Poll

Conferences you plan to attend in 2006? [83 voters] EGC, Lille, Jan 17-20 (3) 4.8% Salford Data Mining, San Diego, Mar 27-29 (15) 18% PAKDD, Singapore, Apr 9-12 (6) 7.2% SIAM Data Mining, Washington DC, Apr 20-22 (5) 6% ICML, Pittsburgh, Jun 25-29 (16) 19% SIGMOD, Chicago, Jun 26-28 (7) 8.4% DMIN, Las Vegas, Jun 26-29 (2) 2.4% Industrial DM, Leipzig, Jul 7-8 (3) 3.6% AAAI, Boston, Jul 16-20 (4) 4.8% JSM, Seattle, Aug 6-10 (2) 2.4% SIGIR, Seattle, Aug 6-11 (3) 3.6% KDD, Philadelphia, Aug 20-23 (33) 40% VLDB, Seoul, Sep 12-15 (4) 4.8% ECML/PKDD, Berlin, Sep 18-22 (10) 12% SAS M2006, Las Vegas, Oct 23-24 (7) 8.4% SPSS Directions, Chicago, Nov 6-9 (5) 6% ICDM, Hong Kong, Dec 18-21 (14) 17% Other (23) 28%

A full list of data mining related conferences is at www.kdnuggets.com/meetings.

As expected, KDD-2006 was the leading conference on the list.
We also examined the correlation between conferences. Half the attendees were planning to attend only one conference, while 29% were planning to attend 3 or more conferences. One most-conference-going respondent was planning to attend 6 conferences.

The following table shows the percent of KDD attendees who also attend that conference (see table below).

Conference	% of KDD-06 attendees planning to attend this conference in 2006
KDD-06	100%
ICML	27%
ICDM	24%
Salford	21%
PAKDD	18%
ECML/PKDD	15%
AAAI	12%
SIAM	12%
SIGMOD	9.1%
M2006	6.1%
VLDB	6.1%
JSM	3.0%
SIGIR	3.0%
SPSS	3.0%
DMIN	3.0%
Leipzig	3.0%
EGC	0