KDnuggets^TM News 06:n19, Oct 10, 2006

1. Netflix $1 million prize for improving accuracy of movie recommendations
2. Poll Results: Data Mining Roles: Practioners, Researchers, and more
3. New Poll: Your Interest in Netflix Prize for for improving accuracy of movie recommendations?
4. First CRISP-DM 2.0 Workshop Held
5. Correction to Pentaho - Weka story in latest KDNuggets
6. Q&A with Raghu Ramakrishnan, new Yahoo! VP and Research Fellow

7. Java Data Mining Expert Group Submits Public Review Draft of Version 2 (JSR-247)
8. Open source search technology goes beyond keywords
9. Free open-source data mining: YALE 3.4
10. Data Mining for Regular Expressions

11. Insightful Free Webcast: Best Practices In Data Mining, Oct 12
12. Predictive Analytics for Business and Marketing, Prediction Impact, Oct 19-20, San Francisco
13. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Jan ]

14. San Francisco, CA: Model Review Analyst (Spec III - Credit) at Washington Mutual
15. Redmond, WA: Research SDE Lead at Microsoft adCenter Labs
16. Redmond, WA: Research SDE at Microsoft adCenter Labs
17. San Bruno, CA: Product Manager at Nomis Solutions
18. San Diego, CA: Quality Data Analyst at Continuous Computing Corporation
19. Sunnyvale, CA: Research Statistician at Yahoo! Research
20. Roseland, NJ: Senior Manager, Global Market Analytics (Management Science) at Organon
21. Downtown Seattle, WA, USA: Developer - Personalization & Recommendations at Medio Systems
22. West Los Angeles, California: (Sr.) Analyst/Statistician, Business Optimization at Shopzilla.com
23. New York, NY: Marketing Manager, Customer Intelligence/Analytics (SQL, SAS) at Barnes & Noble.com

24. New Book: Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS
25. New Book Details Analytic Methods Used to Forecast, Prevent Crime
26. Free Access to Computing Reviews until Oct 31 at Reviews.com
27. Data Smog: The Too-Much-Data Problem
28. New book: Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures

29. Louisiana School District Uses Data Mining To Analyze Troublemakers
30. Basis Technology Acquires Translingual Technologies
31. Data Mining Tools Boost Radiology Department Productivity
32. Behind the Scenes in the Search Engine Labs
33. BusinessWeek's Good Look At Click Fraud
34. Global Data Mining Provides 2007 HS (Tariff Classification) Reform Screening
35. Completion of Allen Brain Atlas Hailed as "Epoch-Making"
36. TEMIS launches Luxid�, its next generation Information Intelligence solution
37. AdCenter Advertisers Like Returns, Want More
38. Johns Hopkins University and Collexis collaborate on Expert Profiler System
39. Miner3D provides visual data analytics in the health intelligence software Azyxxi
40. Aimco Selects SPSS to Enhance Employee Recruitment and Retention
41. ClearForest Announces Mashup Contest
42. ClearForest Launches New Web Services to Realize Value from Semantic Web
43. EU-Funded Semantic Grid Computing Project Adopts InforSense�� Integrative Analytics Technology
44. How Yahoo! redesigned home page based on data mining

45. Don't miss the KXEN Extreme Data Mining User Group
    North America: San Francisco, November 6-8 (keynote by Gartner)
    Europe & Asia: Paris November 16-17 (keynotes by IDC & Bloor Research)
46. ISCIS'06: Int. Symp. on Computer and Information Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 1-3
    Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2006), Nov 6-11
    ICTAI '06: IEEE Int. Conf. on Tools with AI, Wash., D.C., Nov 13-15

47. Emerging Research Opportunities in Web Data Management (EROW 2007), due Oct 23
    Tracking, Recognition, and Annotation in Sports, due Oct 31
    Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering, due Oct 31 (intent to submit)
    Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, due Nov 15
    PAKDD-2007 Tutorial Proposals, due Nov 30
    

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