KDnuggets^TM News 09:n14, Jul 29, 2009

1. Netflix Prize contest dramatic finish - and winner is ...
2. Poll Results: Should Prescription Data Mining be banned?
3. New Poll: Will machines outsmart humans and can we control it?
4. IBM buys SPSS for $1.2 billion
5. Text Analytics New & Noteworthy, July 2009
6. 2009 IEEE ICDM Research Contributions and Outstanding Service Awards
7. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n13, Jul 16

8. SupplierEvaluations: B2B community for Supply Chain Management
9. Zementis ADAPA ready for PMML 4.0

10. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ August, Denver | October, Wash-DC ]
11. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Sep 14-15, Charlottesville, VA

12. Chicago area, IL: Supply Chain Analytical Team - multiple positions at a large manufacturing company
13. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Computational Biologist-Systems Biology at Dow AgroSciences LLC
14. Rockville, MD: Specialist-KDD at FINRA
15. Cambridge, MA: Senior Manager of Analytics - Online Advertising at Akamai

16. Seattle, WA: Postdoc in ML/Bioinformatics at U. Washington

17. SAS M2009 is set for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, October 26-27
18. Program Announced for Predictive Analytics World - Oct in DC

19. 6 BI Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
20. Latest from KDnuggets Data Mining Forums
21. Digital Eyes Will Chart Baseball�s Unseen Skills
22. New Book: Data Mining X: Data Mining, Protection, Detection and Other Security Technologies
23. Linear Probability, Logit, and Probit Models: How Do They Differ?
24. Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man
25. New Book: Modeling and Data Mining in Blogosphere

26. The Problem with Free Analytics is Still People and Process
27. Columnar databases, appliances, cloud computing top BI trends
28. Razorfish Proposes Social Influence Score
29. Yale researchers create database-Hadoop hybrid
30. Staking out newspaper survival in Web analytics
31. Xerox unveils E-mail Analytics tool
32. Mixpanel: A faster, simpler Google Analytics?
33. New Company Finds Buried Treasure In Human Resource Databases

34. NASA Intelligent Data Understanding, due Aug 15
    INFORMS Data Mining Student Paper Award, due Aug 15
    Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), due Aug 30
    Privacy-Preserving Sharing of Sensitive Information, due Oct 15
    Social Learning, due Nov 7
    

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