KDnuggets™ News 13:n31, Dec 19

Features

• Poll Results: R has a big lead, but Python is gaining ( comments) - Dec 18, 2013.
  KDnuggets Poll results show that R has a big lead among data scientists and data miners, but Python is slowly gaining.
• Top KDnuggets Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science Stories in 2013 - Dec 16, 2013.
  Salary of Analytics/Data Science professionals; Top Languages for analytics, data mining, data science; 7 Steps for Learning Data Mining and Data Science; Book: Twitter Data Analytics - free download
• Top 2013 LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science ( comments) - Dec 13, 2013.
  We revisit our analysis of top 30 LinkedIn groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science and identify the largest, fastest growing, and most active groups. In 2013 the growth rate of top groups more than doubled, and growth rate correlated with the activity level.
• PAW: Predictive Analytics World 2014 San Francisco: Agenda - Dec 18, 2013.
  Predictive analytics professionals will not want to miss the PAW keynote speakers. Register by Jan 24 with Early Bird Pricing and get the best deal on analytics networking.
• Predictive Analytics in 2014: Monetizing, Not Managing, Big Data ( comments) - Dec 18, 2013.
  Guest blog of SkyTree CEO Martin Hack looks at 2 Key Trends in Predictive Analytics in 2014: high performance machine learning will penetrate the mainstream, and privacy issues associated with Big Data will be debated by business owners and consumers alike.
• Highlights of IEEE ICDM 2013 International Conference on Data Mining, Dallas ( comments) - Dec 16, 2013.
  Highlights of the IEEE ICDM 2013 Conference on Data Mining: Good organization in icy conditions, How to do clustering in high dimensions, Discovering unexpected sequential patterns, and perspectives on #BigData.
• Movie Analytics in India: Dhoom 3 to Don 3 - Dec 11, 2013.
  Predictive Analytics and Game theory can help answer questions like Can Dhoom 3 or Don 3 be as successful as Mother India, or which actor should have the main role for movie to be successful.
• Top stories for Dec 8-14: A Programmer Guide to Data Mining - Free Download; 3 Stages of Big Data - Dec 15, 2013.
  New Book: A Programmer Guide to Data Mining - Free Download; 3 Stages of Big Data; New Poll: Did you switch between R, Python, or other Data Science Languages? Top LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data

Software

• Data Science Toolbox virtual environment ( comments) - Dec 12, 2013.
  Data Science Toolbox: a new virtual environment for command-line data science - how it compares with similar environments: Mining the Social Web, Data Science Toolkit, and Data Science Box.
• Rexer Analytics releases 2013 Data Miner Survey Summary Report - Dec 11, 2013.
  Highlights include Focus on CRM, Big Data perhaps not so big, The Ascendance of R, Challenges in the use of analytics, High Job Satisfaction, and a ranking of analytics software by several measures, including Ease-of-use and cost.
• Hurwitz Victory Index Survey on Advanced Analytics - Dec 18, 2013.
  Help create a Victory Index on Advanced Analytics, take part in a survey of advanced analytics and get the results.

Webcasts

• Replay: What Lies Ahead for Big Data and Analytics - Dec 19, 2013.
  Watch the discussion between Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Editor of KDNuggets, and Michael Karasick, VP of research in IBM Almaden Research as they delve into Big Data and Analytics and look at what they think will be the hottest topics and developments of 2014.
• Webinar: Angoss ScorecardBUILDER(tm) Preview, Jan 23 - Dec 17, 2013.
  Webinar: Introducing Angoss ScorecardBUILDER(TM) - accelerate scorecard development by 50%+ with automated workflow and Weight of Evidence optimizer.

Courses, Events

• WekaMOOC: Data Mining with Weka, complete online course - Dec 17, 2013.
  The course features video lectures by Professor Ian H. Witten, with English & Chinese subtitles, open-source Weka data mining platform. What were the most interesting lectures?

Meetings

• Oracle BIWA Summit January 2014 - Dec 15, 2013.
  Novel and interesting use cases of Oracle Big Data, Exadata, Advanced Analytics/Data Mining, Endeca; opportunities to get hands-on experience; great customer case studies and more.

