Features
- 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
Software (see also All Software)
- 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
Jobs (see also All Jobs)
- 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
Academic/Research positions
- 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.
Publications
- 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
News Briefs
- 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.
CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)
- IEA/AIE 2010 Special Session, due Dec 10
- BAO 2010: Business Analytics and Optimization, due Dec 12
- PAKDD-2010 tutorial proposals, due Feb 28
- IAT-10, due Mar 26
- Industrial ICDM 2010 short papers, due Apr 30
- INFORMS Data Mining Cluster, due Jan 10
- UMAP 2010 abstracts, due Jan 11
- ICML/COLT 2010 Workshop proposals, due Jan 18
- KDD-2010, due Feb 2
- ICML 2010 Tutorial proposals, due Feb 13
- PAKDD-2010 tutorial proposals, due Feb 28
- IAT-10, due Mar 26
- IJKDB: Special Issue on Mining Complex Structures in Biology, due Apr 1
- Industrial ICDM 2010 short papers, due Apr 30
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