KDnuggets™ News 09:n24, Dec 9

Analytic / Data Mining Blog Highlights - Dec 8, 2009.
Interesting observations from recent blogs ... Google is now personalizing web search results for everyone who uses Google, whether logged in or not
RSCTC'2010 Discovery Challenge: mining DNA microarray data. Prizes $3,000+ - Dec 8, 2009.
feature selection in analysis of DNA microarray data and classification of patients for the purpose of medical diagnosis and treatment
MIT Red Balloon Team Wins DARPA Network Challenge - Dec 7, 2009.
The MIT team won $40,000 for being the first to identify the locations of all 10 balloons
Most viewed items for week starting Nov 29, 2009 - Dec 7, 2009.
most viewed news, jobs, positions

New Release of KNIME - now with Time Series, Text and Image Processing - Dec 2, 2009.
Data Applied: Data Mining in the Cloud - Dec 5, 2009.
affordable licenses with automated algorithms which extract patterns, preconditions and outliers
Scoring data in Microsoft Office Excel - Dec 7, 2009.
This add-in from Zementis is available now, free, and comes with a demo ADAPA instance (running on the Amazon Cloud) with sample models and data sets.
Using GPUs for data mining - Dec 8, 2009.
GPUs (Graphical Processing Units) are general purpose processors and offer over 10x the performance of a CPU

Senior SAS Professional at The Cadmus Group - Dec 2, 2009.
looking for professionals with a strong background in SAS programming to join our Energy Services Group, which provides advanced analytic and strategic consulting services to energy companies, utilities, governments, and non-profit organizations.
Software Development Manager with Information Retrieval Experience at Amazon.com, Seattle, WA - Dec 4, 2009.
Amazon.com's Fact Extraction (FX) team is looking for a technically strong and charismatic leader to manage a team of software developers tasked with improving the quality of our catalog.
Quantitative Analytics Manager at Paypal, San Jose, CA - Dec 7, 2009.
exceptional technical skills and strong problem-solving and analytical skills to help advance the detection capabilities of PayPal
Research Engineer / Applied Scientist at Paypal, San Jose, CA - Dec 7, 2009.
This position is part of newly formed Applied R&D team at PayPal focused on Risk Detection.
Quantitative Researcher/Data Miner at iProspect, Mumbai, India - Dec 8, 2009.
researching, analyzing, and reporting on data generated through iProspect's SEO and SEM services offerings, and client provided data
Research Scientist at Siemens, Princeton at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ - Dec 8, 2009.
immediate opening for a research scientist in data mining and machine learning for software applications in the area of renewable and sustainable energy

Text Mining for Brain Architecture at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York - Dec 8, 2009.
provide general computing support for the Brain Architecture Project, including the development of data models and the implementation of databases / knowledge bases for the project.
Faculty Position in Data Mining and Machine Learning at Monash University, Victoria, Australia - Dec 4, 2009.
three permanent Faculty positions
Post-doc position on XML schema learning at U. Hasselt, Belgium - Dec 4, 2009.
research will include both theoretical investigations and experimental evaluation of novel learning algorithms for XML schema languages.

Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics - Dec 8, 2009.
I consider this massive proliferation of new thinking to be a gift from God
The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management - Dec 8, 2009.
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla, Enterprise Irregulars
Winners of 2009 Digging into Data Challenge - Dec 7, 2009.
winning projects data mining criminal intent, analyze music, a year of speech, 18th century letters and more
That's Funny... A window on data can be a window on discovery - Dec 7, 2009.
how a good visualization can stimulate a scientific discovery
Automating the Design of Data Mining Algorithms: Book download - Dec 5, 2009.
187 pages, Springer, PDF | 1 Mb

Open Cloud Consortium Wins Bandwidth Challenge at SC09 Conference in Portland, Oregon - Dec 8, 2009.
competition for new technology to support data intensive applications over wide area clouds
Next Big Sound Raises Seed Round For Online Music Analytics - Dec 8, 2009.
Next Big Sound is a statistics and comparison engine a la Alexa or Compete, but for music artists and industry professionals.
IBM's Analytics Center Focuses on Financial Services - Dec 3, 2009.
IBM has opened a business analytics center in London to focus on services for the U.K.'s financial sector.

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