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Features
- Top KDnuggets News Items for 2009 - Dec 15, 2009.Netflix Prize, Software Tools, Salary, and more
- Most viewed items for week starting Dec 06, 2009 - Dec 13, 2009.most viewed news, jobs, positions
- Fordham University and IBM Launch Curriculum to Prepare Students with Business Analytics Skills - Dec 10, 2009.Fordham's Schools of Business will offer Business Analytics for Managers course based on IBM analytics technology
- Active Learning Challenge - Dec 10, 2009.addresses machine learning problems in which labeling data is expensive, but large amounts of unlabeled data are available at low cost
Courses (see also All Courses)
- statistics.com Courses on Data Mining and more - Dec 15, 2009.Upcoming online courses from statistics.com let you interact directly with experts over a period of 4 weeks, but don't require that you be online at any particular times of day.
Software (see also All Software)
- New Software: Text, Visualization, Statistics - Dec 14, 2009.new software added to KDnuggets
- First set of KNIME Enterprise Products launched - Dec 14, 2009.KNIME.com now offers a workflow and report server; KNIME Cluster Execution dramatically accelerates your workflows
Jobs (see also All Jobs)
- Senior Pricing Analyst, Client Analytical Services at UBS, Weehawken, NJ - Dec 14, 2009.apply advanced statistical, econometric and research methodologies to generate business insights regarding investment and banking product pricing and its relationship with revenue drivers
- Software Engineer (Data Intelligence Team) at Kgbweb, New York, NY - Dec 11, 2009.The Data Intelligence team is responsible for gathering, analyzing and making sense out of a variety of data to be used in a major consumer-facing offering.
Meetings (see also All Meetings)
- Predictive Analytics World, Feb 16-17, San Francisco - Dec 15, 2009.Super Early Bird Offer for Predictive Analytics World Ends this Friday, Dec. 18
Publications
- The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Dec 15, 2009.a collection of essays written by Microsoft's and outside scientists, as a tribute to Jim Grey
- Analyzing AdWords Positions In Google Analytics - Dec 13, 2009.with a combination of custom reports, advanced segments and pivot tables, you can do a meaningful analysis
- Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections - Dec 13, 2009.all networks share a remarkable property: their nodes can be classified into groups with the nodes connecting to each other depending on their group membership
- Gartner: Big Growth Ahead for Open Source BI - Dec 13, 2009.forecast: fivefold growth for the open source business intelligence market by 2012
- How Much Information? 34 GB a day - Dec 11, 2009.In 2008, Americans consumed information for an average of 12 hours / day, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day (UCSD study)
- A New Method to the Freakonomics Madness - Dec 10, 2009.Ian Ayres reviews Superfreakonomics, finds randomization is good
News Briefs
- SAS joins Teradata University Network - Dec 15, 2009.SAS(r) business intelligence and analytics curriculum will be available to thousands of professors, students
- Information Builders and ParAccel Partner to Support Rapid Adoption of Advanced Analytic Solutions - Dec 15, 2009.enables organizations to incorporate high-performance analytics and best-in-class business intelligence to harvest greater insight from their data
- Senators move to block drugmakers from mining Rx data - Dec 13, 2009.Drug companies won't be able to mine pharmacy records to track which doctors are prescribing their medications - proposal by two Senate Democrats.
- IBM: Manage Data Like Cash - Dec 12, 2009.report tracking the effective use of business analytics at successful businesses.
- Nurses Group Accepting Research Proposals for Quality Data Mining - Dec 9, 2009.use quality indicator database to evaluate links between nursing performance and patient outcomes
- Fighting Fraud with Social Network Analysis - Dec 9, 2009.Social network analysis can help insurers understand networks often connected to criminal behavior
CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)
- A Decade of Mining the Web, due Jan 8
- Large-Scale Hierarchical Classification Workshop, due Jan 18
- INC 2010, due Jan 31
- KDD-2010, due Feb 2
- AAAI-2010 Workshop, due Mar 29
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka" but "That�s funny..."Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)