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• Director, Customer Analytics at Western Union, San Francisco, CA [Jobs] - Feb 3, 2012.
  responsible for consulting with the global marketing teams and other global business units to understand key business challenges and opportunities, set key analytic direction, strategies and tactical plans.
• Analytics Magazine: Focus on Healthcare [Publications] - Feb 3, 2012.
  The current issue of INFORMS Analytics Magazine (Jan/Feb) focuses on healthcare analytics. Why embrace of analytics is crucial to the paradigm shift from "volume" to "value" and more.
• Manager, Analytics & Reporting at Cablevision Systems Corp., Bethpage, NY, USA [Jobs] - Feb 3, 2012.
  providing thought and directional leadership for enterprise-wide reporting solutions, which deepen the use of Analytics and MicroStrategy tools and broaden the use of new technologies for delivery of Cable and Communications STB reporting application.
• Stevens MS in Business Intelligence and Analytics [Courses, Events] - Feb 3, 2012.
  MS in BI and Analytics is a 36 credit-degree, designed for part/full-time students who have a BA in a technical field and want to pursue a career in analytics.
• Data Wrangler at Yieldbot, Maynard, MA [Jobs] - Feb 3, 2012.
  Join an analytics team working on some of the hardest problems you'll encounter, on massive data sets, and using bleeding-edge tools to do it, such as Cascalog - a Clojure DSL tied to the Cascading API on Hadoop.
• The Koblenz Network Collection [Software] - Feb 3, 2012.
  KONECT is a project to collect large network datasets to support research in the area of network mining. KONECT has over 100 datasets from sources such as arXiv, Amazon, Digg, DBLP, Enron, Flickr, Twitter, and Youtuve. KONECT also provides code to generate network datasets from the Web.
• Senior Application Developer (NLP / Big Data Analytics) at PredictivEdge Analytics, Blue Bell, PA (outside Philadelphia) [Jobs] - Feb 2, 2012.
  Looking for a talented, energetic individual with demonstrated excellence in delivering robust solutions based on leading-edge technologies in the field of social media analytics, natural language processing, cognitive & neuroscience.
• PostDoc in Experimental Evaluation at at U. of Melbourne, Australia [Academic] - Feb 2, 2012.
  excellent statistics and CS, and a healthy dose of "evaluative scepticism", with emphasis on the areas of machine learning, machine translation, and parallel programming.
• Course: Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web [Courses, Events] - Feb 2, 2012.
  this concentrated training program, covers the techniques, tips and pointers you need in order to run a successful predictive analytics and data mining initiative.
• 5 low-profile startups that could change the face of big data [News Briefs] ( comments) - Feb 2, 2012.
  These five startups, either in stealth mode or just out of it, that could help take Hadoop and its ilk to the promised land of easy creation of Big Data apps.
• Sr. Software Design Engineer, Recommendations at AMAZON.COM, Seattle, WA [Jobs] - Feb 1, 2012.
  This role is in a small start-up initiative within the Recommendations team, with initial focus on building a next-generation prototype. Requires a willingness to deal with ambigiuity and find out of the box solutions.
• PAN 2012 Competitions: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Wikipedia flaws [Competitions] - Feb 1, 2012.
  3 new competitions: Plagiarism Detection based on the ClueWeb09; Author ID: identifying sexual predators in chat logs; Quality Flaw Prediction in Wikipedia: which articles?
• Director, Market Research at Cablevision, Bethpage, NY [Jobs] - Feb 1, 2012.
  responsible for the implementation of new custom primary market research to track customer satisfaction across all facets of the customer's relationship with the diverse Optimum services.
• Social Media Analytics Expert Interviews, part 2 [Publications] - Feb 1, 2012.
  Interview covers important social media analytics topics from POV of service providers, including insights into their customers, what they currently know, and what they still need to learn about social analytics.
• Manager, Market Research Analytics at Cablevision, Bethpage, NY [Jobs] - Feb 1, 2012.
  responsible for supporting all primary consumer research initiatives and data analytics for the Cable and Communications business including Customer Advisory Panel and proprietary custom research.
