KDnuggets^TM News 06:n09, May 16, 2006

1. Poll Results: Data mining/analytic tools you used in 2006
2. New Poll: NSA data mining of US domestic calls
3. 2006 KDD Cup Announcement - medical data mining challenge
4. 2006 Data Mining Innovation and Service Awards: Nominations due June 30
5. Top items from KDnuggets News 06:n08, May 2

6. Oracle Data Mining (ODM) - Free self-study tutorial
7. Provalis Research releases WordStat 5.1 text mining and content analysis tool
8. Salford CART(R), MARS(R), TreeNet(tm) excel at PAKDD 2006

9. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Wash-DC: June | San Diego: Sept ]

10. San Rafael, CA: Analytic Science Lead and Analytic Science Manager at Fair Isaac Corporation
11. San Rafael, CA: Analytic Science Manager - R&D at Fair Isaac Corporation
12. San Rafael, CA: Analytic Software Manager - R&D at Fair Isaac Corporation
13. Lanham, MD: Statistician at Merkle
14. Lanham, MD: Senior Statistician at Merkle
15. Ghent, Belgium: Researchers (in biomarker discovery and molecular diagnostics) at Peakadilly
16. Redmond, WA, USA: Experimentation Platform (multiple positions) at Microsoft (Windows Live)
17. Redmond, WA, USA: Fraud Decision Science Analyst at Microsoft, Fraud Systems & Prevention
18. Portland, OR, USA: Quantitative Analyst/Senior Quantitative Analyst at Quantec, LLC
19. Sunnyvale, CA, USA: Researcher at Yahoo! Data Mining and Research Group (DMR)
20. San Francisco, CA, USA: Database Marketing Analyst at Esurance
21. Ventura County, CA, USA: Sr. Data Mining Analyst at Harbor Freight Tools

22. Career Opportunities in Bioinformatics And Systems Biology at EPA

23. Is NSA data mining all US domestic phone calls?
24. Christian Science Monitor: Mining data to nab terrorists: fair?
25. NSA's Multi-Billion Dollar Data Mining Effort
26. Open BI Forum: Unsexy Graphics for Business Intelligence

27. Fair Isaac's designs are on artificial intelligence
28. Spam gets personal
29. SPSS Delivers Strong First Quarter 2006 Results
30. U.S. doctors object to data-mining
31. Engineering the Predictive Enterprise
32. eHarmony Expands SPSS Deployment Company-Wide for Research and Development
33. SAS puts BI on demand with marketing modules

34. Hedging Predictions in Machine Learning, Jun 12, London, UK

35. Nine KDD-06 workshops, paper due in June (dates vary)
36. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) - call for papers
37. CIKM-2006: Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, due May 31, 2006
    WEBKDD'06, due Jun 1
    Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery for Users (UKDU'06), due Jun 1
    Chapters: Statistical Implicative Analysis, due Jun 1
    NIPS*2006, due Jun 9
    KDD-06 Workshop on Data Mining for Business Applications, due Jun 10
    Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD06), due Jun 12
    KDD-06 Workshop on Utility-Based Data Mining (UBDM-06), due Jun 16
    ECML PKDD 2006 Workshop on Parallel Data Mining, due Jun 28
    ECML PKDD 2006 Workshop on Web Mining 2006 (WebMine), due Jun 28
    ICDM '06, due Jul 5
    

"We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans." President George W. Bush, May 11, 2006, quoted in USA Today.