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• Pyriel learns classification rules which maximize AUC (open-source) - Mar 18, 2010.
  I previously published a paper "PRIE: A system for generating rulelists to maximize ROC performance" (Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, October, 2008). I have just released Pyriel, an open-source implementation of this system.
• Sports teams, leagues tap SAS® Analytics to boost profits - Mar 18, 2010.
  San Francisco 49ers, MLB.com, Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Hurricanes sign SAS®
• Kxen Webinar: Social Network Analysis, Apr 1 - Mar 18, 2010.
  Social Network Analysis can Boost your Marketing Performance! Your customers are telling you how to market more effectively - but are you listening?
• Centrifuge Releases New Data Visualization Software - Mar 18, 2010.
  The Centrifuge approach to data visualization brings together three innovations in analysis: Interactive Data Visualization, Unified Data Views and Collaborative Analysis to identify important insights and hidden patterns in your data.
• Moving On With Analytics - Mar 16, 2010.
  But about that first book, how did it hold up over time? Many speaking engagements later, Davenport sounded just a bit deflated at the overall progress, but not very much surprised.
• We're so good at medical studies that most of them are wrong - Mar 16, 2010.
  A survey of the recent medical literature found that 95 percent of the results of observational studies on human health had failed replication when tested using a rigorous, double blind trial. Given massive data sets and ability perform multiple tests, many researchers fall into trap of finding "significant" results which are due to random chance.
• Most viewed items for week Mar 7-13 - Mar 14, 2010.
  News: Stanford University online graduate education; Poll Results: Data Miner Salary by Region; Jobs: Statistician / Data Analyst at LoopNet, San Francisco, CA
• New Free Data Mining Tool for Game Developers - Mar 14, 2010.
  Game developers have a new tool in their arsenal courtesy of Jenkin’s Software, an instrumenting and data analysis suite called RakNet.
• Norman Nie: Open Source is Opening Data to Predictive Analytics - Mar 13, 2010.
  Revolutions in science have often been preceded by revolutions in measurement. Just as the microscope transformed biology by exposing germs, and the electron microscope changed physics, all these data are turning the social sciences upside down.
• TIBCO rolls out Spotfire 3.1 with spotlight on predictive analytics - Mar 12, 2010.
  Spotfire 3.1 allows any enterprise decision-maker to perform "what-if" scenarios on demand and find new insights in complex data
• Scientist at ID Analytics, San Diego, CA - Mar 11, 2010.
  part of a team responsible for the development of the company's advanced technologies particularly to do with statistical score modeling, score model development, score model deployment, large scale database analysis and statistical algorithms.
• Senior Data Engineer at ID Analytics, San Diego, CA - Mar 11, 2010.
  responsible for the extraction, verification, processing, cleansing, analysis and deployment of client data, third-party data sources, and internal data sources.
• Weka User Survey - Win Amazon.com Gift Card - Mar 11, 2010.
  U. of Waikato, the home of Weka, is interested to learn more about the people who use Weka Machine Learning Software. Do this 4-minute survey and you can win a $200 Amazon gift card.
• Google Public Data Explorer - Mar 11, 2010.
  The new Google Labs tool offers a visual way to look at and analyze large public data sets on a variety of popular search topics.
• Data Mining Engineer at eBay, San Jose, CA - Mar 10, 2010.
  TnS applications proactively prevent fraud, catch fraud, enforce eBay policies, as well as collect & mine data that will help build future Trust and Safety strategies. We build real time machine learning applications processing 100s of millions of transactions a day, learning from terabytes of historical data.
• 2 PhD positions in Stream/Sequence Mining at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX - Mar 10, 2010.
  participate in the group's research activities centered around data stream mining, genetic sequence mining and hurricane forecasting
• KDnuggets 10:n05: Sports Analytics; Oracle DM on Amazon Cloud; Massive visualization - Mar 10, 2010.
  latest data mining news and analytics news, including Features (7), Courses (1), Webcasts (1), Software (2), Jobs (7), Meetings (4), Publications (11), News Briefs (16), CFP (19) and a Quote.
• Free Webinar Mar 16 Data Mining: Failure to Launch - Mar 9, 2010.
  Learn How to Get Predictive Modeling Off the Ground and Into Orbit
• Predictive Analytics World: Save-the-Date and Call-for-Speakers - Mar 9, 2010.
  Save-the-date for the next PAW: Oct 19-20, 2010 in Washington DC; Speaker proposals deadline: April 16, 2010
• Survey Results: Difficulty and Importance of Various Modeling Steps - Mar 9, 2010.
  I am interested in how much time is spent per step in developing real systems and the community's opinion of the importance of the various steps.
• New Poll: How useful are sports analytics? - Mar 9, 2010.
  Is it a Sports Analytics Bubble? The recent MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference drew over 1,000 people - clearly Sports analytics are hot.
• Sports Analytics Conference: What Geeks Don't Get Panel Report - Mar 9, 2010.
  Simmons noted that the biggest issue he would like see is for those in the vanguard of the statistical revolution to make numbers more relatable to the common fan.
• Poll Results: Are there concise laws in large data? - Mar 9, 2010.
  35% think concise laws are frequent, but concise laws are probabilistic due to noise randomness inherent in human or biological systems
• Jingwei International Preliminary Results for FY 2009 - Mar 9, 2010.
  Net revenue for Q4 2009 is expected to increase about 50% from Q3 2009.
• Recommendation algorithm wants to show you something new - Mar 9, 2010.
  new algorithms that will make more tangential recommendations to users, which can help expand their interests, which will increase the longevity and utility of the recommendation system itself.

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