KDnuggets^TM News 05:n16, Aug 30, 2005

1. Poll Results: Importance of Data Mining
2. New Poll: Types of data you analyzed/mined in last 12 months
3. KDD-2005 Highlights

4. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ San Diego: Sept | Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Jan ]
5. Data Mining Techniques course
6. Industry expert C. Olivia Parr Rud delivers Data Mining Course
7. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Charlottesville, VA, Sep 19-20
8. Save $200 on M2005: SAS annual Data Mining Conference - register by Sep 12

9. Los Angeles, CA or New Delhi, India: Data Mining Software Scientist at Syncata, a ProQuest Company
10. Redmond, WA: Market Intelligence Analyst at Microsoft-MSN
11. Hoffman Estates, IL: DATA MINING MANAGER at Career Education Corporation
12. Wilmington, DE: Informatics Scientist at Astra Zeneca
13. Duluth, GA or Waltham, MA: Marketing Optimization Specialist at Click Tactics
14. San Jose, CA: Statistician at eBay
15. San Jose, CA: Manager, Risk Analytics at eBay
16. San Francisco, CA: Director, Marketing Analytics (Req 9352) at Providian
17. San Francisco, CA: Director, Marketing - MIS Acquisitions (Req 9350) at Providian
18. San Francisco, CA: Director, Marketing Information Services (Req 9358) at Providian
19. McLean, VA: 01029286 -- Data Mining Specialist, Senior at Booz Allen Hamilton
20. Seattle, WA: Senior Statistician / Data Mining Analyst at a private, rapidly growing company
21. Germany or other major location in EMEA: Senior Analytical Consultant at Teradata
22. Seattle, WA: Director of Software Development, Discovery Platform Core Services at Amazon.com

23. SAS raises bar on data mining and text mining; improves predictive analytics
24. GATree (Decision Trees via Genetic Algorithms)
25. Time-Oriented Language (TOL) Software

26. Post-doc Research Fellow in Computational Biology at USC, Los Angeles, CA

27. Unified Business Intelligence: UIMA - Is IBM Hearing Voices?
28. New book: Text Mining and its Applications to Intelligence, CRM and KM

29. Surveillance to detect abnormal behaviour on public transport
30. IDC ranks Fair Isaac as the market share leader in analytic applications
31. In The Datasphere, No Word Goes Unheard
32. KANA Apps for Analyzing Unstructured Content Support UIMA Framework from IBM
33. Pentagon Data Mining reportedly identified Four 9/11 hijackers back in 2000
34. The 451 Group: Text Analysis May Become Key Battleground among Innovative Software Companies
35. NCSA researchers compare Yahoo and Google index sizes
36. UAB hopes data-mining project will improve hospital care
37. In Silicon Valley, a Debate Over the Size of the Web
38. CMU Spatiotemporal data mining against food poisoning, bioterrorism
39. Automated mining of Deep Web
40. A wasted opportunity in war on terror ?
41. MEDai Predictive Modeling Technology Excels in UC Data Mining Competition
42. GAO�Report on Data Mining

43. ECML/PKDD-2005, Early registration deadline Sep 3
44. Salford Data Mining Conference Program, 29-31 March 2006, San Diego

45. Knowledge Acquisition from Distributed, Heterogeneous Sources, due Sep 7
    Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization spec. issue, due Sep 15
    VIEW'2006, due Sep 15
    IPMU 2006: Information Processing and Management Of Uncertainty, due Oct 15
    FLAIRS 2006, due Nov 21
    Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium, due Jan 1
    Temporal Data Mining Spec. Issue, due Jan 25
    

Similar network laws can describe systems as diverse as the cell, the World Wide Web, and the society, and the emergence of most networks is driven by self-organizing processes that are governed by simple but generic laws. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, KDD-2005 Invited Talk.