KDnuggetsTM News 04:24, Dec 21, 2004
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- Poll Results: Top Reasons for taking a course
- New Poll: KDnuggets News Email Format - text or HTML?
- KDnuggets top search terms in 2004
- Yahoo! Appoints Dr. Usama Fayyad as Chief Data Officer
Jobs
- McLean, VA: Data Mining Specialist, Senior at Booz Allen Hamilton
- San Francisco, CA: Data Analyst/Architect (16 weeks project) at M Squared
- Richmond, VA: Sr. Manager, IT Infrastructure, Strategy for Data Analysis (501181) at Capital One
- Redmond, WA: (Data Mining) Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
- Saint Louis, MO: Data Mining Analyst at MasterCard
- Cleveland, OH: Modeling Manager, Consumer Credit at KeyCorp
- Cleveland, OH: Sr. Modeling Analyst at KeyCorp
- Cleveland, OH: Modeling Analyst at KeyCorp
- Malvern, PA: Research Scientists (Machine Learning / Probabilistic Inference) at Siemens Medical Systems
- New York, NY: SAS Senior Administrator (3 mo contract) at Inductis
- New York, NY: SAS Statistician Guru at Poindexter Systems
Software
- OSSmole: new open source data repository
Academic
- Faculty Position at Univ. of Arizona MIS Department
Publications
- The Butterfly Effect: Estimating Faux-New Customers
Briefs
- Florida E-Vote Study Debunked
- Zahavi: Attitudinal Data Can Humanize Data Mining
- FundGuard from Angoss helps predict mutual fund sales and reduce redemption risk
- Chordiant to Acquire KIQ
- Anonymous data-mining technology protects privacy
- Visual Numerics Library with Neural Network Functionality
- Genalytics Enhances its DB Extract Module
- Toyota's data warehousing and data mining helps make it world's No. 2 automaker
Meetings
- Salford Data Mining Conference: Solving Real World Challenges, New York, March 2005
CFP
- SIAM (SDM-05) Workshop on Feature Selection for Data Mining, due Jan 7
EURO-PAR 2005 Parallel and Distributed DB, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, due Jan 31 AIRWeb '05: Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, due Feb 4 Symposium on Visual Data Mining, due Mar 1 Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics, due Mar 4 CEAS 2005: Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, due Mar 15 ILP 2005: Inductive Logic Programming, abstracts due Mar 18 Special Issue on Mining Low-Quality Data, due May 1
Quote
"It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This
is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. A statistician is one
who has learned how to get valid evidence from statistics and how (usually) to avoid
being misled by irrelevant facts. It�s too bad that we apply the same name to this
kind of person that we use for those who only tabulate. It�s as if we had the same
name for barbers and brain surgeons because they both work on the head."
Robert Hooke, How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians
New York, NY: Marcel-Dekker, Inc., 1983, page 1
(Thanks to B. D. McCullough )
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