KDnuggets^TM News 08:n21, Nov 11, 2008

1. Poll Results: Data Miners favor Obama by a big margin
2. New Poll: OS for Data Mining
3. Call for proposals on hosting the KDD-2010 conference
4. Highlights from Data Mining Blogs
5. IEEE ICDM 2008 Research Contributions Award goes to Anil Jain
6. IEEE ICDM 2008 Outstanding Service Award goes to Vipin Kumar
7. KDD-09 Call For Workshop Proposals, due Jan 19, 2009
8. Attend Predictive Analytics World, San Francisco, Feb 18-19
9. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n20, Oct 21

10. Visalix, a free web application for visual data analysis and clustering

11. Nov 12, 19 Webcast: Demonstrating the GenIQ Model

12. Dec 4-5, Boston: New course - Customer Segmentation Using SAS(r) EM
13. Data Mining Techniques, by Berry and Linoff
14. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ Dec, Las Vegas | Feb, Orlando ]
15. Dec 9-11, Overland Park, KS: Survival Data Analysis Course
16. Applying Survival Analysis for Business Time-to-Event Problems
17. Statistics Courses in 2009

18. San Francisco, Sacramento or Santa Ana, CA: Product Manager - Home Price Index Analyst at LoanPerformance, a division of First American
19. San Francisco, Sacramento or Santa Ana, CA: Product Manager - Mortgage Backed Securities Information at Loan Performance, a division of First American
20. Boston, MA: Director, Management Information at Liberty Mutual
21. Boston, MA: Manager, Distribution Strategy at Liberty Mutual
22. San Francisco, CA: Manager, Campaign Analytics-009Y8 at Gap
23. Wellington, New Zealand: Senior Customer Insight Analyst at ANZ National Bank Limited

24. Ithaca, NY: Open Rank Position at Dept. of Statistical Science, Cornell
25. Yorktown Heights, NY: IBM Herman Goldstine Postdoc Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences
26. Rochester, NY: Computer Science Faculty Positions at RIT

27. A Genetic Programming Model: Data-defined, Data Mining, Variable Selection, and Decile Optimization
28. Not All Social Network Users Alike - Four Types of LinkedIn Users - Which Type are you?
29. Interview with Michael Zeller, CEO and co-founder of Zementis, Inc.

30. Mining for data Interview: Spying on ourselves for the Numerati
31. Banks Mine Data and Woo Troubled Borrowers
32. Digital Marketing Layoff Tracker
33. US military targets social nets
34. Reality Mining: You May Soon Know if You're Hogging the Discussion
35. Can Data Mining Save America's Schools?
36. Linguamatics Text Mining Platform Chosen by TNO for Food Safety Alerting
37. Popular free Web analytics service is opened to all
38. Culling Clues from Claims
39. Yahoo's Hadoop software transforming the way data is analyzed
40. Jingwei International Financial Results for Q3 2008

41. IEEE ICDM-2008, Dec 15-19, Pisa, Italy
    WSDM 2009, Barcelona, Feb 9-12

42. Modeling, Managing, and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (M3SN), due Nov 18
    Open Source in Data Mining workshop (OSDM'09), due Dec 22
    MLDM 2009, due Jan 6
    Video Mining, due Jan 15
    IIS 2009, due Feb 16
    ISMIS'09, due Mar 5, 2009
    

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