KDnuggets^TM News 07:n23, Dec 4, 2007

1. Poll Results: Number of data miners in your company or organization
2. New Poll: Data mining related meetings you attended in 2007?
3. Ronny Kohavi Interview: on MLC++, SGI, and MineSet
4. Ronny Kohavi on lessons learned at Blue Martini
5. Ronny Kohavi on bridging the gap between research and industry
6. Ronny Kohavi advice for students and young researchers in DM
7. Anonymity of Netflix Prize Dataset Broken
8. SC07 Analytics Challenge winner
9. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n22, Nov 20

10. Miner3D Release 7 comes with a new user interface
11. Viscovery releases version 5 of its visual data mining suite
12. On "Data Mining Tools Poll" - RapidMiner is a version of Weka

13. Dec 13 Webcast: Data Mining Intro for Beginners, Vendor-Neutral

14. Jersey City, NJ: Data and Analytics Specialist / Data Management Associate at ISO
15. Charleston, SC: Data Mining / Machine Learning Scientist at BeliefNetworks
16. East Hartford, CT: Staff Engineer/Senior Research Engineer: Data Mining/Diagnostics (64284) at United Technologies Corporation
17. New York area: Chief Scientist at a well-financed and rapidly growing venture
18. Seattle area, WA: Live Search Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft Live Search
19. Brighton, UK: NLP and Machine learning research and development position at Magpie

20. First Annual Survey of Top Marketing Trends for 2008

21. Cellphone records reveal new patterns of human activity
22. CureHunter.com Aims to Distill Evidence Based Medicine into 1 Mouse Click
23. MySpace Hypertargeting vs Facebook Beacon: Which one is creepier?
24. Virgin Media Dials Up the Right Numbers with KXEN
25. Web Analytics Industry Shake-Up Causing Customers to Re-evaluate Requirements
26. Social Networking for Zebras

27. Workshop Proposals, ECAI 2008, due Dec 10
    CP/AI-OR 2008: Integration of AI and OR for Constraint Programming, due Dec 17
    Link Analysis, Counterterrorism, and Security (LACTS 2008), due Dec 28
    8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining Leipzig-ICDM-2008, due Jan 21
    Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge-based Techniques in Medicine, due Jan 28
    Open Source Intelligence and Web Mining, due Feb 15
    ECAI 2008, due Feb 25
    CIARP'2008: Pattern Recognition, due Mar 31
    Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data, due June 20
    
28. NSF and AAAS Announce 6th Annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

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Arthur C. Nielsen

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