KDnuggets^TM News 08:n18, Sep 23, 2008

1. Poll Results: More free text, less music, web, XML
2. New Poll: Tools/languages for data manipulation/cleaning
3. KDD Cup 2009: Call for Proposals
4. Highlights from Data Mining / Analytic Blogs
5. IEEE ICDM08 Data Mining Contest: monitoring the nuclear-test-ban treaty
6. 2nd Annual Rexer Analytics Data Miner Survey - Summary Report
7. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n17, Sep 9

8. Eaagle: Full Text Mapper

9. Infocentricity Sep 29 Webinar: Demystifying Behavior Scoring
10. Webcasts Oct 2, 8: Genetic Regression Modeling & Data Mining with the GenIQ Model(c)

11. New Courses to debut at SAS M2008

12. New York, NY: Research Engineer, Search Analytics at Conductor, Inc.
13. San Diego, CA, USA: Division Director, SDSC - Job 47049 at University of California, San Diego
14. Omaha, NE: Data Mining Manager at West Asset Management
15. Bellevue, WA: Advanced Technologist at Boeing
16. Santa Monica, CA: Quantitative Algorithms Researcher at Cars.com
17. London, U.K.: Mathematical Modeller/fraud analytics at Alaric Systems Ltd

18. Melbourne, Australia: Postdoc Position in Data Mining at U. Melbourne

19. Request: Analysis on data that contain zero "0" value

20. Fraudsters hiding under an avalanche of data
21. Event Processing Meets Text: Reuters at Gartner
22. Knowledge Management Research & Practice journal
23. Book looks into the 'numerati' who mine our buying data

24. U.S. Has Scion/GMC Divide
25. RiverGlass Inc: Searching for profit
26. Angoss Launches "Got Leads" Quick Start Analytics Program for salesforce.com
27. SAS(r) skills give high schoolers leg up in college, work force
28. KXEN V5.0 Analytic Data Management
29. Pentaho Announces the Availability of Predictive Model Markup Language
30. New IBM center to focus on social software
31. SPSS Predictive Analytics Significantly Reduces Customer Churn

32. ACM GIS 2008, Nov 5-7, 2008

33. EGC'2009, due Oct 3
    SDM'09, due Oct 3
    WWW 2009, due Oct 10 (workshops)
    WWW 2009, due Nov 3 (papers)
    Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-2009), due Dec 1
    

The issues with Fannie Mae, Frddie Mac, Merryl Lynch, Lehman, AIG, and Countrywide were fairly obvious. Since March I have been predicting these type of failures by using the ratio of mortage based securities in a companies portfolio to total capital under management (mortage based securties/total capital under management)

Alberto Roldan, http://atomai.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-markets-credit-crisis.html

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