• Online MS in Predictive Analytics at Northwestern [Courses, Events] - Feb 1, 2012.
  The MSPA online program provides a thorough grounding in advanced analytics and practical application, along with leadership and communication skills. Application Deadline: April 15.
• Top news, jobs in January [Features] - Feb 1, 2012.
  KDDCUP 2012; 5 Big Data Startups to Watch in 2012;
  Top jobs: 10+ outstanding ML researchers at GE Global Research, San Ramon, CA; ML and DM Research Scientists at ATnT Labs, NJ and CA.
• Additions to KDnuggets Directory in January [Features] - Feb 1, 2012.
  New companies, datasets, education, meetings, software, blogs added to KDnuggets Directory
• Research Scientist at RSA Laboratories, Cambridge MA [Jobs] - Jan 31, 2012.
  focus on machine learning / data mining for security applications and computer systems security.
• James Taylor Workshop (Mar 8, SF): Business Friendly Data Mining with Decision Management [Courses, Events] - Jan 31, 2012.
  This workshop will show you how to improve business/analytics/IT collaboration and understanding; Clarify the data mining goals; Enable rapid deployment of models in IT/operational systems.
• How CrowdANALYTIX is redefining analytics with crowdsourcing [News Briefs] - Jan 31, 2012.
  Indian Startup CrowdANALYTIX has found a unique way to improve algorithms of analytic solutions by leveraging the power of the crowd. For Kaggle, crowdsourcing analytics is a business model. For CrowdAanalytix, crowdsourcing of analytics is a delivery model.
• KDD-2012 Call for Research/Industry/Gov Papers, due Feb 10 [Meetings] - Jan 30, 2012.
  18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 12-16, 2012, Beijing, China - the premier conference in the field. Papers due Feb 10.
• Text analytics set to become a $1B market place [News Briefs] - Jan 30, 2012.
  Text analytics grew 25 per cent last year, creating a $1 Billion market. Text Analytics Summit (London, April 23-24) will focus on how to improve consumer insight to drive competitive advantage. Learn more.
• Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning/Text Mining at iCelero, San Jose, CA preferred [Jobs] - Jan 30, 2012.
  top-notch software engineer to lead our distributed machine learning product development. This role is ideal for a software engineer who has both domain experiences in machine learning, text mining and a strong track record in developing code used directly in the end SW products.
• Big Data is More Than Hadoop [Publications] - Jan 30, 2012.
  Recent findings from Ventana benchmark research on Big Data are illuminating. Over half the participating organizations process more than 10 terabytes of data.
• KDnuggets Offer for Predictive Analytics World March 2012 in San Francisco [Meetings] - Jan 29, 2012.
  Exclusive Offer for KDnuggets Readers: Predictive Analytics World Savings until Feb 4 with special code. PAW focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. Learn how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and what kind of business impact it delivers,
• Data Scientist, Analytics at Twitter, San Francisco, CA [Jobs] - Jan 29, 2012.
  use statistical analysis and data mining techniques to help us better understand how users engage with Twitter, determine whether new and experimental features should be launched, and measure Twitter's success across the entire organization.
• Data mining intern at Intel, Phoenix, AZ [Jobs] - Jan 29, 2012.
  Set up a data mining sw infrastructure on our digital signage (Video analytics) platform which we can showcase to advertisers. Set up a fundamental set of API between video analytics and data mining.
• Top news for Jan 22-28 [Features] - Jan 29, 2012.
  KDDCUP 2012; Social Media Analytics at PAW/TAW, SF, Mar 6-7; Microsoft plan for Hadoop and big data
  Top jobs: Data Scientist, Trulia, SF; 10+ ML researchers at GE, San Ramon, CA.
• Microsoft plan for Hadoop and big data [Software] - Jan 28, 2012.
  Hadoop is a central part of Microsoft data strategy. Eventually, Microsoft wants to create a purely open source Hadoop on Windows.
• Big Data Tools: HPCC vs Hadoop [Software] ( comments) - Jan 27, 2012.
  Four key factors that differentiate HPCC from Hadoop: HPCC Enterprise Control Language, Roxie Delivery Engine, Enterprise Ready, and Beyond MapReduce
• Develop an automated scoring algorithm for student-written essays. [Competitions] - Jan 27, 2012.
