KDnuggets™ News 10:n08, Apr 21

Features (9) | Courses (1) | Software (5) | Jobs (4) | Academic (1) | Meetings (3) | Publications (3) | NewsBriefs (19) | CFP (7) | Quote

Features

• New Poll: Global Warming / Climate Change? - Apr 19, 2010.
  Our understanding of Global Climate Change depends on correctly interpreting the data, and so it is appropriate to ask data miners
• Poll Results: Most data miners won't buy an iPad - Apr 18, 2010.
  Majority of data miners don't want an iPad, but some already use it
• eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit San Jose Delivers the Analytics Experts, May 3-7, 2010 - Apr 20, 2010.
  The experts are back and Social Media Metrics are in the spotlight
• 6th Annual Text Analytics Summit & Exhibition, May 25 - 26, Boston - Apr 19, 2010.
  Improve customer intelligence, news analysis and social media understanding with text analytics. GET A $200 Discount through KDnuggets
• Certificate Program in Data Mining from statistics.com - Apr 13, 2010.
  If you have been considering a certificate program in data mining, this information from statistics.com will be of interest
• Most viewed items for week Apr 11-17 - Apr 18, 2010.
  News: Book: Data Mining Techniques in CRM; Google large scale machine learning system;
  Top Jobs: Senior Scientist - Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining at Firmenich, Geneva; Data Analyst at Blizzard Entertainment, Irvine
• Most viewed items for week Apr 4-10 - Apr 12, 2010.
  News: Google changes its name to Topeka; Data Mining, Analytic Blog Highlights; Top Jobs: Data Analyst at Blizzard Entertainment; Senior Analyst, Hotel Revenue Optimization at Expedia
• 2010 ACM SIGKDD Innovation and Service Awards: Nominations due May 15 - Apr 9, 2010.
  ACM SIGKDD is the premier global professional organization for knowledge discovery and data mining. It established the Innovation and Service Awards to recognize outstanding technical and service contributions to the KDD field.
• 20% Discount on Data Mining, ML Books from Chapman & Hall/CRC - Apr 13, 2010.
  including Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Edited by Nitin Indurkhya and Fred J. Damerau; Temporal Data Mining, by Theophano Mitsa; Patterns of Data Modeling, by Michael Blaha

Courses (see also All Courses)

• Summer School in Advanced Statistics and Data Mining, Madrid, Jun 28 - Jul 9 - Apr 16, 2010.
  The Technical University of Madrid (UPM) organizes this summer school, with 14 courses divided in 2 weeks.

Software (see also All Software)

• WordStat 6, with enhanced analytical and visualization tools - Apr 20, 2010.
  Provalis Research, a leading provider of text analysis software, announces the release of WordStat 6, delivering enhanced analytical and visualization tools in an improved easy-to-use interface.
• SAS Seeks to Improve Data Mining of Social Media - Apr 16, 2010.
  SAS Social Media Analytics is powered by the natural-language processing technology from Teragram and has impressive automated sentiment analysis; it also supports influence scores
• Kaggle Launches its First Competition - Apr 14, 2010.
  Kaggle is hosting its first competition - to forecast the voting for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest.
• SAS: OnDemand, Free for Academics - Apr 13, 2010.
  an online service for teaching and learning data management and analytics, will be available at no cost to all higher ed students worldwide in fall 2010.
• Visual Analytic Tools Survey - Apr 7, 2010.
  I am working on a capabilities development project for the MITRE Corporation, and we are conducting a survey of several different visualization tools.

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Statistician at Chick-fil-A, Inc, Atlanta, GA - Apr 20, 2010.
  This position is part of the Business Analysis Department which is focused on growing a healthy business by serving Restaurant Operators and fellow staff members with a unique blend of talents
• Data Analyst / Research Scientist at DailyMe, Inc., Miami / Fort Lauderdale, FL - Apr 18, 2010.
  DailyMe's personal prediction engine is at the forefront of dynamic news personalization and has already been deployed on a dozen leading news and current information sites
• Senior Scientist - Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining at Firmenich, Geneva, Switzerland - Apr 14, 2010.
  Firmenich is a leading producer of perfumery and flavor chemicals. This job will start with a 2 years project in our headquarters in Geneva.
• Senior Researcher / Applied Scientist (Text Mining/NLP) at Visible Technologies, Bellevue, WA - Apr 8, 2010.
  Visible Technologies is a leading provider of online brand management solutions for companies and individuals in today's rapidly changing new media environment

Academic/Research positions

• Ph.D. Position at Konstanz University, Germany - Apr 14, 2010.
  an open position in the field of biological data analysis and visualization at Computer and Information Science Dept. at the U. of Konstanz (Germany)

Meetings (see also All Meetings)

• Data Mining talks at the Oracle BIWA/Collaborate Conference - Apr 16, 2010.
  BI, Warehousing and Analytics (BIWA) is part of the Oracle Collaborate-2010 conference, Las Vegas, April 18-22, 2010.
• Mountain View, May 24: A Tour of a Modern Search Engine - Apr 13, 2010.
  Hugh Williams explains the architecture of a modern search engine, and discusses how search engines provide search over tens of billions of documents in less than a second to millions of users.
• Recommender Problems for Web Applications, Apr 26, Mountain View - Apr 13, 2010.
  Several web applications like content optimization and online advertising involve recommending items from an inventory for each user visit to maximize some yield metric of interest

