KDnuggets^TM News 06:n02, Jan 24, 2006

1. Poll Results: Clustering is the top text mining task
2. New Poll: New Topics for KDnuggets Forums
3. What is your dangerous idea?
4. KDD-06 Call for Panels, Industrial/Government Track Papers
5. Poem on Trees and Data Mining

6. Company Profile: Data Shaping Solutions
7. Free SPSS Text Mining report -- Make your unstructured text data count!
8. SPSS' New Product Will Significantly Boost CRM, Marketing & Fraud Detection

9. Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining, Palo Alto, Apr 3-4

10. US-VA-Arlington, US-MD-Rockville: Systems Engineer 3 (or higher) - 05002544 at SAS Institute Inc.
11. Chicago, IL or Ann Arbor, MI, USA: Sr. Web Analyst at Fry, Inc.
12. San Jose, CA, USA: Senior Risk Modeler at PayPal
13. Chicago, IL: Research Programmer/Engineer at National Center for Data Mining at UIC
14. Redmond, WA: Fraud Metrics Analyst, Job Code: 147633 at Microsoft
15. Pleasanton, CA: Data Warehouse Analyst at Providian Financial
16. Washington, D.C., USA: Researcher, spatial forecasting (US Citizenship, Secret Clearance required) at Spatial Data Analytics Corporation
17. Redmond, WA, USA: (Data Mining) Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
18. Central London, UK: Senior Developer - Personalisation at lastminute.com

19. Postdoc and PhD positions in Machine Learning at NUI Galway and TCD

20. New Books: Querying XML and Commonsense Reasoning
21. Jeff Ullman course on Web Mining
22. New book "Exploratory Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data"
23. Article: Combining ethnographic and clickstream data to identify user browsing strategies

24. Revenue Science Gets $25 million in funding
25. Xerox Taps Data Mining To Improve Sales Forecasts
26. Stanford/Packard Scientist's Data-Mining Technique Strikes Genetic Gold
27. Inforsense KDE 3.0 Released: Enabling Decision-Making Enterprise-Wide
28. IBM makes Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) Open Source
29. SAS Positioned in the Leader Quadrant for Customer Data Mining

30. 4th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference 2006 (AWIC 2006), due Feb 5
    KDD-06 Industrial/Government Applications, due Mar 3
    KDD-06 Panels Proposals, due Mar 7
    Successful Real-World Data Mining Applications, SIGKDD Explorations spec. issue, due Apr 3
    ECML/PKDD-2006, due Apr 26
    CIARP-2006, due May 19
    ALT 2006, due May 25
    

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