KDnuggets^TM News 07:n15, Aug 7, 2007

1. Poll results: Types of Data Analyzed/Mined
2. New Poll: Is "Data Mining" term tainted?
3. ACM SIGKDD 2007 Innovation Award to Usama M. Fayyad
4. ACM SIGKDD 2007 Service Award to Robert Grossman
5. CFP: KDD Cup & Workshop 2007, Aug 12 at KDD-07, San Jose
6. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n14, July 23
7. IEEE ICDM Data Mining Contest (ICDM DMC 2007), submissions due Sep 26

8. Free Data Mining Software: RapidMiner 4.0 (formerly YALE)

9. Webcasts Aug 9/Sep 6: Intro to Data Mining for Absolute Beginners (no charge)

10. Online Data Mining Training: CART, MARS, TreeNet, RandomForests
11. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Sep 17-18, Charlottesville, VA
12. Data Mining Course Series: Strategy, Methods & Application [ Sept, San Diego | Dec, Las Vegas ]
13. Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining- Washington

14. Lanham, MD: Strategy Director at Merkle
15. Munich, Germany: SPSS -- Senior Sales Engineer at SPSS
16. San Jose, CA: Data Layer Lead, Machine Learning Platform at eBay
17. San Francisco, CA/Remote Possible: Sr. Statistician at ISO Innovative Analytics
18. Emeryville, CA: Analytic Software Lead Scientist at Fair Isaac Corporation
19. St. Petersburg, FL: Sr Analyst - Business at HSN
20. Kirkland, WA: Senior Scientist - Machine Learning, Data-Mining and Statistics at Inrix, Inc.
21. Indianapolis, IN: Computational Biologist at Dow AgroSciences
22. Redmond, WA: Software Engineer in Live Search Data Mining team at Microsoft, Live Search Core Relevance group
23. Redmond, WA: Software Engineer, Web Search Relevance at Microsoft
24. Redmond, WA: Software Engineer, Live Search Dynamic Ranking at Microsoft

25. Belgium: PH.D. student job offers in IR at K.U. Leuven (deadline Aug 19)
26. Luxembourg: Postdoc/ Doctoral Scholarships in Mining of Data Streams
27. Portugal: Health Informatics advanced postdoc at LIACC

28. Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over Spying
29. Identifying and Overcoming Common Data Mining Mistakes
30. The Future of Search - Interview with Peter Norvig

31. Breakthrough Approach Matches Tumor Profiles to Best Possible Anticancer Treatments
32. Chance and BI - Fooled by a Random Black Swan
33. Data Mining Figured In Dispute Over NSA
34. Digital Reasoning® Awarded Patent for Discovering Meaning of Words Solely from Data
35. Teradata Warehouse Miner 5.1 Enables Businesses to Predict the Future

36. Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, due Sep 1, 2007
    

Lady's skirt principle applied to ad headlines:

ad copy needs to be long enough to cover the essentials and short enough to be interesting.

Bryan Eisenberg, ClickZ

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