KDnuggets^TM News 07:n04, Feb 20, 2007

1. Poll Results: Education levels - growth in Ph.D, MBA groups
2. New Poll: Outsourcing of Data Mining / Web Mining Services
3. KDD-07 Last Call for Papers (abstracts due Feb 23)
4. adCenter Labs Demos Website
5. Microsoft Researcher and Database Expert Jim Gray Missing At Sea
6. Data Mining Survey: Thank You, More Participants Needed
7. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n02, Jan 23
8. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n03, Feb 7
9. Highlights from Data Mining and Analytics Blogs
10. VAST 2007 CONTEST: A VISUAL ANALYTICS CONTEST

11. KNIME v1.2 released

12. KXEN Web seminar: Leveraging the Power of Predictive Analytics
13. Survival Data Mining Course
14. Insightful Webcast (Mar 15): Risk and Data Management System for Basel II
15. SAS Hosts Multilevel Modeling Course in Rockville
16. Tutorial on "Data mining for CRM" (September 10-11 2007, Macerata - Italy),

17. Los Angeles area, CA: Software Engineer/Scientist (SES) at Ilial Inc
18. Mount Olive or Hackettstown, NJ: Analytic Research Scientist at Mars Inc
19. Mount Olive or Hackettstown, NJ (or Brussels Belgium or Shanghai China): Technology Development Manager at Mars Inc
20. Redmond, WA: Internet Marketing Database Analyst at Microsoft

21. PhD Studentship in Machine Learning at University of Bristol (due Mar 9)

22. wave forecasting in open sea
23. Ruleset Metrics?

24. New Books: Text Mining; Clustering Large and High-Dimensional Data
25. New book from SAS Press: Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS
26. Defining Text Analytics
27. Avoiding the Most Common Web Analytics Pitfalls

28. prudsys AG offers First Module for Dynamic Price Optimization
29. Business Objects Redefines Business Intelligence Search
30. SPSS Clementine(R) Software Obtains "Powered by SAP NetWeaver(R)" Qualification
31. Senators introduce sweeping data protection bill
32. Microsoft adds analytics to CRM
33. Predictive analytics the first step to customer centricity for Bon-Ton
34. Data Mining of London traffic

35. Advanced Data Mining and Applications, due Feb 26
    UAI 2007, due Feb 28
    IASC 07 - Statistics for Data Mining, Learning and Knowledge Extraction, due Feb 28
    DMIN'07: The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining, due Mar 5
    International Symposium of Visual Data Mining, IV07-VDM, due Mar 15
    5th International Symposium on GeoVisualization and Information Visualization, due Mar 15
    IEEE InfoVis 2007, due Mar 21 (abstracts)
    Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop: Model Views, due Apr 6
    Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization, due Apr 10
    CIKM 2007, due May 14
    3rd International Symposium on Computational Life Science, due May 21
    ICDM '07, due May 25 (abstracts)
    IEEE InfoVis 2007 (posters, art), due Jun 30 (posters, art)
    

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