KDnuggets^TM News 08:n17, Sep 9, 2008

1. Poll Results: European data miners have the longest vacations
2. New Poll: Types of Data Analyzed/Mined in the past 12 months
3. Fifth annual UCSD data mining contest winners
4. Semmelweis Reflex - amazing story of discoveries ignored because they contradicted entrenched beliefs
5. Can statistics be funny, on average?
6. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n16, Aug 21
7. NIH "Eureka" funding related to discovery mining

8. Parsed RELR Substantially Reduces Variables in Reduced Error Logistic Regression

9. Infocentricity Sep 9 Webinar: Demystifying Behavior Scoring
10. Webcasts Sep 17, 24: Genetic Regression Modeling & Data Mining with the GenIQ Model(c)

11. Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web
12. Data Mining Course Series: Strategy, Methods & Application [ Sept, San Diego | Dec, Las Vegas ]

13. Chicago, IL: Manager, Digital Media Analytics at Digitas
14. Charlotte, NC: Director, Insight and Innovation Advanced Capabilities at Wachovia Corporation
15. Seattle, WA or New York, NY: Principal Scientist at Mindset Media
16. New York, NY: VP/Director, Marketing Strategy & Analysis at Digitas
17. Indianapolis, IN: Computational Biologist - Plant Genetics & Biotechnology R&D at Dow AgroSciences
18. Seattle, WA: Senior Software Engineer in Data Modeling at Kiha Software - Mobile Start up
19. Boston, MA: Account Manager at Arnold Worldwide

20. Melbourne, Australia: Research Fellow, Inductive Constraint Programming, at Monash U.

21. Claremont Database Research - DB Leading Experts Look Ahead
22. Top data mining websites ranked by popularity
23. Using Data Mining for a Reality Check
24. Genetic Data Mining: The Correlation Coefficient
25. NYT on Many-Eyes: New Ways to Sift Data
26. video lecture: Generalizing Random Forests to other methods
27. Cross-validation/bootstrapping worthless in medical practice?

28. Business intelligence, data architecture jobs still 'hot' despite weak economy
29. Viscovery in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Mining
30. Business intelligence, data mining maximize direct marketing for Intellidyn
31. RaQualia selects Miner3D for its visual data analysis platform
32. SPSS New Viz Designer(tm): Intuitive Visualizations for Predictive Analytics

33. Computational Intelligence and Data Mining 2009 (CIDM�09), due Sep 21
    Modeling, Managing, and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (M3SN), due Nov 18
    FLAIRS-2009 Special Track on Data Mining, due Nov 23, 2008
    Leipzig ICDM 2009, due Dec 1
    

All data can be viewed as a social network, parts of the network just have very sparse connections.

David Jensen, at KDD-08.

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