KDnuggets^TM News 08:n23, Dec 9, 2008

1. Poll results: Top Social networks for analytics / data mining
2. New Poll: Which Data Mining related meetings you attended in 2008
3. 2009 SIGKDD Dissertation Awards - nominations due Feb 23
4. Highlights from Data Mining and Analytic Blogs
5. KDD-09: Calls for Papers, Panels, Tutorials, Workshops
6. Attend Predictive Analytics World, San Francisco, Feb 18-19
7. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n22, Nov 25

8. Release of BayesiaLab 4.5, the leading Bayesian Network software
9. ROI Associated With Reduced Error Predictive Modeling
10. New RapidMiner 4.3 release extends functionality and speeds up data analysis processes

11. Dec 10, 17 Webcast: Demonstrating the GenIQ Model

12. Bentonville, AR: Director of Research and Analytics at Sam's Club/Wal-Mart
13. Boston, MA: Director, Management Information (req 3505) at Liberty Mutual
14. Boston, MA: Product Marketing Manager (req 2046) at Liberty Mutual
15. Chicago, IL: Marketing Scientist - Dynamic Analytic Modeling/Statistician at dunnhumbyUSA
16. Boston, MA: Manager, Distribution Strategy at Liberty Mutual
17. New York, NY: quant/data miner/text miner at Daruma Asset Management

18. Lancaster, UK: PhD in Forecasting & Data Mining at Lancaster U. Management School

19. New Chapman/CRC Books in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - special discount till Jan 31
20. James Taylor blog from Oracle BIWA meeting
21. Analytic Outsourcing Review: Dude, Where's My Analysis?
22. Offering New HOPE in the Balance Of Security and Civil Liberties
23. Statistical Learning for BI, Part 1
24. Transactions on Machine Learning and Data Mining

25. "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" Game Provides Clue to Efficiency of Complex Networks
26. Credit risk-based data analytics: Vendors look to capitalize on economic crisis with new or enhanced tools
27. Maltego: When Everyone Can Mine Your Data
28. Data mining boosts Jaeger profits
29. FDA details year's progress on food protection plan
30. InforSense and UK Health Groups to Combat Alzheimers Disease
31. Jodange wins grant to study online data mining tools
32. Collexis Releases Reviewer Finder to Provide for $30 Billion Health Research Grant Industry
33. Neuromarketing: Why Fear Sells, Sex Doesn't
34. Panel: Government data-mining programs lack oversight
35. BeliefNetworks uncovers hidden connections in data

36. KDD-09 Call For Workshop Proposals, due Jan 19, 2009
37. KDD-09 Call for Research Papers (abstracts due Feb 2)
38. KDD-09 Industrial/Government Applications Papers, due Feb 6, 2009
39. KDD-09 call for Panels, due Feb 23
40. KDD'09 Call For Tutorial Proposals, due Feb 23
41. Link Analysis, Counterterrorism and Security, due Dec 31
    SDM 2009 Workshop on Text Mining, due Jan 16
    UAI 2009, due Jan 19 (workshop proposals)
    SIGIR-2009, due Jan 19
    UAI 2009, due Mar 13
    ISMIS'09, due Mar 15 (workshops)
    Metaheuristics for Large Scale Data Mining, due Mar 31
    Discovery Science (DS-2009), due May 10
    

"if I had one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution."

Albert Einstein

see also http://www.wikihow.com/Define-a-Problem

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