Professional Societies/Groups

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What professional societies/groups related to data mining you belong to? [100 voters total] ACM (33) 33.0% SIGKDD (29) 29.0% None (28) 28.0% IEEE (28) 28.0% Other - please comment (16) 16.0% ASA or another statistical group (14) 14.0% AAAI or another AI group (11) 11.0% IMLS or another Machine Learning group (6) 6.0% SIGMOD or another DB group (4) 4.0%

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Hercules, Additional groups: GI / FG-KDML
German Informatics Society (GI e.V.):
Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Machine Learning (FG KDML, formerly FGML)


Ralf Klinkenberg, Other professional association: GI
Other professional association:
GI -- Gesellschaft f�r Informatik = German Computer Science Society
www.gi-ev.de/
and its special interest group on Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Machine Learning (FG-KDML):
www.ais.fraunhofer.de/~wrobel/fgml/

Karl, My "other"
I'm a member of the IET (Institute of Engineering & Technology), recently formed by the merger of the IEEE's rivals the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers), of which I was a member, and the IMechE (Mechanical Engineers)

Phil, Australian Association
www.iapa.org.au/

Louise Francis, Other Societies
The primary professional society I belong to, which provided the forums for most of my publishing on data mining is the Casualty Actuarial Society. Undouptedly, interest in the topic of data mining has spread to many specific application areas.