KDnuggets™ News 10:n29, Dec 8

Features (6) | Courses (1) | Webcasts (1) | Software (3) | Jobs (10) | Meetings (2) | AudioVideo (1) | Publications (7) | NewsBriefs (4) | CFP (5) | Quote

Features

• New Poll: How Powerful is Your Analytics Computer? - Dec 7, 2010.
  New KDnuggets poll is asking about processors, memory, disk and OS configuration for your main analytics/data mining computer(s).
• Poll Results: Web "Do not track" not likely to have a major effect - Dec 7, 2010.
  KDnuggets readers doubt that "Do not track" will have a major impact on web advertising
• Agency Proposes 'Do Not Track' Option for Web Users - Dec 1, 2010.
  FTC "do not track" proposal will let consumer choose if they want information about their web browsing to be collected. Industry self-regulation has failed to provide adequate and meaningful protection for consumers, says FTC. Now FTC proposes "privacy by design," where companies are required to build privacy protections into their everyday business practices.
• Predictive Analytics World, March 14-15, San Francisco - Dec 7, 2010.
  will cover hot topics, including uplift modeling, social data (several sessions), cross-industry applications, ensemble models, fraud detection, and much, much more.
• Most viewed Nov 28-Dec 4 - Dec 5, 2010.
  Tim Berners Lee: Soc. Networks threat to the Web; Book: Data Analysis with Open Source Tools;
  Top jobs: Analytics Manager at Opera Solutions, London and Paris; Relevance scientist / Research programmer at Yandex Labs, Palo Alto;
• Most viewed news, jobs in November - Dec 3, 2010.
  Google Cleans Up Messy Data with Refine; Forbes on The Data Analytics Boom;
  Top jobs: Decision Scientist - Fraud Risk Analytics, Microsoft; Mathematical Modeling, Optimization at ExxonMobil Research

Courses (see also All Courses)

• Machine Learning/Data Mining in R - Dec 6, 2010.
  Patricia Hoffman and Mike Bowles teach a set of Machine Learning / Data Mining classes using R starting in January, in Silicon Valley.

Webcasts (see also All Webcasts)

• Dec 9 Webcast and Talk: Data Mining Industry Trends - Dec 7, 2010.
  Karl Rexer will present the highlights of the Fourth Annual Data Miner Survey, at Bentley U Virtual Analytics Symposium

Software (see also All Software)

• 5 Alternative Social Analytics Solutions To Radian6 - Dec 6, 2010.
  Here are 5 social analytics tools which are more affordable than Radian6
• Datasift sends first Alpha invites - Dec 2, 2010.
  DataSift uses cloud computing to let developers build streams of data from millions of tweets.
• Research.ly - New Twitter Analytics Tools - Dec 7, 2010.
  ReSearch.ly is designed to help brand managers and marketers find the 1% of Twitter users that matter most to them.

Jobs (see also All Jobs)

• Business Solution Architect - Advanced Analytics at a successful software company, Boston area - Dec 7, 2010.
  join the Analytics business unit of a very successful Boston area software product company. The Analyics business unit has plans to accelerate its rapid revenue growth over the next several years through the creation of industry leading and compelling analytic and optimization solutions
• Principal Scientist at ID Analytics, San Diego, CA - Dec 6, 2010.
  participate in developing company's advanced technologies, including statistical score modeling, score model development, score model deployment, large scale database analysis and statistical algorithms.
• Senior Technical Analyst at adMarketplace, New York, NY - Dec 6, 2010.
  a talented, highly motivated and dependable individual with outstanding analytical and communication skills to optimize and manage publisher accounts.
• Data Mining Expert - Online Advertising at Resonate Networks, Reston, VA - Dec 3, 2010.
  a data driven and rapidly growing online advertising company, is seeking a highly talented, creative and motivated Data Mining expert.
• Analyst, Strategic Analytics/Modeling at Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, White Plains, NY - Dec 2, 2010.
  developing predictive models, designing and executing ad hoc statistical research, and executing model validation and scoring for various CRM initiatives.
• Software Development Engineer in Test II at Microsoft, Redmond, WA - Dec 1, 2010.
  Do you want to protect Microsoft customers from fraud and corruption on the internet? Can you think like a spammer/phisher to break protection mechanisms and develop a framework for testing complex algorithms? Do you want to be part of the success of the largest web service at Microsoft? The Windows Live Safety Platform group has a ground-floor opportunity for you!
• Data Quality Analyst at Microsoft, Redmond, WA - Dec 1, 2010.
  Are you looking for an opportunity to provide actionable business intelligence enabling the business to make data-driven decisions to positively impact both Microsoft consumers and Windows Live?
• Applied Research Manager at Microsoft, Redmond, WA - Dec 1, 2010.
  lead the applied research team responsible for developing technologies to keep Microsoft customers safe from abuse on the Internet.
• Web Analytics Manager at FT.com, New York, NY - Dec 1, 2010.
  work at the forefront of our business with stakeholders across all departments (marketing, product development, advertising, finance, editorial, and IT) to plan and understand key product changes and their intended business impact.
• Data Mining Analyst at Waterfront International, Toronto, Canada - Dec 1, 2010.
  WIL is a financial consulting firm, specializing in developing computer based statistical trading strategies.

