KDnuggets^TM News 05:06, Mar 22, 2005

1. Poll Results: Lower Pct of Women in Science: Society or Genetics?
2. New Poll: Guessing age, sex, and birthday of gift recipient - useful reminder or invasion of privacy ?
3. SIGKDD 2005 Data Mining Innovation and Service Awards: Nominations due May 20
4. Registration open for student DATA MINING CUP 2005
5. Business Intelligence Benchmark Survey - Your Participation is Very Important!

6. Mar 30 Webcast: Telecommunications Metrics for Success -- Staying Ahead with Predictive Analytics
7. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Apr | Wash DC: June ]
8. Early Reg. Deadline MARCH 25: Salford Systems Data Mining Training and Workshop, Madrid

9. Dallas, TX: Manager, Statistical Analysis at Hotels.com
10. Boston, MA or Manchester, NH: Analytics Pre-Sales Consultant at Chordiant Software
11. Newark, DE: Director, Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Center of Excellence at Quantum Leap Innovations
12. Beijing, China: Directors/Architects/Scientists, Search Engine at Baidu.com
13. San Francisco, CA: Vice President, Marketing Analytics at Providian
14. Seattle, WA: Senior Risk Analyst at Amazon.com
15. San Francisco, CA: Pattern Recognition Scientist II or Statistical Scientist II, Informatics at Predicant
16. Rosslyn, VA: Senior Data Management Analyst at SRA International
17. Mountain View, CA: Data Mining Analyst at Google

18. Data analysis software RSES

19. NCAA March Madness: Professors Use SAS Predictive Analytics to Pick Game Winners

20. TEMIS and LINGSOFT Partnership for Text Mining Northern Europe languages
21. Microsoft Notebook: Intelligent software aims to give users peace of mind
22. SPSS Predictive Analytics Accelerating Cancer Research at Children's Memorial Research Center
23. IDC ranks Fair Isaac as the market share leader in analytic applications
24. Seeing Through the Fog of Data
25. Software organizes email by task
26. MLB.com looks into the past to build content for the future
27. IBM buys Ascential
28. Genalytics Introduces Genalytics Prospect
29. Visual Analytics wins money laundering support work

30. Salford Systems Data Mining Conference: New York City, March 28-30

31. Computational Intelligence for Business Intelligence, due Mar 28
    ROC Analysis in ML, due Apr 1
    CompLife '05, due May 15
    ECML/PKDD-2005, due May 16
    Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE), due May 24 (abstracts)
    ICDM '05, due June 15
    

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