KDnuggets™ News 09:n26, Dec 29

Features

• New Poll: Meetings you attended in 2009 - Dec 28, 2009.
  New KDnuggets Poll: Which data mining related meetings you attended in 2009? Please vote on www.kdnuggets.com
• Poll Results: Top Industries for Data Mining Applications - Dec 26, 2009.
  CRM analytics and Banking still lead; Social Network analysis shows the largest gain.
• NPR Science Friday: Data Mining in the Mobile World - Dec 23, 2009.
  By analyzing cell phone movements and online search queries, scientists can monitor traffic in real time and track disease outbreaks more efficiently, but at what cost to privacy? Computer scientists Tom Mitchell and Deborah Estrin discuss the pros and cons of crowd sourcing personal data
• University of Minnesota computer scientists to help track global climate change through new data mining tools - Dec 21, 2009.
  The U. of Minnesota and the Planetary Skin Institute partnership will use data mining tools to track historical changes in the Earth's forest ecosystems and better determine their relationship to climate change.
• CALBC Challenge (biomedical text annotation) starts - Dec 27, 2009.
  creating a broadly-scoped and diversely annotated biomedical text corpus (150,000 Medline abstracts on immunology annotated with different semantic groups) by automatically integrating the annotations from many different named entity recognition and concept identification systems
• Most viewed items for week Dec 20-26 - Dec 27, 2009.
  most viewed news, jobs, positions
• Most viewed items for week Dec 13-19 - Dec 21, 2009.
  most viewed news, jobs, positions

Software (see also All Software)

• 80legs offers free version of its Web data mining tool - Dec 26, 2009.
  Aimed at researchers, students, startups and small companies, the free offering lets users search and analyze up to 100,000 Web pages per job

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Software Development Engineer at Medio, Seattle, WA - Dec 17, 2009.
  contribute to development of the server side infrastructure for its next generation analytics platform
• Software Development Engineer, Personalization Platform at Amazon.com, Seattle, WA - Dec 16, 2009.
  Be part of the team that collects customer behavior data in real-time, and uses this data to recommend the perfect products to millions of customers every day

Publications

• Facebook Memology: Top Status Trends of 2009 - Dec 26, 2009.
  more personal topics like family, religion and even emerging digital slang were common
• 2009 IEEE ICDM Community Meeting Slides - Dec 22, 2009.
  The ICDM '09 statistics and ICDM '10 attractions
• Report Predicting Five-Fold Growth in Open Source BI Available at Pentaho.com - Dec 22, 2009.
  presents key findings and recommendations based on analysis of current market traction and adoption trends.
• Q-and-A with Seth Grimes, Analytics Analyst - Dec 21, 2009.
  Seth is a leading industry observer, focusing on business intelligence, text analytics, and decision support
• Is Believing in Behavioral Targeting Like Believing in Santa? - Dec 20, 2009.
  Augustine Fou: I wonder whether believing in it was like believing in Santa -- something you do when you're a kid, but grow out of, hopefully, at some point.
• Predictions for 2010: clouds, mergers, social networks and analytics - Dec 20, 2009.
  what is important is to look at the nuance of a market or a technology change in the context of its evolution
• Advanced Analytics Predictions For 2010 - Dec 19, 2009.
  These trends will set the stage for thoroughgoing transformation of business intelligence (BI), data warehousing (DW), predictive analytics (PA), data mining (DM), business activity monitoring (BAM), complex event processing (CEP), and other key analytics technologies

News Briefs

• IBM Voice of the customer analytics (VOCA) - Dec 26, 2009.
  New "Voice of Customer" Mines Diverse Data Sources to Deliver Consolidated View Into Customer Satisfaction Issues
• LA County to use data mining technology to combat fraud - Dec 26, 2009.
  The $3.2 million, two-year contract to target fraud in CalWORKs child care program will use data mining technology to help predict fraud.
• CAPITAL Card Services Strengthens Its Data Mining With KXEN Solution - Dec 21, 2009.
  speeded up by as much as four times its analytical model building and variable reduction processes
• KXEN Conference Highlights Value of Data Mining to Building Success in a Downturn - Dec 19, 2009.
  Data mining and predictive analytics will continue to help firms buck the trend of downturn

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• DATA MINING CUP 2010, due Feb 1
• ADMI-10, due Feb 2
• KDD-2010, due Feb 2
• White box non-linear prediction models, due May 31

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