  Hewlett is appealing to data scientists and machine learning specialists to help develop fast, effective and affordable solutions for automated grading of student-written essays. A total of $100K in prizes on Kaggle platform.
• James Taylor First Look - Zementis Update [Software] - Jan 27, 2012.
  Zementis has a vendor-neutral approach to modeling based on PMML, with four deployment options: ADAPA for RT decision making as a cloud, embedded or server deployment, and Universal in-DB PMML Plug-in. Zementis is also at the forefront of the one of the main debates about PMML.
• Research Interns, Language Processing and Text Mining at Leibniz Institute (DIPF), Frankfurt am Main, Germany [Academic] - Jan 27, 2012.
  looking for graduate students working on language processing, text mining, machine learning, and data visualization, with substantial theoretical knowledge, excellent problem-solving and programming (Java) skills
• Clustify 3.0 Adds Integration with a Broad Range of Databases and e-Discovery Tools [News Briefs] - Jan 26, 2012.
  featuring the ability to analyze documents stored in virtually any database and export cluster information back into the database as additional columns that can be used by many review platforms and e-discovery tools.
• Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining III, Mar 15-16, Palo Alto, CA [Courses, Events] - Jan 26, 2012.
  This two-day course from Stanford Professors Hastie and Robert Tibshirani gives a detailed overview of statistical models for data mining, inference and prediction, emphasizing the tools useful for tackling modern-day data analysis problems.
• Vice President, Informatics at Verisk Health, Payment Accuracy Division, South Jordan, UT [Jobs] - Jan 25, 2012.
  Verisk Health provides healthcare payers with a suite of claims editing, fraud prevention and clinical validation solutions, including real-time analytics. VP will establish an encompassing analytics vision spanning data warehousing, business intelligence, and predictive analytics competencies.
• Text analytics report unlocks business critical applications [Publications] - Jan 25, 2012.
  This newly released text analytics report (free) looks at commercial applications, including multi-lingual tools, to help drive competitive advantage and has insight from four pioneers in data analytics.
• Data Scientist, Trulia Data Science Lab at Trulia, San Francisco, CA [Jobs] - Jan 25, 2012.
  Join Trulia's new Data Science Lab! Work with massive datasets - trillions of user actions and millions of homes. Work on (and help build) a team that loves AI and visualizations.
• Amazon Launches Big Data Service [News Briefs] - Jan 25, 2012.
  DynamoDB cloud service, based on Amazon's own big data handling experience, offers NoSQL database capabilities and storage built for speed.
• Financial Modeler at Chase, Garden City, NY (Auto Finance Headquarters) [Jobs] - Jan 24, 2012.
  development of statistical/mathematical models, procedures, and statistical analyses connected to pricing automobile loans and leases.
• KDnuggets 12:n02, KDD Cup 2012; Analytics Jobs, Postdocs; Social Analytics Meetings; DM Education [Publications] - Jan 24, 2012.
  Latest analytics/data mining news, including Features (6) | Courses, Events (2) | Webcasts (3) | Software (2) | Jobs (14) | Academic (6) | Competitions (4) | Meetings (2) | Publications (2) | NewsBriefs (6) | CFP (8)
• IDC: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft Lead Business Analytics Market [News Briefs] - Jan 23, 2012.
  Oracle held the top spot during first half of 2011 with 20 percent global market share and 17.9 percent semiannual year-over-year growth. 14 vendors managed to surpass $100 million in global BA revenue during the first half of 2011
• IBM rolls out new social analytics tools [Software] - Jan 23, 2012.
  IBM social analytics tools will aggregate unstructured data and find signals to highlight everything from employee sentiment to market trends via unstructured data, SAP applications and Facebook posts.
• Social Media Analytics at Text Analytics World San Francisco, Mar 6-7 [Meetings] - Jan 23, 2012.
  Text Analytics World, Mar 6-7 (SF), colocated with PAW, features cutting edge social media analytic methods and techniques.
