KDnuggets^TM News 05:04, Feb 17, 2005

1. Popular data mining techniques
2. New Poll: Data Mining-related meetings
3. new project "DataMining Grid" sponsored by the European Commission

4. KXEN Web seminar: Shaping the Future - Leveraging the Power of Predictive Analytics, Feb 22 or Mar 15
5. Insightful webinar: Safety Data Analysis and Reporting Using S-PLUS� and Insightful MinerT, March 10, 8 am PT
6. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Apr | Wash DC: June ]

7. San Francisco, CA: Vice President Marketing Analytics - Customer Development at Providian
8. San Francisco, CA: Director Marketing Analytics, Strategy Development / Customer Development at Providian
9. San Francisco, CA: Marketing Analyst at Providian
10. Seattle, WA: Senior Risk Analyst at Amazon.com
11. Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Oregon: Applied Industrial Statisticians (multiple positions) at Intel
12. Beaverton, OR: Senior Software Engineer - Intelligent Search Engine at Unicru
13. Framingham, MA: Manager - Real Estate Modeling (Reference Number 9201BR) at Staples, Inc.
14. Bellevue, WA: Business Analyst: Customer Analytics at drugstore.com
15. Bellevue, WA: Sr. Director of Business Analytics at drugstore.com

16. Predictive Analytics with Data Mining: How It Works

17. Stanford - first regional center for Homeland Security visual analytics
18. IBS Taps Revenue Science for Targeting
19. Kintera offers data mining and prospect identification to nonprofits
20. Angoss Fourth Quarter Highlights
21. ASA Expands Banking Solution with Quest Analytics Partnership
22. Insurer (WSIB) selects Angoss for employer audit and compliance programs
23. Valen Technologies Appoints Dr. Gary Haith As Senior Scientist
24. SAS and Amdocs Team Up for Marketing Automation
25. SPSS Reports Record Revenues Driven By Increase In New Licenses

26. NLP and Text Mining in Medicine, Spec. Session, due Mar 1
    JUCS Data Streams, due Mar 10
    Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium, due Mar 14
    Spec. session on Data Mining for Business Intelligence, due Mar 14
    ILP-2005, due Mar 18
    AAAI-2005, due Mar 18
    BNCOD-2005 Workshop on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, due Mar 31
    ICML'05 August 7 workshops, due Apr 1
    ICML'05 August 11 workshops, due Apr 1
    Special Session on Computational Biology at KES 2005, due Apr 15
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, due May 1
    D&KE spec. issue {Intelligent Data Mining}, due May 20
    

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