KDnuggets^TM News 05:n21, Nov 8, 2005

1. Poll results: Marketing - leading place for data mining
2. New Poll: Which DM problems are important for your work/research?
3. Usama Fayyad Interview 5: on Yahoo Data Mining Successes
4. Usama Fayyad Interview 6: Privacy and Data Mining
5. Usama Fayyad Interview 7: Yahoo index size
6. Usama Fayyad Interview 8: What's exciting at Yahoo Research Labs
7. KDnuggets Forums topics: methodologies, fraud detection, censored response ...

8. Angoss Targets New Markets With KnowledgeSTUDIO(R) 5 Release
9. Get started with Oracle Data Mining self-study tutorial (Free)
10. Generation5’s clustering technology
11. Visualizing the operating principle of C-SVM

12. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Jan ]
13. Don't doom your credit scoring efforts!

14. Palo Alto, CA, USA: Search and Knowledge Extraction Engineer at a hot startup
15. Duluth, GA or Waltham, MA: Marketing Optimization Specialist at Click Tactics
16. Herndon, VA, USA: Statistician at DHSoft, Inc.
17. Austin, TX: Project Manager at Austin Logistics, Inc
18. Austin, TX: Senior Data Analyst at Austin Logistics, Inc
19. San Francisco, CA: Marketing Analyst, Gap Inc. at GE Consumer Finance
20. Toronto, Canada: Manager, Customer Analysis and Modeling at a major financial institution
21. Southern California, USA: Research Programmer: Advanced Securities Trading and Technology at a securities trading organization

22. New book: Fighting Terror in Cyberspace
23. Bayesian Analysis: new electronic journal
24. KDD-2005 Proceedings

25. NCI using MineSet for genome sequence comparisons
26. Briant Lent Medio Systems startup aims for mobile search
27. Microsoft Search Technology Center in Beijing to focus on data mining, more ...
28. EQUBITS Licenses Foresight to Novartis and Johnson and Johnson
29. Angoss Software Releases StrategyBUILDER - Decision Optimization and Execution Module
30. Using Machine Learning to Assess Digital Library Quality
31. relevantNOISE gets Technology Fellowship from New Jersey
32. Microsoft SQL Server 2005

33. UK KDD Symposium (UKKDD'06)
34. Salford Data Mining Conference Program, 29-31 March 2006, San Diego

35. AI Nectar
36. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006), due Nov 14
    KDXD 2006: Knowledge Discovery from XML Documents, due Nov 25
    Call for Chapters, Text Mining and Natural Language Processing, due Dec 1
    Mining Spatio-Temporal Data, due Jan 10
    Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering, part of AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, due Jan 15
    The second workshop on Algorithmic Techniques for Data Mining 2006 (ATDM 2006), due Jan 27
    Spec Issue on Soft Computing for Dynamic Data Mining, due Feb 1, 2006
    Stream {Data Mining} at EURO XXI Conf., due Mar 1
    AI Nectar, due Mar 14
    

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If it stinks, it's chemistry.
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