Publications

• Big data analytics: From data scientists to business analysts - Apr 20, 2010.
  The Datameer Analytics Solution (DAS) assumes data sits in Hadoop, and from there a business analyst can rapidly load, transform, analyze, and visualize data
• It�s Very Early in the Game for SAS Social Media Analytics - Apr 19, 2010.
  The flash and splash of last week's SAS Social Media Analytics (SMA) launch belies the apparent very early, incomplete state of the service
• Google large scale machine learning system - Apr 12, 2010.
  If data is abundant then often a more fruitful approach is to design a highly scalable learning system and use several orders of magnitude more training data

News Briefs

• New Book: Data Mining Techniques in CRM - Apr 9, 2010.
  A complete and comprehensive handbook for the application of data mining techniques in marketing and customer relationship management, combining a technical and a business perspective.
• Oco Launches New Cost Analytics SaaS BI Solutions - Apr 19, 2010.
  On-demand solutions highlight cost reduction opportunities for enterprise customers
• Andreessen-founded Ning cuts staff, free service - Apr 19, 2010.
  Ning us cutting 40 percent of its staff and axing its free, ad-supported service to focus on business-oriented premium networks
• University of Ottawa and IBM Create New Analytics Research Center - Apr 19, 2010.
  Research and curriculum to prepare students with 'in-demand' skills to support 21st Century jobs
• Software That Predicts If You Will Do Crime & Time - Apr 18, 2010.
  The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice says it will use predictive analytics software from IBM to foretell which of its juvenile offenders are likely to return to crime.
• Analytic.ly Provides Real-Time and Historical Twitter Analysis - Apr 17, 2010.
  helps people and companies visualize, study and measure Twitter conversations happening all over the web through general and custom reports and graphs.
• Datameer Launches Data Analytics Solution for Big Data - Apr 17, 2010.
  Technology combines Hadoop with a spreadsheet interface, allowing any business user to run analytics against very large data sets
• Openwave Launches Analytics Express - Apr 16, 2010.
  New Solution Enables Operators to Rapidly Deploy Analytics to Effectively Monitor, Manage and Monetize Mobile Data Traffic
• TechTarget Acquires BeyeNETWORK, Global Network of Business Intelligence Experts - Apr 16, 2010.
  Combines to Form the Largest Business Intelligence Technology Network of Executives and Information Technology Professionals
• You've got to touch this! Oracle Data Mining on an iPad - Apr 16, 2010.
  The ODM iPad experience is implemented using remote desktop on the iPad and an 11gR2 database (with the ODM option) running on the Amazon cloud.
• ANGOSS Quarterly Results - Apr 16, 2010.
  Mutual fund and retail banking client expansion drive 21% Q1 growth in billed revenue, with 48% growth in on-demand solutions revenue
• Is Apple Banning iPhone App Analytics? - Apr 15, 2010.
  Developers are coming to terms with another change in the license agreement for iPhone OS 4 that will ban third-party analytics apps from tracking and reporting tracking how users interact with applications on their Apple device.
• Aster Data Analytics Center, www.MapReduce.org - Apr 15, 2010.
  All-Star Team of Analytics Experts and MapReduce.org to Help Companies Build Next Generation Analytic Applications Using SQL-MapReduce and MapReduce Breakthroughs
• IBM unveils Tax Collections Optimizer as analytics meets taxman - Apr 15, 2010.
  The software uses analytics and models collection action plans for each individual case, weighing parameters like case load, personnel available and the likely effectiveness of the collection effort.
• SAS technologies available to education in hosted environment - Apr 13, 2010.
  K-12 and higher education can more easily and affordably employ SAS financial, strategy and human capital management software
• Is Kontagent the Google Analytics of the Social Web? - Apr 13, 2010.
  Kontagent, an analytics platform for Facebook-based social applications that describes itself as "Google Analytics for the social web," announced new features and an enhanced dashboard for Facebook marketers
• Kickfire's Cheap Data Mining - Apr 10, 2010.
  Kickfire promises to turn pain into profit by analyzing the billions of clicks barreling through every connected company.
• Turiya Media: Data Mining Social Games To Find The Most Valuable Players - Apr 9, 2010.
  As more free-to-play games become the norm and selling virtual goods becomes the way to make money, game companies are relying more and more on a small fraction of players paying to level up or for that shiny new virtual sword.
• Oracle Data Mining helps win America's Cup - Apr 9, 2010.
  BMW Oracle Racing's victory in the 33rd America's Cup yacht race in February showcased not only the crew's extraordinary sailing expertise, but also great technology,

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• ECML PKDD 2010, due Apr 23
• Knowledge Representation for Health Care, due May 7
• ECML PKDD 2010 demonstrations, due May 14
• XML Data Mining (Chapter Proposals), due May 15
• SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010: Advances in Geographic Information Systems, due Jun 17
• 3rd Gen Data Mining: Towards Service-Oriented Knowledge Discovery, due Jun 21
• Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods & Applications, due Jun 21

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