Latest Data Mining and Analytics News, Jobs, Software, Courses, and more en-us Copyright 2012 KDnuggets http://www.kdnuggets.com/ The University of Porto is seeking international candidates for the Master in Information Engineering (MEINF), which is taught entirely in English. 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Be part of a rapidly growing team developing informatics to further translational research and serving a dynamic community. http://www.kdnuggets.com/academic/12/02-08-ukansas-research-asst-professor-medical-informatics.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/academic/12/02-08-ukansas-research-asst-professor-medical-informatics.html Latest analytics/data mining news, including Features (10) | Courses, Events (5) | Software (4) | Jobs (15) | Academic (2) | Competitions (3) | Meetings (1) | Publications (4) | NewsBriefs (6) | CFP (13) http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/pub-kdnuggets-12-n03-top-influencers-big-data-mining-analytics.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/pub-kdnuggets-12-n03-top-influencers-big-data-mining-analytics.html SAS and Elder Research bring you a new course: "Data Mining: Principles and Best Practices", which introduces expert techniques and shows how effective application solves business problems. 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We're going to argue about how to solve them, and we'll work together to find a solution that is superior to each of the proposals we came in with. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-07-amazon-sr-software-development-engineer-display-targeting-prediction.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-07-amazon-sr-software-development-engineer-display-targeting-prediction.html With terabytes, things are actually pretty simple - most conventional databases scale to terabytes these days. However, scaling to petabytes is a whole different ball game. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/big-data-analytics-interview-florian-waas-emc-greenplum.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/big-data-analytics-interview-florian-waas-emc-greenplum.html Looking for a Chief Algorithms Officer, PHDs and PHD students from top ranked schools with a passion for machine learning, algorithms, AI, data mining and bioinformatics to solve a massive problem. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-06-accretivehealth-data-science-algorithms-positions.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-06-accretivehealth-data-science-algorithms-positions.html Stylitics, launched in private beta in November 2011, is an analytics dashboard that does for your closet what Mint.com does for your finances. 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DEFT is a French text mining challenge workshop. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/deft-french-text-mining-challenge.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/deft-french-text-mining-challenge.html KDDCUP 2012; Microsoft plan for Hadoop and big data; The Koblenz Network Datasets Top jobs: Data Scientist at Twitter; Research Scientist at RSA. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/top-news-week-Jan-29.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/top-news-week-Jan-29.html LIONsolver software combines Learning and Intelligent Optimization for solving business problems. A crucial component is Reactive Search Optimization (RSO). Next courses are in Palo Alto, Frankfurt, and Paris. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/lionsolver-training.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/lionsolver-training.html Performing complex data analysis on large datasets to develop our campaign optimization and targeting algorithms. Do innovative thinking in the fast-paced start-up environment. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-04-resonate-data-scientist.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-04-resonate-data-scientist.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-03-westernunion-director-customer-analytics.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-03-westernunion-director-customer-analytics.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/informs-analytics-jan-feb.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/informs-analytics-jan-feb.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-03-cablevision-manager-analytics-reporting.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-03-cablevision-manager-analytics-reporting.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/stevens-ms-business-intelligence-analytics.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/stevens-ms-business-intelligence-analytics.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-03-yieldbot-data-wrangler.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-03-yieldbot-data-wrangler.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/konect-koblenz-network-datasets-collection.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/konect-koblenz-network-datasets-collection.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-02-predictivedge-sr-developer-nlp.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-02-predictivedge-sr-developer-nlp.html excellent statistics and CS, and a healthy dose of "evaluative scepticism", with emphasis on the areas of machine learning, machine translation, and parallel programming. http://www.kdnuggets.com/academic/12/02-02-umelbourne-postdoc-experimental-evaluation.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/academic/12/02-02-umelbourne-postdoc-experimental-evaluation.html this concentrated training program, covers the techniques, tips and pointers you need in order to run a successful predictive analytics and data mining initiative. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/predictionimpact-courses-predictive-analytics-for-business-marketing-web.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/predictionimpact-courses-predictive-analytics-for-business-marketing-web.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/5-low-profile-big-data-startups.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/5-low-profile-big-data-startups.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-01-amazon-sr-software-development-engineer-recommendations.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-01-amazon-sr-software-development-engineer-recommendations.html 3 new competitions: Plagiarism Detection based on the ClueWeb09; Author ID: identifying sexual predators in chat logs; Quality Flaw Prediction in Wikipedia: which articles? http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/pan-plagiarism-detection-competition.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/pan-plagiarism-detection-competition.html 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. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-01-cablevision-director-market-research.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/02-01-cablevision-director-market-research.html covers important social media analytics topics afrom POV of service providers, insights into their customers, what they currently know, and what they still need to learn about social media. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/social-media-analytics-expert-interviews-part2.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/social-media-analytics-expert-interviews-part2.html