KDnuggets^TM News 08:n16, Aug 21, 2008

1. Poll Results: recorded presentations do NOT replace attending conferences
2. New Poll: How much vacation time you take in 2008?
3. academia.edu - what does it do?
4. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n15, Aug 7

5. GPeerReview - a tool for making digital-signatures using data mining

6. Aug 27 Webcast for Demonstration of the GenIQ Model - no charge!

7. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Sep 15-16, Charlottesville, VA
8. Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web
9. Data Mining Course Series: Strategy, Methods & Application [ Sept, San Diego | Dec, Las Vegas ]
10. Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining, Oct 6-7, Boston, MA
11. Predictive Analytics World Conference, Feb 18-19 (Save-the-Date) & Call-for-Speakers

12. Atlanta, GA or Bellevue, WA: Senior Analytic Consultant at First Data
13. Atlanta, GA or Bellevue, WA: Director, Analytic Consulting Services at First Data
14. Redmond, WA: Senior Data Analyst at Microsoft Online Services Group
15. New York, NY: Junior SAS Consultant at Detica
16. New York, NY: Senior SAS Consultant at Detica
17. Redmond, WA: Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
18. Redmond, WA: Lead Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft
19. Redmond, WA: Microsoft adCenter Labs Researcher at Microsoft
20. Redmond, WA: Group Program Manager at Microsoft
21. New York, NY: Data Miner, Research & Development at The New York Times

22. Oak Ridge, TN: Postdoc Positions at ORNL

23. ACM TKDD: Call for papers and current issues
24. Data Mining: An Ill-defined Concept
25. SIGEVOlution Volume 3 Issue 1 is Out Now!

26. 3M Award to GA Tech to Analyze Massive Data Sets Using Visual Analytics
27. MoneyMaker, an Advanced Data Mining Tool for Auto Dealers
28. RSTAT from Information Builders: Entering the data mining fray
29. Health Discovery Corporation's Newest U.S. Patent Covers SVM-Based Analysis of Medical Images
30. Analytics Key to Proactive Detection and Prevention of Fraud
31. Jingwei International Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
32. Visual Numerics(r) Announces Availability of PyIMSL(tm)

33. RPI CS Day : Data Mining and Machine Learning, Sep 22

34. NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding, due Aug 27
    PAKDD-09, due Sep 9
    Predictive Analytics World - Call for Speakers, due Sep 19
    SDM-09, due Oct 3
    

Every researcher attempting to "explain" history via data-mining read Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy and history (The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, Ed.)

Jonah Lehrer

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox

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