

Meetings

• Analytics 2011: Blazing new frontiers for innovation - Jul 28, 2011.
  explore the latest trends and techniques in data mining, text analytics, forecasting, optimization, visualization and predictive modeling at The SAS Analytics 2011 Conference, October 24-25, Orlando.

Publications

• Interviewing Data Miners and Modelers - Aug 2, 2011.
  Tim Graettinger on his approach to interviewing data miners and modelers.
• SIGKDD 2011 to Honor Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations - Jul 31, 2011.
  Michael Hay won for "Enabling Accurate Analysis of Private Network Data"; Runner up is Tianyi Wu, for "A Framework for Promotion Analysis in Multi-Dimensional Space". The award is for outstanding research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.
• Singapore Picks a Winner in Analytics - Jul 29, 2011.
  Tom Davenport on launching the Deloitte Analytics Institute in Singapore, and Singapore investment in Analytics.

News Briefs

• Designing a better crystal ball - Aug 2, 2011.
  National crowdsourcing project to better predict world events
• SAP, Google integrate Enterprise Analytics and Maps - Aug 2, 2011.
  bring together business analytics software and location-based data capabilities to help users make better business decisions.
• SocialNuggets launches portal analyzing data on tablet usage - Jul 29, 2011.
  free data analysis on tablet usage , based on millions of tweets, blog posts and other online content.
• Low-Cost Options For Predictive Analytics Challenge SAS, IBM - Jul 27, 2011.
  Revolution Analytics, Alpine Data Labs step up the competition against market leaders.

CFP - Calls for Papers

• PADM 2011: Privacy Aspects of Data Mining , due Aug 5
• ESANN 2012: European Symposium on Artificial NN, Computational Intelligence and ML, due Aug 15
• CIDASD: Computational Intelligent Data Analysis for Sustainable Development, Chapter proposals, due Aug 15
• WIN 2011: The Workshop on Information in Networks, due Aug 20
• SDM 12: SIAM Conf. on Data Mining, due Oct 14
• CARS-2011: 3rd Workshop On Context-Aware Recommender Systems, due Jul 25

Quote

"The question is, what is noise and what is real?" said Dr. Steven Goodman, a biostatistician at Johns Hopkins University. In these studies, he added, "you are guaranteed to find things," and almost always what is found is nonsense.

New York Times, July 19, 2011