• MS in Predictive Analytics and more at DAMPA: DePaul Center for DM and Predictive Analytics [Courses, Events] - Jan 23, 2012.
  DePaul DAMPA is an applied research center dedicated to promoting and supporting research projects, academic programs and industry collaborations in data mining and predictive analytics. DePaul Master of Science in Predictive Analytics prepares graduates for leadership roles in the fast-growing field of data analytics.
• Postdoc in Data Mining at Monash U., Melbourne, Australia [Academic] - Jan 23, 2012.
  a motivated and creative postdoctoral researcher to join the Monash University data mining group working with Professors Geoff Webb and Ann Nicholson on discovering associations in the context of background knowledge.
• Webinar: Data Mining: Failure to Launch [Feb 15, Mar 8] [Webcasts] - Jan 23, 2012.
  Learn how to get started with predictive modeling and overcome strategic and tactical limitations that cause data mining projects to fall short of their potential.
• Audiovox Car Connection is Powered by Agnik Analytics [News Briefs] - Jan 23, 2012.
  New Location Based Services Systems focus on protecting family and providing significant in-vehicle monitoring and management capability
• Top news for Jan 15-21 [Features] - Jan 22, 2012.
  KDDCUP 2012; Amazon Access Competition; Poll Results: Hottest Analytics/DM Topics in 2012;
  Top jobs: 10+ ML researchers at GE; Big Data Analytics at Wipro, Bangalore.
• KDD-2012 Industry/Government Track CFP, papers due Feb 10 [Meetings] - Jan 21, 2012.
  I/G track solicits papers describing implementations of KDD solutions relevant to industrial or government settings; advance the understanding of practical, applied, or pragmatic issues and highlight new research challenges arising from real KDD applications
• Marketing on the Move: Understanding Mobile Consumer Behavior Feb 27-28, Philadelphia [Meetings] - Jan 21, 2012.
  presentations from practitioners and academic researchers who are pioneering the field of mobile customer analytics
• Predicting Customer Acquisition & Retention using Structured and Semi-structured Data [Competitions] - Jan 21, 2012.
  SiriusXM will be providing researchers with the complete "360 view" for 300,000 subscribers, including structured and unstructured data, all anonymized. Learn more during Feb 10 webcast.
• Online Courses from Statistics.com [Courses, Events] - Jan 20, 2012.
  Sign up for 3 courses and save $200 on course tuition! Topics cover Data Mining in R, Decision trees, Forecasting, Visualization, Text mining, Sentiment analysis, and more.
• Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier [News Briefs] - Jan 20, 2012.
  Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, and MapR mix simpler setup of Hadoop clusters with proprietary twists and trade-offs. Peter Wayner tests different Hadoop offerings and reports.
• Jan 26, Bentley and webcast: Discovery and Inference with Bayesian Networks [Webcasts] - Jan 20, 2012.
  Dealing with the Data Deluge - Knowledge Discovery and Causal Inference with Bayesian Networks, talk by Stefan Conrady at the Bentley U Virtual Analytics Symposium.
• Senior Applied Researcher, Microsoft Advertising R&D at Microsoft, Bellevue, WA [Jobs] - Jan 19, 2012.
  Through incisive analytics, we know who cares - both when and where. Above all, we love data and excel at interpreting it for our partners. A major goal is to develop the long term strategy for combatting fraud and improving traffic quality across adCenter.
• Social Media Analytics for Enterprise [Publications] ( comments) - Jan 19, 2012.
  Ahead of inaugural Social Media Analytics Summit, read our Social Media Analytics Expert Interview Series, covering the rapidly emerging social media analytics industry.
• Senior Statistician at Thomson Reuters, Santa Barbara, CA; Ann Arbor, MI; or Baltimore, MD. [Jobs] - Jan 19, 2012.
  expertise in the analysis of healthcare fraud, in statistics, health services research, epidemiological methods, and healthcare provider performance. Strong data mining skills and experience.
• Splunk Answers Business Demand For Big Data Analysis [News Briefs] - Jan 19, 2012.
  Real-time IT tool for tracking log files, clickstreams, and message queues finds a second (more valuable) use answering business questions.
• BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Mining Text Data [Publications] - Jan 18, 2012.
  This is a detailed survey book on text mining, which discusses the classical key topics, including clustering, classification, and dimensionality reduction; and emerging topics such as social networks, multimedia and transfer. The table of contents and sample survey chapters available online.
• PhD position in "Process Mining" at Eindhoven U. of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands [Academic] - Jan 18, 2012.
  The AIS group is one of the leading groups in the exciting new field of process mining which focus on process discovery (extracting process models from event logs), conformance checking, and extension.
• Big Data Analytics Professionals at Wipro Limited, Bangalore, India [Jobs] - Jan 18, 2012.
  The Strategic Technology Office at Wipro Limited is looking for Data Scientists, Stream Data Mining, and Semantic Web Gurus for solving Big Emerging Economy Challenges.
• Eye Movements Verification and Identification Competition [Competitions] - Jan 18, 2012.
  determine how people may be identified based on their eye movement characteristic.
• Ventana Research and KDnuggets Announce Analytics Education and Research Partnership [Features] - Jan 18, 2012.
  Focus on predictive analytics and benchmark research
• 10+ outstanding machine-learning researchers at GE Global Research, San Ramon, CA [Jobs] - Jan 17, 2012.
  work with a world-class multidisciplinary team to develop and deploy scalable predictive, reasoning and data mining algorithms and software for diverse industrial applications, including anomaly detection, diagnostics & prognostics on sensor, video, imagery and text data.
• Post-doc Research Associates at USC, Computational Biology, Los Angeles, CA [Academic] - Jan 17, 2012.
  focus on using high-throughput genomic data from our experiments and public sources to study disease mechanisms and disease connections.
• Webinar, Jan 24: Managing the Next Best Activity with Predictive Analytics [Webcasts] - Jan 17, 2012.
  Join Decision management guru, James Taylor and KXEN's VP Marco Casalaina as they discuss how to implement Next Best Activity using best-in-class predictive analytics and business rules.
• SAS Retail Analytics Applications [News Briefs] - Jan 17, 2012.
  If the shoe fits, you must be shopping at DSW - Shoe retailer reduces stock outs, increases customer loyalty using SAS® Size Optimization, and more SAS Retail Success stories
• Aspiring Minds Job Matching Competition [Competitions] - Jan 16, 2012.
  the competition focus is efficient matching of people to jobs by merit: one that appeals most to the worker while delivering maximum value to their employer. Young people / students are encouraged to participate
• Web Analytics Engineer at Wapo Labs, part of the Washington Post Company, Washington, DC [Jobs] - Jan 16, 2012.
  Want to leave your mark on a Fortune 500 company as part of a fast-paced, rapidly expanding team dedicated toward charting out the future of news? WaPo Labs is hiring a Web Analytics Engineer to help quench our ever-growing thirst for online data.
• Amazon Access Data Science Competition [Competitions] - Jan 16, 2012.
  build a model, learned using historical data, that will determine an employee's access needs such that manual access transactions (grants and revokes) are minimized as the employee's attributes change over time
• Oracle Big Data Appliance [News Briefs] - Jan 16, 2012.
  New Engineered System and Oracle Big Data Connectors Help Unlock the Value of Enterprise Big Data. New system features 864 GB memory, 216 CPU cores, and 648 TB of disk storage.
• Partner Presales Specialist at KNIME, Zurich, Switzerland [Jobs] - Jan 15, 2012.
  At KNIME, we are merging science with start-of-the-art technology and an exciting Silicon Valley startup spirit. Partner Presales Specialist: experience in working with partners, enabling them to establish an international channel network
• QA/Tech Support Engineer at KNIME, Zurich, Switzerland [Jobs] - Jan 15, 2012.
  At KNIME, we are merging science with start-of-the-art technology and an exciting Silicon Valley startup spirit. QA/Tech Support Engineer: bringing the KNIME testing system to the next level and making sure our reputation for rock solid technology keeps pace with our growing business.
• User Interface / Experience Specialist at KNIME, Zurich, Switzerland [Jobs] - Jan 15, 2012.
