KDnuggets^TM News 07:n06, Mar 27, 2007

1. Poll results: How much do you trust Google to store your data?
2. New Poll: Data mining/ analytic methods you used frequently?
3. Who first said "Drowning in Data yet Starving for Knowledge"
4. IJCNN 2007 Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge challenge
5. Highlights from Data Mining and Analytics Blogs
6. 2007 Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition
7. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n05, Mar 13
8. Researchers Track Down a Plague of Fake Web Pages

9. Data Mining Courses: Strategy, Methods & Application [ April, Las Vegas | June, Wash-DC ]

10. Irving, TX: Consultant at Javelin Direct
11. Irving, TX: Senior Analyst at Javelin Direct
12. Southfield, MI: Senior Originations Analyst at Credit Acceptance
13. San Jose, CA: Data mining scientist, Applied Research. at eBay
14. Short Hills, NJ: Leader, Standard Risk Scores at D&B
15. New York, NY: Systematic Analyst at Thales Fund Management, LLC
16. San Jose, CA: Senior Manager Finding Analytics at eBay
17. San Jose, CA: Statistician / Quantitative Analytics Manager at eBay

18. Post-doc in machine learning, AI, and data mining at VCU

19. New book: Introduction to Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner
20. videos on datamining at http://videolectures.net
21. Click Fraud: New Definition and Methodology to Assess Generic Traffic Quality
22. Customer sentiment - next analytics frontier?
23. Science and Engineering Visualization Competition

24. Smart software lets game developers see statistics
25. New Tools Show True Potential of Grid-Based Data Mining
26. Google Hires "Analytics Evangelist"
27. Divvio to Offer Personal Guide of Video and Audio Content to Consumers
28. comScore Announces New "Visits" Metric For Measuring User Engagement
29. KXEN Adopts Six Sigma Methodology For Data Mining Projects
30. Simba Technologies Releases Updated OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) to XML for Analysis (XMLA) Bridge
31. Homeland Security warned on privacy impact of data-mining plans
32. Have You Discovered Why Customers Call? Eureka!
33. Son of TIA Will Mine Asian Data

34. European Text Analytics Summit, 26-27 April, Amsterdam

35. 2007 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge - deadline May 31
36. VLDB-2007 (Panels and Tutorials), due Apr 4 (Panels and Tutorials)
    European 1st Int. Conf. Data Mining (ECDM -2007), due Apr 5
    IDA 2007, due Apr 6
    Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop, due Apr 6
    IDAMAP 2007: Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology, due Apr 9
    Data Mining Cluster, 2007 INFORMS Annual Conference, due Apr 30
    Inductive Modeling (IWIM 2007), due May 15
    NSF 2007 Visualization Challenge, due May 31
    JMLR Special Topic on Causality, due June 30
    

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. John Naisbitt, thanks to http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/john_naisbitt/