KDnuggets^TM News 05:n20, Oct 25, 2005

1. Poll results: real-time data for predictions of consumer behavior
2. New Poll: Place of Data Mining group(s) in Your Organization ?
3. Exclusive Interview with Usama Fayyad, Yahoo Chief Data Officer
4. Usama Fayyad Interview, 2: on data mining challenges
5. Usama Fayyad Interview, 3: on digiMine
6. Usama Fayyad Interview, 4: on DMX Group and consulting lessons

7. Get started with Oracle Data Mining self-study tutorial (Free)
8. IRIX distribution for MineSet now available to download
9. Free SPSS Data Mining Tips Guide ... see how data mining gets results!

10. Webcast: Why Data Mining is a Necessity for the 21st Century
11. Webcast: Will automated predictive modeling be your competitive edge?
12. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Jan ]
13. NEW! SAS Functions by Example, San Francisco, Dec 15
14. Salford Data Mining Conference, San Diego, March 2006

15. Stephenville, TX: Research Statistician at Planning Systems Inc
16. Bellevue, WA: Sr. Statistical Modeler at Intelligent Results
17. San Jose, CA, USA: Manager, Models & Analytical Reporting at PayPal Inc.
18. Seattle, WA: Research Scientist/Statistician at Insightful
19. Columbus, OH, USA: Analytical Consultants at BrainWorks, Inc.
20. Columbus, OH, USA: Sr. Statistician at BrainWorks, Inc.
21. Newark, DE: Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Software Scientist at Quantum Leap Innovations
22. Palo Alto, CA, USA: Datamining Engineer at traffic information startup
23. Wilmington, DE, USA: Decision Science Statistician - Job number 050045629 at JPMorgan Chase

24. Singapore: Lead Scientist - Knowledge Discovery at I2R
25. Chicago, IL: Visiting Research Scientist at the National Center for Data Mining, UIC
26. Oak Ridge, TN: Post-doc, Post-Masters Positions in Knowledge Discovery at ORNL

27. New journal: ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
28. ODBMS.ORG Launches Educational Portal on Object Databases
29. KDD Cup Data and Results - in one place
30. PKDD/ECML2005 keynote
31. Text Mining for Finding Opportunities and Threats to Reputation

32. SAS voted Best Data Mining and Text Mining Tool by Intelligent Enterprise Readers
33. Do You Squidoo?
34. Database Firms Look Beyond Response To Profitability
35. Siebel New Real-Time Predictive Analytics
36. Cranes Software Licenses Equbits Predictive Modeling Framework
37. Intelligent Enterprise Readers Choice Awards related to Data Mining
38. Sane Solutions announces partnerships with eCommerce, online marketing and specialized analytics vendors
39. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Awards $780,000 contract to Insightful
40. Securities Fraud Targeted by New Computing Tool
41. Yahoo Tech Buzz Game
42. Combining Google Maps with flights, census, jobs, ...

43. Workshop on Data Mining at the Fields Institute, 10-12 Nov, Toronto, Canada

44. Book chapters: KDD Challenges and Realities with Real World Data, due Nov 1 (chapter proposals)
    SETN'06: Hellenic Conf. on AI, due Nov 7
    FLAIRS 2006, due Nov 21
    CBR Special Track At FLAIRS 06, due Nov 21 (new)
    PaRMa'06: Pattern Representation and Management, due Dec 13
    Call for Chapters: Data Mining Patterns: New Methods and Applications, due Dec 15
    ISI-2006: Intelligence and Security Informatics, due Jan 20
    Leipzig ICDM, due Jan 22
    

Any statistic that appears interesting is almost certainly a mistake. Twyman's Law (Thanks to Ronny Kohavi)