Meetings (see also All Meetings)

• Jan 24, Mountain View: Diversity, Complexity, and Regularization in Ensemble Models - Dec 5, 2010.
  Giovanni Seni will give a concise introduction to the breakthrough topic of Ensemble Models. The speaker is the author of a recently published book on the topic.
• Registration now open for SAS Global Forum 2011 - Dec 7, 2010.
  April 4-7 at Caesars, Las Vegas featuring 2.5 days of learning and networking, SAS Global Forum 2011 is the premier event for SAS professionals worldwide.

Audio/Video

• ACM Videos on Analytics and Data Mining - Dec 6, 2010.
  ACM fora.tv channel has many talks on analytics and data mining

Publications

• How Data Analytics and BI Professionals Used Twitter in November - Dec 7, 2010.
  Spotfire blog brings news from experts on how BI "hit the road," a data mining founder and lots of buzz around social BI and mobile BI.
• The Predictive Model: Its Reliability and Validity - Dec 7, 2010.
  Bruce Ratner reexamines these concepts so that model builders and marketing users of models know whether their predictive models are meritable.
• Recent data analytics & visualization contests - Dec 6, 2010.
  Popular topics include direct marketing, geo-location, navigation, and traffic prediction. Given the increasing demand for data scientists, companies will do well to reach to top contestants.
• Opening My Mind to Open Data - Dec 6, 2010.
  Open is suddenly cool because of open source; There is an ongoing movement towards open data; in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Norway and even Kenya. Open is suddenly cool because of open source
• Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers - Dec 4, 2010.
  The titles of every British book published in English in and around the 19th century are analyzed for key words and phrases that might offer fresh insight into the minds of the Victorians.
• Tom Breur on How to build predictive models - Dec 2, 2010.
  Much has been written on building predictive models, but this summary by Tom Breur is very clear and concise
• Life-Time Value Modeling of Big-ticket Items - Dec 1, 2010.
  LTV modeling of big-ticket items puts forth analytic-tactical issues because the sales patterns are "spotty"

News Briefs

• NBA's Orlando Magic bring SAS® Analytics center court - Dec 7, 2010.
  SAS for sports provides arena heat map, real-time results on ticket and suite sales for new arena
• SAP HANA will speed real-time data analytics - Dec 6, 2010.
  SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance's in-memory technology significantly boosts analytics performance, analysts say
• Smart Grid Data Analytics Market to Reach $4.2B by 2015 - Dec 3, 2010.
  The data tsunami that will wash over utilities in the coming years is a formidable IT challenge, but it is also a huge opportunity to move beyond simple meter-to-cash functions and into more robust business intelligence capabilities
• Aster Data and Tableau Software Partnership - Dec 2, 2010.
  Aster Data Massively Parallel Analytic Database Integrated With Tableau's Data Visualization and Business Intelligence Applications

CFP - Calls for Papers (see also All CFP)

• Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11) workshop proposals, due Jan 7
• High Performance Parallel and Distributed Data Mining, due Jan 11
• KDD-2011: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Workshop proposals, due Feb 1
• KDD-2011: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, due Feb 11
• Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11) tutorial proposals, due Feb 18

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