KDnuggets^TM News 09:n04, Mar 4, 2009

1. Poll Results: additional features in KDnuggets
2. New Poll: Text Analytics Usage
3. Follow KDnuggets on Twitter
4. Data Mining Crossword Puzzle
5. KDnuggets Exclusive: March Text Analytics New and Noteworthy from Seth Grimes
6. Data Mining / Analytic Blog Highlights
7. PAKDD 2009 Data Mining Competition
8. Please Participate in 3rd Annual Data Mining Survey
9. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n03, Feb 10

10. KNIME and Zementis Announce Strategic Partnership

11. Upcoming Online Statistics and Data Mining Courses
12. 2-day course: Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web
13. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ April, Las Vegas | June, Washington-DC ]
14. Summer School NN2009: Neural Networks in Classification, Regression And Data Mining, July 6-10, Porto

15. Portland, OR 97202: Director of Analysis, Customer / Shopper Insights and Analytics at dunnhumbyUSA
16. Boston, MA: Segment Marketing Manager (req 5334) at Liberty Mutual
17. Boston, MA: Manager, Distribution Strategy (req 5335) at Liberty Mutual
18. Warsaw, Poland: Senior Quantitative Analyst (SQA_01) at The Bunge Mathematical Institute
19. San Jose, CA: Research Programmer: Insight - Text Mining Research Programmer at The PwC Center for Advanced Research (CAR)
20. San Francisco, Sacramento or Santa Ana, CA: Research Analyst at LoanPerformance, a division of First American CoreLogic (FACL)
21. New York, NY: Java Engineer - Information Retrieval at Conductor, Inc
22. Boston, MA: Sr/Direct Marketing Analyst (req 5565) at Liberty Mutual
23. Boston, MA: Senior Business Analyst - Affinity Marketing (req 5637) at Liberty Mutual

24. Ithaca, NY: Postdoc position in Machine Learning/Statistics at Cornell
25. Ireland: Postdoc in Social and Mobile Device Networks at National U. of Ireland, Galway
26. Rennes, France: Postdoc in ML/Data Mining at INRIA

27. Information about DMQL?

28. PAW: Reports from the Feb Conference - Next One in Sept
29. New Book: Managing and Mining Uncertain Data
30. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration - new home, no article fees!
31. Companies get ROI, Automation and Insights With Predictive Analytics
32. Zicari Interview with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales

33. Self-service business intelligence tools failing to make headway at most organizations
34. IBM, Microsoft and Oracle top Gartner's business intelligence platform rankings
35. Data Mining in the Meltdown: the Last, Best Hope?
36. FTC: No Privacy Laws For Behavioral Targeting
37. Surprising uses of corporate data mining
38. Science gleans 60TB of behavior data from Everquest 2 logs
39. Twitter's Analytical Business Plan
40. SAS and "R"
41. Fayyad's new companies in SEM and Data Mining
42. TIBCO Delivers Predictive Analytics to a Wide Range of Business Applications
43. Yahoo! Web Analytics Leaps Ahead of Google Analytics for Enterprise Use
44. Revenue Science Changes Name to AudienceScience to Show Off Its Ad Network
45. Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques

46. SIGKDD 2009: Call for Demos - proposals due Apr 17, 2009
47. Attend SBP09: Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, Phoenix, Mar 31-Apr 1
48. The International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
49. Data Mining Cup 2009 - call for international speakers, due Feb 28
    Social Computing (SocialCom-09), due Mar 1
    Active Learning for Natural Language Processing, due Mar 6
    ECML PKDD 2009 workshop proposals, due Mar 8
    Cross-media Information Access and Mining IJCAI-2009 workshop, due Mar 13
    ISMIS'09, due Mar 15
    Global Modeling Using Local Patterns, due Mar 21
    Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval, due Mar 27
    Educational Data Mining (EDM'09), due Mar 31
    Metaheuristics for Large Scale Data Mining, due Mar 31
    Knowledge Discovery and Decision Systems in Biomedicine, due Apr 1
    Text-Based Information Retrieval, due Apr 1
    ECML PKDD 2009, due Apr 3
    ILP, MLG, SRL 2009, due Apr 3
    Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning, due Apr 8
    IEEE ICDM Workshop proposals, due Apr 13
    Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology, due Apr 14
    Surveillance Technologies and Early Warning Systems: Data Mining Applications for Risk Detection, due Apr 15 (chapter proposals)
    CEAS 2009: Conference on Email And Anti-Spam, due Apr 15
    Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, due Apr 15
    KDIR: International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, due Apr 21
    Data Mining and Pattern Analysis in Computational Bioscience, due May 1
    British AI-2009, due Jun 1
    14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, due Jun 7
    Workshop and 1st Competition on Plagiarism Detection, due Jun 7
    ICDM: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, due Jun 26
    

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