KDnuggets^TM News 07:n03, Feb 7, 2007

1. Data Miners Global Average Income $91,000 - up about 10%
2. New Poll: Your Highest Education Level
3. KDD-07 Paper Submission open (abstracts due Feb 23)
4. PAKDD Competition 2007: Feb 15 to Apr 15, Cross-Selling Problem
5. Please Participate in Data Mining Survey

6. Tiberius v5.0, special offer for KDnuggets readers
7. 6S: peer network for collaborative Web search and user study
8. Implicit Affinity Networks

9. Free Webcast: The Power of Ensemble Modeling, Feb 20
10. KXEN WEB Seminar: Strategic and operational decision making with Exploratory Modeling, Feb 20
11. SAS Analytics Lecture Series Returns in 2007
12. Largest offering of data mining classes!

13. San Diego, CA: Fraud Analytics Consultant (Telco) (req 2599) at Fair Isaac Corporation
14. San Jose, CA: Paid Search Analytics Manager at eBay
15. Chicago, New York, or Bay area, USA: Sales Engineer at SPSS
16. Chicago, IL: Director, Sales Engineers, NA Commercial at SPSS
17. Orange County, CA: Statistician at Ditech.com
18. San Jose, CA: Manager, Planning & Pricing Analytics at eBay
19. Rockville, MD: Electronic Surveillance Engineer (KDD Specialist) at NASD
20. New York, NY: Senior Manager/Director - Strategic Analytics at SIRIUS Satellite Radio
21. Austin, TX: Statistician at Dell Inc.
22. Austin, TX: Marketing Business Circulation (Strategy) Analyst at Dell Inc.
23. San Diego, CA: Business Intelligence Developer at RealAge Inc.
24. San Jose, CA: Senior Manager, Forecasting & Analysis at eBay
25. San Diego, CA: Lead Scientist at Fair Isaac Corporation
26. Champaign, IL: Senior Text Analytics Developer at RiverGlass
27. Lexington, MA: Web Analyst at VistaPrint
28. Lexington, MA: Manager of Customer Analytics at VistaPrint

29. Multiple Research Scientists (Data Mining) Required at Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
30. Mentoring opportunities: CRA-W DMP & CDC DMP 2007 Application Information

31. New Data Mining Novel
32. Interview with Urchin co-founder Brett Crosby (now Google Analytics)
33. New book: Life Science Data Mining
34. The Text Mining industry in Europe set to be worth $15 billion by 2010

35. Microsoft Predicts The Future With Vista's SuperFetch
36. Explosive data mining robots could be sent to hazardous asteroids
37. Microsoft Shows Off AdCenter
38. After Exceeding First-year Goals, Clarabridge Secures $7.2 Million in New Funding
39. GCN interview with Kim Taipale, data mining expert
40. Springer-Verlag chooses TEMIS Text Analytics solution
41. Angoss reports record revenue in fiscal 2006 results
42. Intelligent Enterprise Readers Choice Awards
43. SailPoint Assesses Net Risks
44. SAS ranked best in data mining by Intelligent Enterprise Readers
45. Aggregate Knowledge's Collective Discovery Network
46. SAS sponsors MS in information quality at U. of Arkansas at Little Rock
47. Donald Farmer, new Principal Program Manager for the SQL Server Data Mining team
48. Insightful opening three new world offices

49. Summer School On Algorithmic Data Analysis, May 2007, Helsinki (applications due Mar 2)

50. Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, due Feb 15
    Data Mining in Computer-Based Medical Systems, due Feb 15
    International Workshop on Educational Data Mining (EDM@ICALT'07), due Feb 28
    AI Magazine: What Went Wrong, due Mar 1
    Web Mining for E-commerce and E-services, due Mar 16
    ESWC 2007 Workshop: Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0, due Mar 23
    Challenge Submission: Graph Labelling application to Web Spam, due Mar 30
    Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop: Model Views, due Apr 6
    
51. ICDM '07: The 7th IEEE Int. Conference on Data Mining, due Jun 1

I'd rather know about what is your history for the last five minutes as you try to solve this problem than know about your history for the last five years.

Peter Norvig, Google.