KDnuggets^TM News 09:n19, Oct 7, 2009

1. Poll Results: Privacy Concern in Social Network
2. New Poll: Targeted advertising - evil, effective, or both?
3. Pascal Challenge on Large Scale Hierarchical Text Classification - change of dates
4. AusDM Analytic Challenge - best way to combine different models
5. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n18, Sep 23

6. Pervasive Software Demonstrates Parallel Data Mining at PAW
7. Get your free trial of FICO Xpress 7 Optimization Suite
8. SupplierEvaluations.com launches new on-line community of buying professionals

9. Oct 28: Data Mining: Failure to Launch [ Free Webinar]

10. ACM talk OpenStreetMap (open source maps), October 21, Cupertino, CA
11. Expert Training Is Within Your Reach

12. Hartford, CT: Second Vice President, Research & Modeling - Personal Insurance, job 788299 at Travelers
13. New York, NY: Advanced Analytics, Senior Director at Coach, Inc.
14. Chicago, IL: Disability Program and Data Analysis Officer (applications due Oct 9) at Railroad Retirement Board
15. New York, NY: Data Scientist at Media 6 Degrees
16. Redmond, WA: Senior Software Developer in Test, Bing at Microsoft
17. Redmond, WA: Software Development Engineer in Test, Bing at Microsoft
18. Redmond, WA: Senior Test Lead, Bing at Microsoft
19. Redmond, WA: Test Architect, Bing at Microsoft
20. Bellevue, WA: Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Bing at Microsoft
21. Bellevue, WA: Software Development Engineer in Test, Bing at Microsoft
22. Stamford, CT: Quantitative Investment Analyst at LYZ Capital Advisors LLC

23. Sydney, Australia: Lecturer in Data Mining at UTS
24. Charlottesville, VA: Post-doc Genetics Biostatistician at U. of Virginia
25. PhD Studentship - Supercomputing and Data Mining, U. of Central Lancashire, UK

26. M2009 Data Mining Conference, Oct 26-27, 2009, Las Vegas
27. Netflix Prize Pioneer to Speak at Predictive Analytics World DC
28. Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Nov 4-6, Seattle

29. Two Thirds of U.S. Users Oppose Behaviorally Targeted Ads
30. How the Netflix Prize Was Won
31. New Book: Modeling and Data Mining in Blogosphere
32. Report: Lack of eHealth standards, privacy concerns costing lives
33. Rethinking the Long Tail Theory: How to Define 'Hits' and 'Niches'
34. New Book: Scientific Data Mining: A Practical Perspective
35. Newly Declassified Files Detail Massive FBI Data-Mining Project

36. Humedica: New Data Analytics Firm
37. Microsoft�s adCenter GM & Search Researcher Eric Brill Moves To eBay
38. Microsoft Tests Social Media Monitoring Product
39. Machine Learning "Protest" at G20
40. Data-Mining Medical Records Could Predict Domestic Violence

41. KDD-2010 Call for Workshop Proposals (due Feb 1)
42. SIGMOD/PODS-2010, due Oct 29 (abstracts)
    Social Learning, due Nov 7
    Data Mining in Agriculture (DMA'2010), due Apr 28, 2010
    

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