KDnuggets™ News 12:n12, May 17

Features (7) | Courses, Events (1) | Webcasts (1) | Software (1) | Jobs (6) | Academic (1) | Competitions (3) | Meetings (1) | Publications (2) | NewsBriefs (2) | CFP (12) | Quote

Features

• New Poll: Analytics, Data Mining, Big Data Software Used? - May 16, 2012.
  New, largest ever, KDnuggets Poll: What analytics, data mining, Big Data software you used in the past 12 months ? Please vote
• Is There Big Money in Big Data? - May 11, 2012.
  Many entrepreneurs foresee vast profits in mining data from online activity and mobile devices. One Wharton business school professor strongly disagrees.
• Text Analytics Summit, June 12-13: NASA shares insights on analyzing really big (unstructured) data - May 15, 2012.
  NASA shares insights on analyzing really big (unstructured) data at Text Analytics Summit, June 12-13, Boston. Discount for KDnuggets readers.
• Predictive Analytics World Chicago (Jun 25-26) - experts from top companies - KDnuggets discount - May 16, 2012.
  Listen to experts from top companies, including Allstate, BBC, eBay, HP, Mazda, Microsoft. Attend over 40 sessions, hands-on workshops. Network with peers and top solution providers, and much more, and save with KDnuggets discount.
• Video Series: Big Data and Predictive Analytics - May 16, 2012.
  Watch this video series to learn more about Predictive Analytics Drivers & Benefits, Operationalizing Analytics, Predictive Analytics in the Cloud, and more.
• White Paper: 7 Reasons You Need Predictive Analytics - May 14, 2012.
  Download this white paper today and discover how you can gain strategic insights about your customers, integrate social data and text analytics, achieve greater relevancy by way of more precisely targeted marketing, and more. Get it now.
• Top news for May 6-12: New online certificates in Data Mining; Largest dataset analyzed - May 13, 2012.
  Stanford: New Online Certificates in Data Mining, Stats; Poll Results: Largest Dataset Analyzed; Analytics to predict crime?
  Top jobs: Researchers at Huawei Noah Ark Lab, Hong Kong; Analytics Solutions Architect at Predixion Software, telecommute.

Courses, Events

• Online Master of Science in Predictive Analytics at Northwestern - May 15, 2012.
  Northwestern MS in Predictive Analytics program can be the path to a promising new leadership career for professionals in virtually any industry.

Webcasts

• Skytree Webinar (May 30): Exploring The Universe with Machine Learning - May 16, 2012.
  Learn how Canadian astronomers are using Skytree high performance and scalable machine learning system in the cloud.

Software

• Yottamine Analytics in the Cloud - May 15, 2012.
  Yottamine Analytics delivers fast, accurate predictive models by combining the high scalability of cloud computing with advanced predictive analytics.

Jobs

• Sr. Statistical Analyst, Product Innovation at Netflix, Los Gatos, CA - May 16, 2012.
  A talented statistical analyst to help us optimize our product, an excellent opportunity if you excel in analytic disciplines and are passionate about delighting customers.
• Senior Data Scientist at Netflix, Los Gatos, CA - May 16, 2012.
  An outgoing, curious, interdisciplinary data expert to work as a statistician, data miner, and business analyst across many areas, including financial, operational, web, and consumer behavior.
• Scientist, Predictive Analytics at Playdom/Disney Interactive Media Group, Palo Alto, CA - May 15, 2012.
  Work with engineers and business owners to prototype and deploy algorithms and quantitative models to improve monetization and operating efficiency across multiple areas of games business
• Business Intelligence Analyst at Sybron Dental Specialties, Anaheim, CA - May 14, 2012.
  Are you an innovative and analytical thinker with who loves working directly with users to create business solutions with data? If so, we want to speak with you about an exciting career opportunity!
• Data Modeling/Management Specialist at InGrain, Houston, TX - May 12, 2012.
  InGrain is commercializing ground breaking technology to provide rock properties by numerical simulation, and provides oil and gas companies with comprehensive and accurate measurements of reservoir rock properties.
• Sales Strategy & Operations Analyst at Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Stamford, CT - May 10, 2012.
  Help drive sales strategy, customer-facing initiatives, and performance management support across the global Starwood Sales Organization; support leadership team with data analysis to solve business problems.

Academic/Research positions

• PhD positions: Interactive Storytelling, Mining of User Generated Content at KU Leuven, Belgium - May 14, 2012.
  Two open PhD positions towards a PhD in Engineering Computer Science at KU Leuven, Belgium, financed for 4 years by prestigious projects. Apply by May 21.

Competitions

• Challenge: Identify Private vs. Public Information on Massive Scale - May 14, 2012.
  Propose a trustworthy mechanism to distinguish private vs. public information in a massive stream of online information. Deadline: May 21
• Crowdanalytix contest: Predicting the Euro 2012 Soccer (Football) Winners - May 11, 2012.
  Develop an algorithm that can predict the ranking & outcome of each of the participating nations playing in the Euro 2012 Soccer (Football) championship.
• VAST Challenge 2012: Big Data Visualization - May 10, 2012.
  How do you visualize a network with 1M computers so that you can perceive its state and identify problems? How to identify unusual events occuring in one of regional offices?

Meetings

• May 24-25: Salford Analytics and Data Mining Conference: Visa, Capital One, more - May 12, 2012.
  In-Flight Scoring, Fraud Detection, Transformation Prediction - Don't miss Visa and Capital One at the Salford Analytics and Data Mining Conference!

Publications

• Top KDnuggets tweets, May 11-15: DS Hackathon; Genome Platform; Action vs Hackers - May 16, 2012.
  Data Science Hackathon in NYC; Yahoo Genome Platform; "Machine Learning in Action" vs "Machine Learning for Hackers"; and more.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, May 7-10: 2-minute R tutorials; Tawlk: Real-time search of social media - May 11, 2012.
  Including 90 two-minute R tutorials, Tawlk: new tool for real-time search of social media, "Analyzing Big Data with Twitter" course at UC Berkeley, and more.

News Briefs

• Relevant Data names Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro to Scientific Advisory Board - May 16, 2012.
  Relevant Data names predictive analytics expert Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ph.D., senior technology strategist to Scientific Advisory Board. Relevant Data proprietary search and analytics platform monitors big data streams in real-time.
• Yahoo Genome Platform, a Big Data online advertising solution - May 15, 2012.
  Yahoo! Genome Platform as nothing to do with genomics and everything with advertising - it combines Yahoo! data with interclick third party data and advertisers first party data.

CFP - Calls for Papers

• Sensor-KDD: Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data , due May 22
• DATA ANALYTICS 2012: The First Int. Conference on Data Analytics, due May 24
• IDAMAP 2012: Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology, due May 30
• ACM-BCB 2012: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine , due Jun 7
• IEEE ICDM 2012: The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, due Jun 18
• CARS-2012: Context-Aware Recommender Systems, due Jun 18
• DTMBIO 12: Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics, due Jun 29
• ECML PKDD W-Sep28: ECML PKDD 2012 Workshops (monday), due Jun 29
• ECML PKDD W-Sep28: ECML PKDD 2012 Workshops (monday), due Jun 29
• SENTIRE: Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction, due Aug 10
• PinSoDa 2012: Privacy in Social Data, due Aug 10
• DPADM: Int. Workshop on Discrimination and Privacy-Aware Data Mining, due Aug 10

Quote

I was surprised that domain insight wasn't necessary to win the [24-hour Data Science] hackathon, Ben Hamner

datasciencehackathon.com/winners/