  At KNIME, we are merging science with start-of-the-art technology and an exciting Silicon Valley startup spirit. UI / Experience Specialist - responsible for improvements to the KNIME Client interface and the design and development of our next generation KNIME Web interface.
• Top news for Jan 8-14 [Features] - Jan 15, 2012.
  Poll Results: Hottest Analytics / DM Topics in 2012; 5 Big Data Startups to Watch; IBM sees gold in data mining
  Top jobs: ML/ DM Research Scientists at AT&T Labs, NJ/San Fransisco; Researcher at 1199 SEIU, NYC/Boston;
• Senior Software Engineer (Machine Learning) - Search Analytics at A9.com, Palo Alto, CA [Jobs] - Jan 14, 2012.
  an exciting opportunity to design, implement, and apply state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to rich and voluminous user behavior and textual data for one of the largest search engines on the web.
• Software Engineer - Search Relevance at A9.com, Palo Alto, CA [Jobs] - Jan 14, 2012.
  A9.com, the search technology subsidiary of Amazon.com, is looking for highly motivated engineers interested in improving the quality of Amazon's product search.
• Dedoose 3.3 Launched! [Software] - Jan 14, 2012.
  Dedoose facilitates the coding and analysis of qualitative data and their integration with demographic and other quantitative data. Dedoose is a SaaS applications in use by marketing, ethnographic, clinical trial, social policy, education, and other research professionals.
• Principal Predictive Modeler/Senior Data Scientist at Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL [Jobs] - Jan 13, 2012.
  a creative Senior Data Scientist to use ML, statistics, data mining, and analytic skills to influence the decision making, including identifying and developing pricing opportunities.
• KDDCUP 2012: First Announcement [Competitions] - Jan 13, 2012.
  KDD Cup will focus on User Modeling based on Microblog Data and Search Click Data, and have two tasks: 1. Social Network Mining on Microblogs (Weibo) and 2. User Click Modeling based on Search Engine Log Data
• Predictive Analyst at Blue Slate Solutions, Columbia, SC [Jobs] - Jan 13, 2012.
  be well versed in data preparation techniques, IR, machine learning, visualization, and classification algorithms, and the use of tools like RapidMiner, R, and SAS. Must start by January 30, 2012.
• Postdoc Researcher at Xavier U. of Louisiana and UIC, New Orleans, LA, USA [Academic] - Jan 12, 2012.
  The Next Generation Data Mining/ Social Computing at UIC and the Data Mining & Bioinformatics Group at Xavier U. of Louisiana are seeking applications for a joint postdoc researcher.
• 3 PhD/Postdoc positions in Data Mining, Machine Learning, Constraint Programming at KU Leuven, Belgium [Academic] - Jan 12, 2012.
  The Machine Learning group of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven has several open positions (at the Ph.D. or post-doc level) in the area of data mining and its combination with constraint satisfaction and constraint programming.
• Data Analyst - Matching at eHarmony, Santa Monica, CA [Jobs] - Jan 12, 2012.
  As part of the eHarmony Matching team, responsible for generating tactical analyses and insights to support the operation and improvement of eHarmony's matchmaking and delivery systems.
• IEEE ICDM 2011 Community Meeting Presentation [Publications] - Jan 12, 2012.
  an overview and interesting observations from IEEE ICDM 2011 conference
• Academic staff in databases and data mining at U. of Antwerp, Belgium [Academic] - Jan 12, 2012.
  contribute to the research-oriented education in the Msc program on databases; research in the areas of databases and data mining; The main language of instruction is Dutch;
• Senior Manager, Analytical Operations at SIRIUS XM Radio, New York, NY [Jobs] - Jan 11, 2012.
  conducting statistical analyses in support of our marketing and strategic initiatives. Have strong consultative skills in addition to quantitative ability.
• KDnuggets 12:n01, Hottest Analytics Areas in 2012; Research and intern positions [Publications] - Jan 11, 2012.
  Latest analytics/data mining news, including Features (7) | Courses, Events (1) | Webcasts (2) | Jobs (5) | Academic (5) | Competitions (1) | Publications (3) | NewsBriefs (3) | CFP (9)

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