KDnuggets^TM News 06:n15, Aug 7, 2006

1. Is there a Grand Challenge for Data Mining?
2. Poll Results: Most analyze table data, followed by time-series
3. New Poll: Can computers make better decisions than humans?
4. ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award to Ramakrishnan Srikant
5. ACM SIGKDD Service Award to Won Kim
6. AOL Datasets available for Research
7. Data Mining - art exhibit in New York
8. Interesting Blogs Entries
9. Top items from KDnuggets News 06:n14, Jul 25

10. Data Mining Template Library (DMTL) -- Release 1.0

11. Learn Predictive Analytics with Salford Systems (Chicago, Philly, San Diego)
12. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ San Diego: Sept | Las Vegas: Dec ]

13. New York, NY: Statistical Marketing Manager at Redcats USA
14. Vienna, VA: Member Research Analyst at Navy Federal Credit Union
15. Dodgeville, WI: Senior Business Analyst - Web Analytics at Lands' End
16. San Diego, CA: Technical Production Analyst at Union Bank of California
17. Chicago, IL: Predictive Modeling Analyst at Ernst & Young LLP
18. Charlotte, NC: Statistician at Bank of America

19. Research Officer, Security and Privacy at NRC (Canada)

20. New Book: Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL
21. New Book: Advanced Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Data
22. Tuzhilin Report on Google Click Fraud is available

23. Google Shares Click Fraud Stats
24. IDC names BI market share leaders, predicts consolidation
25. Gates Won't Fund AIDS Researchers Unless They Pool Data
26. UCI researchers 'text mine' The New York Times
27. New Study Confirms that it Really Does Pay to Advertise
28. SPSS Reports Record Second Quarter and First Half Revenues
29. QL2 Software and TEMIS Join Forces to Unlock Value from the Web
30. All Our N-gram are Belong to You: Google releases a trillion words

31. IEEE ICDM'06 Awards: Nominations by August 15, 2006
32. Utility-Based Data Mining (DMKD Spec. Issue), due Oct 17
    

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