KDnuggets^TM News 08:n19, Oct 7, 2008

1. Poll Results: SQL, Excel - leading tools for data cleaning
2. Effect of financial turmoil on data mining?
3. Darpa's Math Quiz: Model the Brain, Find Biology's Laws, Solve Number Theory 'Holy Grail'
4. New Website Allows Individuals to Express Opinions to Obama and McCain
5. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n18, Sep 23

6. Fractal Analytics on Customer Retention Analytics
7. Disco: open source map-reduce framework

8. Webcasts Oct 16, on-demand: Genetic Regression Modeling & Data Mining with the GenIQ Model(c)
9. Webcast Oct 21: DATA MINING: FAILURE TO LAUNCH

10. Boston, MA: Special Projects Leader - Workforce Analytics & Planning at Liberty Mutual
11. New York, NY: Data Mining Business Analyst at Morgan Stanley
12. Denver, CO: Analytics Specialist at First Data
13. Redmond, WA: Clickfraud Data Mining Scientist at Microsoft, MSN AdCenter

14. Researcher positions at K.U. Leuven, Belgium

15. KDD-08 video: Tutorials, Invited talks, Social Networks, more ...
16. Our Digital Lives, Monitored By A Hidden 'Numerati'
17. Data Fusion: The Ups and Downs of All-Encompassing Digital Profiles
18. Economist on Data mining Know-alls
19. Wall Street's collapse may be computer science's gain

20. LatentView among the winners at INFORMS 2008 Data Mining Contest
21. Tableau Software and Teradata Partnership to Introduce Visual Decisioning to the Masses
22. Better Data-Mining With New Gaming Platform
23. YouTube Insight Now Shows Which Part of Videos are Hottest

24. ICDM '08, Pisa, Italy, Dec 15-19

25. KDD-09 Call For Workshop Proposals, due Jan 19
26. KDD-09: Call for Research Papers (abstracts due Feb 2)
27. KDD-09: Industrial/Government Applications Papers, due Feb 6, 2009
28. KDD-09 call for Panels, due Feb 23
29. KDD'09 Call For Tutorial Proposals, due Feb 23
30. Data Mining and Multiagent Integration (call for chapters), due Nov 1 (proposals)
    MLDM 2009, 6th Int. Conf on Machine Learning and Data Mining, due Jan 6
    Canadian AI 2009, due Jan 23

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