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• Research Scientist at OpenX, Pasadena, CA, USA - Sep 1, 2010.
  OpenX's Ad Server and Market analytic solutions. The research team is responsible for investigating, designing, prototyping, and reviewing analytic solutions in support of OpenX's Ad Server, Market, and other offerings. The research scientist will be responsible for one or more analytical assignments within a supportive environment.
• Think the Answer's Clear? Look Again - Sep 1, 2010.
  Scientist at Work: Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier. He can totally against intuition, and come up with a beautiful finding, such as using cell phones while driving increases collision risk 4-fold, and benefits from changing lanes are illusory.
• Research Scientist, Forecasting Team at Amazon.com, Seattle, WA - Sep 1, 2010.
  we develop sophisticated algorithms based on the latest statistics tools and data mining methodologies. You will have an opportunity to work on an incredibly complex mathematical problem, with a large element of unpredictability.
• Mind-Boggling: Deloitte Stumped By Low Awareness On Business Analytics - Sep 1, 2010.
  In a recent Deloitte poll, 33% of 1,900 technology executives and business professionals, either didn't know if their organization utilized business analytics - or even if they had business analytics capabilities at all.
• Location Determines Social Network Influence - Sep 1, 2010.
  Number of connections less important than proximity to core, according to CCNY team
• Additions to KDnuggets Directory since Aug 1 - Sep 1, 2010.
  new in companies, datasets, education, meetings, software, solutions, websites
• The Unica Story: Yuchun Lee's Journey from MIT Blackjack Team to IBM Acquisition - Sep 1, 2010.
  Because of his past, Yuchun Lee is legally barred from certain establishments. Luckily, IBM is not one of them.
• Predictive Modeler at Allstate Insurance Company, Menlo Park, CA and Northbrook, IL - Aug 31, 2010.
  apply economic, quantitative, statistical, and actuarial skills in the development of new pricing and financial models which contribute to Allstate's growth and profitability.
• Social media analytics - 2 new tools - Aug 31, 2010.
  As new tools develop that are free to use, it becomes harder for paid tools like Radian6 to justify their charges. There's just so many free tools out there that do a good job and make social analytics accessible for any size business.
• Trade Marketing Director/Retail Analytics Expert at ProPhase, Doylestown, PA - Aug 31, 2010.
  form insightful marketing recommendations from analyzing IRI, scanner and quantitative retail data. You see the story in the numbers. Determining the ROI and cost of doing business per channel is your strength.
• 5 indispensable IT skills of the future - Aug 31, 2010.
  Demand will be high for the ability to analyze BIG data, and also work with business units to define what data is needed and where to get it. #2 Skill: Understanding Risk.
• Tutorial by Christian Thurau about "Data Mining in Games" [Video] - Aug 31, 2010.
  Modern games are generating massive amounts of data that can help developers for tasks such as user modeling, behavior analysis, matchmaking, or playability testing. This tutorial will give some background on modern data mining techniques and explain its application to games.
• WordStat 6.1: new multilingual user interface, better linguistic support, faster - Aug 30, 2010.
  WordStat is a flexible content analysis and text mining tool that quickly extracts themes, trends and patterns from large collections of text. It can analyze documents in most human languages.
• Research Engineer - Targeting and Optimization at Amazon.com, Seattle, WA - Aug 30, 2010.
  outstanding Sr. Research Engineer to join the Targeting and Optimization team within Amazon.com's Display Advertising business
• Most viewed items for Aug 22-28 - Aug 30, 2010.
  Poll Results: half of SAS users consider switching; P != NP Proved?;
  Top jobs: Senior Manager or Manager - Statistician at Global consulting organization, 8 locations; Statistician, Ford Credit;
• New Google Service Will Decide For You - Aug 28, 2010.
  Google's service is particularly good at distinguishing between different languages
• To Data Mine or Not to Data Mine in the Fight Against Terrorism - Aug 27, 2010.
  The 2-day conference entitled Data Mining and Human Rights in the Fight Against Terrorism was held June 10-11, 2010 in Zurich. The organizers had previously conducted a study on data mining in the context of counter-terrorism, and this became the basis for the conference.
• Stopping crime before it starts - Aug 27, 2010.
  Sophisticated analysis of data can sometimes tell police where criminals are headed. LAPD plans to use such tools.
• SAS says it is not WPS victory - Aug 27, 2010.
  Court finds WPS Infringed on SAS Copyrights; refers case to European Court of Justice
• Start-up offers free social media analytics service - Aug 26, 2010.
  Viralheat offers Web users and publishers a limited slice of the data it collects from the social Web for paying customers
• Visual IQ Announces $3 Million Investment by Fog City Capital - Aug 26, 2010.
  Visual IQ provides software and services that help its clients turn data-driven insights into actions that deliver better returns on their marketing dollars,
• SAS(r) Text Analytics named Trend Setting Product for 2010 - Aug 26, 2010.
  SAS recognized for innovation and identifiable technology breakthrough
• Microsoft Top Three hottest new majors for a career in technology - Aug 26, 2010.
  They are Data Mining/ML/AI/NLP, Business Intelligence, Web Analytics/Statistics
• Analytics skills in demand - and analytics pros demanding top salaries - Aug 25, 2010.
  As more and more companies deploy predictive analytics tools and other data analytics software and begin filling the ranks of their analytics team, the pool of available talent is shrinking and hiring costs are growing
• Distributed Platform Engineer at Benefitfocus, Charleston, SC - Aug 25, 2010.
  original algorithm design, an understanding of Unix and performance issues, and the ability to work with our research and operations groups. The candidate must be able to contribute to the overall architecture of our product and take individual ownership of large components of the system
• Semantic Intelligence Engineer at Benefitfocus, Charleston, SC - Aug 25, 2010.
  focus on writing software for aggregating health benefits data from distributed sources via raw, linked data or other techniques; managing one or more stores of aggregated RDF data for distributed indexing, analysis, and visualization; and creating frameworks that will operate over massive distributed RDF stores
• Data Scientist at Benefitfocus, Charleston, SC - Aug 25, 2010.
  perform data analysis, develop algorithms and predictive models, and present technical information to a broad audience. You will apply algorithms and modeling tools to a variety of data, and develop critical solutions for multiple areas of business
• KDnuggets 10:n20, Almost half consider switching; 16 jobs; Geolocation - Aug 25, 2010.
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