KDnuggets™ News 11:n26, Nov 2

Features (4) | Courses, Events (1) | Software (3) | Jobs (10) | Academic (1) | Competitions (2) | NewsBriefs (5) | CFP (6) | Quote

Features

• Big data mining, fairness and privacy - Oct 27, 2011.
  A vision statement towards an interdisciplinary roadmap of research
• Top news, jobs in October - Nov 1, 2011.
  Judge forbids use of Bayes Theorem. Really?; Beginning ML/NL Classes, Bay area; Data Mining Ontology Foundry;
  Top jobs: Data Mining Scientist at Apple; Research Scientist - KR at IBM Research, Dublin.
• Additions to KDnuggets in Oct - Nov 1, 2011.
  New companies, datasets, education, meetings, publications, software, solutions, websites
• Top news for Oct 23-29 - Oct 30, 2011.
  Data mining tools review - update; Big data mining, fairness and privacy; New Poll: Methods/algorithms used in 2011;
  Top jobs: Faculty, Information Systems at U. of Waterloo; Algo. Dev. Scientist at Biodesix, Steamboat Springs, CO;

Courses, Events

• Blogging the Stanford Machine Learning Class, week 2 - Oct 28, 2011.
  The adventures of Slate writer in the The lazy hiker world (known to nerds as gradient descent algorithm)

Software

• R Cookbook with examples - Oct 31, 2011.
  dozens of examples on accessing databases, reading and writing data, date/time, graphics, spatial data and more.
• Datafiniti offers Web Data via SQL - Oct 28, 2011.
  instead of links, Datafiniti web search return a set of data. With the Datafiniti API, developers can now integrate that data into web applications.
• A Closer Look at Oracle Big Data Appliance - Oct 27, 2011.
  The Big Data appliance in more detail: what the make-up of the machine is, what software we are putting on the machine and how it integrates with the Exadata machines.

Jobs

• Manager, Client Analytics at Edward Jones, St. Louis, MO - Oct 31, 2011.
  use their data mining/predictive analytic skills to determine new and emerging trends on the needs of our clients, collaborating with subject matter experts throughout the firm to determine future service and product offerings.
• Manager, Stat Modeling and Data Mining at Cricket Communcations, Denver, CO - Oct 28, 2011.
  responsible for detailed subscriber level behavior analysis using the appropriate statistical techniques.
• Web Crawling & Data Collection Project Lead at Datafiniti, Houston, TX - Oct 28, 2011.
  Join our company and help build the world's first search engine for data. We're seeking a motivated person to lead various efforts on client projects and data collection.
• Algorithm Development Scientist at Biodesix, Steamboat Springs, CO - Oct 27, 2011.
  join a personalized medicine company focused on the development of diagnostic products that inform treatment decisions and improve patient care.
• Sr. Business Systems Analyst - Statistical Analyst (AML) at PNC, Pittsburgh, PA - Oct 27, 2011.
  responsible for the continual optimization of the Mantas and tactical AML scenarios employed by the AML Surveillance group to monitor transactional activity relative to Anti-money laundering.
• Sr. Principal Engineer (Oracle PL/SQL developer) at advanced analytics company, Alexandria, VA - Oct 27, 2011.
  developer and team lead that can design, tune and develop packages, procedures and functions to perform database activities on behalf of mid-tier applications, for DB exceeding 1TB.
• Semantic Engineer - Advanced Analytics Consulting at advanced analytics company, Alexandria, VA - Oct 27, 2011.
  experienced, detail-oriented software engineer to join a small independent team responsible for building forecast models and developing advanced algorithms to perform network based search and text extraction through entity resolution.
• Quantitative Modeler at advanced analytics company, Alexandria, VA - Oct 27, 2011.
  experienced, detail-oriented statistician to join a small independent team supporting a government program office
• Quantitative Manager - Advanced Analytics Consulting at advanced analytics company, Alexandria, VA - Oct 26, 2011.
  be part of a small independent team performing analysis, implementation and support for a large federal agency. Must be an experienced, detail-oriented statistician and will be required to be a self-starter with demonstrated experience using SAS and SQL and strong experience leading teams.
• GIS Principal Analyst (ERSI ArcGIS) at advanced analytics company, Alexandria, VA - Oct 26, 2011.
  seeking an ESRI ArcGIS developer responsible to design and develop geospatial solutions. Play an integral role within an analytic team to develop GIS-based maps from a variety of data sources and perform analysis on spatial data

Academic/Research positions

• Research Positions in Software Agents for Model Based Diagnosis at Royal Holloway U. of London, Egham, Surrey, UK - Nov 1, 2011.
  design, build, and validate an intelligent system for the analysis of multi-parametric medical data about diabetes and cardio-vascular disease.

Competitions

• Strategy to Assimilate Unstructured Information - Oct 31, 2011.
  How can a large quantity of data from diverse sources be used to make predictions or inform decision-making efforts? This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution.
• Allstate's Claim Prediction Challenge Nets Insights - Oct 29, 2011.
  Crowdsourcing competition yields predictive modeling on injury claims based on vehicle characteristics.

News Briefs

• Sybase Big Data Analytics With Native MapReduce and Hadoop Integration - Nov 1, 2011.
  expands support for in-database analytics, including a native MapReduce API, PMML support, integration with Hadoop, and an expanded library of statistical and data mining algorithms that leverage MPP technology
• New technology pinpoints anomalies in complex financial data - Oct 31, 2011.
  Battelle-developed Anomalator(tm) - which tracks performance, monitors risk and detects scams - is now licensed to V-INDICATOR ANALYTICS
• IBM Beats Oracle, Microsoft With Big Data Leap - Oct 29, 2011.
  Hadoop-based InfoSphere BigInsights platform goes live on SmartCloud infrastructure, beating Oracle and Microsoft to market.
• Hiring of analytical talent will rise in 2012, say SAS, Accenture - Oct 27, 2011.
  More than half of companies surveyed will invest in business analytics as skills gap is revealed
• SAS(r) High-Performance Analytics: Big data answers in minutes - Oct 26, 2011.
  available in mid-December, SAS High-Performance Analytics handles terabytes of data in near-real time on a designated Teradata or EMC Greenplum database appliance.

CFP - Calls for Papers

• ADMC-2012 : Salford Analytics and Data Mining Conference, due Nov 4
• IndCDM-12: Industrial Conf. on Data Mining ICDM 2012, due Dec 12
• MLDM-12: Int. Conf. on Machine Learning and Data Mining, due Dec 12
• KDD-12W: KDD-2012 Workshop Proposals, due Jan 15
• TIST-SWM-12: Social Web Mining, due Feb 1
• KDD-2012: 18th ACM SIGKDD Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, due Feb 10

Quote

This month is for the "binary" fans: 11/1/11 - first unary day; 10/11/11 - binary day; 11/11/11 - the ultimate unary day of the century.