KDnuggets 12:n17, New Poll: Languages for analytics/DM? DM "Nobel Prize"; What does "Data Science" Mean?

Latest analytics/data mining news, including Data Mining "Nobel Prize"; Vasant Dhar on what does "Data Science" Mean? Data Mining in Excel book (free download); Dilbert on How Dogbert raised venture capital for his location-based, social-media, cloud start-up

Latest KDnuggets News 12:n17, (Jul 25, 2012) Features:

New Poll: Languages used for analytics / data mining?
Data Science and Prediction, by Vasant Dhar: What does Data Science mean?
Data Mining "Nobel Prize": ACM SIGKDD 2012 Innovation Award to Prof. Vipin Kumar
ACM SIGKDD 2012 Service Award to Dr. Ying Li
PAW Boston: meet the Top Predictive Analytics Influencers
FREE IBM White Paper: The How's and Why's of Survey Research
Top news for Jul 15-21: Nodeable Twitter Big Data Tool; Data Mining In Excel book (free download)
Top news for Jul 8-14: Data Mining In Excel book (free download); Women in Analytics, Data Science

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Dilbert: Dogbert raising venture capital for his location-based, social-media, cloud start-up
Dilbert: How Dogbert raised venture capital for his location-based, social-media, cloud start-up (not flattering).