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  • (item1) Poll Results: US/Canada data miners income and status
  • (item2) New Poll: European/Asian/Pac Rim Data Miners annual income
  • (item3) Nominate the most innovative and deserving data miners for ACM SIGKDD 2002 Innovation and Services Awards, deadline May 1, 2002
  • (item4) SIGKDD 2002 - online registration open at www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002/
Jobs (see also KDnuggets Jobs page)
  • (item5) Sunnyvale, CA: Engineering Manager-Data Management at Yahoo! Inc
  • (item6) Sunnyvale, CA: Technical Data Mining at Yahoo! Inc
  • (item7) Sunnyvale, CA: Personalization Technology Development at Yahoo! Inc
  • (item8) New York City, NY: Data/Business Analyst (2) for Global Securities Firm
Courses (see also KDnuggets Courses page)
  • (item9) Free Unica Web Seminar: Analytics: The Rx for Your Pharmaceutical Marketing, May 2
  • (item10) Salford Data Mining Training in Europe: London, May 13-15; Madrid, May 21-23
  • (item11) Salford Systems Data Mining Training, Chicago, May 20-23, 2002
  • (item12) DATA MINING: LEVELS I & II [ DC: June | New Orleans: Sept | Las Vegas: Nov ]
Software (see also KDnuggets Software page)
  • (item13) Random Forests (by Leo Breiman) is available under GNU license
Publications (see also KDnuggets Publications page)
  • (item14) KDD Cup 2000 - clickstream and commerce data available
Briefs
  • (item15) ANGOSS announces XML/A support
  • (item16) Pharma and FDA Explore if Microarrays are Ready for Primetime
  • (item17) Acero And Oracle Join Forces
  • (item18) Hotwire optimizes their Web site with NetTracker
  • (item19) W3C approves P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences)
  • (item20) Senator Hollings privacy bill divides data into sensitive and not
  • (item21) The Database "rights" of European companies
Meetings (see also KDnuggets Meetings page)
  • (item22) CCR-P/DIMACS Conference: Data Mining for Homeland Defense, Princeton, NJ, Jun 17-22
  • (item23) CAMDA02 Conference, Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, Nov 14-15, 2002
CFP (see also KDnuggets Meetings page)
  • (item24) Operational Text Classification 2002 - Deadline for abstracts May 8, 2002
  • (item25) Multi-Relational Data Mining Workshop, deadline May 21, 2002
  • (item26) ECML/PKDD-Workshop "Semantic Web Mining", deadline May 24, 2002
  • (item27) VDM: Workshop on Visual Data Mining at ECML/PKDD'2002, deadline May 24, 2002
  • (item28) MDM - Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining at KDD'2002, deadline May 24, 2002
  • (item29) MLJ Special Issue on Meta-learning - 2nd CFP, deadline June 8
  • (item30) Spec. Issue of Decision Support Systems on Data Mining for Financial Decision Making, deadline Sep 9, 2002
Quote
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, GenomeWeb on the dilemma of drug developers, who are afraid to use microarray data in drug evaluation process because they can generate many false positives that will need to reported.

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