KDnuggets^TM News 08:n09, May 6, 2008

1. Poll Results: Data Mining Certificates
2. New Poll: What Data Mining Software have you used ?
3. Machine Learning Connection group at LinkedIn
4. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n08, Apr 22

5. Explorative data mining powered by Viscovery® for SPSS® users

6. May 15 Webcast for Regression Modelers: Demo of the GenIQ Model(c)

7. Data Mining Course Series for Executives, Managers or Practitioners [ June, Wash-DC | Sept, San Diego ]
8. Predictive Analytics Online Training: Half-Price Special

9. San Francisco, CA: Product Metrics Analyst at Salesforce.com
10. St. Petersburg, FL: Sr. Manager - Direct Marketing Analytics at HSN
11. Washington, D.C. / Baltimore, MD area: Data Mining Programmer / Analyst at Elder Research, Inc.
12. Seattle, WA: Senior Software Engineer - Text Mining at Kiha
13. Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota USA: Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters
14. Hoffman Estates, IL: VP, Customer & Business Analytics at Sears
15. Nationwide, US: Quantitative Analysts & Managers at Analytic Recruiting
16. New York, NY: Manager, CRM/Database Marketing Strategy at Digitas
17. Santee,CA: Project Manager - Statistical Modeler at The Hartford

18. Junior Professor / Post Doc in Machine Learning at U. of Hildesheim, Germany
19. PhD Position in ML/Data Mining or related areas at U. of Hildesheim, Germany
20. 2 PhD Positions in Computational Intelligence, Smart Technology Research Centre, Bournemouth University, UK

21. New Book: Applied Pattern Recognition (Springer)
22. ACM TKDD Vol. 2, No. 1 - ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
23. Historical Notes on the Two Most Popular Prediction Models, and One Not-yet Popular Model
24. Top three database management system (DBMS) trends
25. INFORMS Computing Society News
26. New book: A First Course in Order Statistics

27. Facebook Adds "Lexicon" to Arsenal: A Potent Buzz Pocket Mining Tool
28. UW to lead $6.25 million project creating electronic Sherlock Holmes
29. Intelligent Marketing Systems Launches the Deal Activator(tm) Automated DMS Optimization Technology
30. Sikorsky Aircraft Selects SPSS Predictive Analytics to Improve Customer Satisfaction
31. LexisNexis(R) Risk & Information Analytics Group Announces Alliance with Leading Collections Agency to Develop Advanced Scoring Models
32. Database Mining Lab Introduces Supply Chain Business Intelligence Solutions to Help Companies Create Supplier Performance Scorecards
33. National Science Foundation grants $500,000 to pump up "Musical Brain"
34. Salvation Army CIO uses IT and Data Mining to support nonprofit

35. Sensor-KDD, 2008, due May 16
    Recommender Systems (RecSys'08), due May 18
    Information Retrieval for Advertising, due May 26
    Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS-08), due May 30
    FSDM 08: Feature Selection in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, due Jun 16
    Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, due Sep 10
    
36. Workshops at ECML PKDD 2008 - call for papers
37. Call for Papers: ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

"The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact"

Thomas Henry Huxley, English Biologist, an advocate of Darwin's natural selection theory. 1825-1895. (Thanks to Ross Bettinger)

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