Jobs

• Statistical Analysis Manager at MeasuredProgress, Dover, NH - Dec 18, 2013.
  Help improve the achievement of students nationwide by supporting our K-12 assessment and professional development programs, by defining and implementing the statistical analysis processes.
• Data Scientist at NPR, Washington, DC - Dec 18, 2013.
  Extract insights from complex media usage data sets for product development, identify strategic opportunities, and become the expert for digital metrics - dream job for a public radio lover.
• Junior Data Scientist at DueDil, London, UK - Dec 17, 2013.
  Help build the most exciting startup in Europe! DueDil answers the needs of the largest and fastest growing user base of B2B decision makers in the UK and is becoming the data backbone of business.
• Quantitative Analyst at Crum & Forster, Morristown, NJ - Dec 14, 2013.
  Help build economic. operations research, and statistical models using internal and external data sources.
• Data Scientist at MachineZone, Palo Alto, CA - Dec 13, 2013.
  Develop and investigate hypotheses, structure experiments and build mathematical models to identify game optimization points that will encourage users to play our games more.
• Econometrics Data Scientist, Adobe Research at Adobe, San Jose, CA - Dec 11, 2013.
  Discovering innovative approaches to leveraging advanced statistical and econometric modeling techniques to perform marketing mix modeling research on multiple massive datasets.
• Analytics Researcher, Adobe Research at Adobe, San Jose, CA - Dec 11, 2013.
  Research the next generation digital marketing applications and products using large-scale machine learning, statistical-relational modeling, location prediction and social networks analysis.
• Product Analyst, Behance at Adobe, Soho, New York, NY - Dec 11, 2013.
  Work with product, business, community and development teams to define, analyze and refine KPIs for overall product and new features. Drive the creation of a robust analytics tech stack to log and analyze all product data.

Academic/Research positions

• Marketing Faculty, Tenure-track at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA - Dec 16, 2013.
  Focus on teaching (mainly undergraduate, some MBA and certificate programs), provide tudents with a strong foundation in marketing concepts and introduce them to cutting edge marketing tools.

Competitions

• Innocentive: Establishing a Business Value for Data - Dec 16, 2013.
  Seeking methodology for quantifying the value of different types of business data in order to inform large scale investment decisions concerning improving data infrastructure, supply chain and management.

Publications

• New Book on RapidMiner - Save 25% - Dec 13, 2013.
  Written by leaders in the data mining community, this new book provides an in-depth introduction to the application of data mining and business analytics techniques and tools in scientific research, medicine, industry, commerce, and diverse other sectors.
• New Data Mining and Machine Learning books from CRC Press - Save 25% - Dec 13, 2013.
  Save 25% on new books Data Mining and Machine Learning books, including Multilinear Subspace Learning, Bayesian Programming, Computational Business Analytics, and Multi-Label Dimensionality Reduction.
• LIONbook Chapter 17: Semi-supervised learning - Dec 12, 2013.
  The LIONbook on machine learning and optimization, written by co-founders of LionSolver software, is provided free for personal and non-profit usage. Chapter 17 looks at Semi-supervised learning.
• LIONbook Chapter 16: Visualizing Graphs and Networks - Dec 12, 2013.
  The LIONbook on machine learning and optimization, written by co-founders of LionSolver software, is provided free for personal and non-profit usage. Chapter 16 looks at Visualizing graphs and networks by nonlinear maps.

Top Tweets

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Dec 16-17: A billion rows per second in Python; #BigData Dashboard Dizziness - Dec 18, 2013.
  A billion rows per second in Python; #BigData Dashboard Dizziness - what you get after careful consideration of 437 charts; Import.io turns any website into a database; 2014 Predictions: Machine-generated data
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Dec 13-15: Facebook hires Deep Learning expert Yann LeCun; 2014 World Cup Group Stage - Dec 16, 2013.
  Facebook hires Deep Learning expert Yann LeCun to head its new AI lab; New Data Mining and Machine Learning books from CRC Press - Save 25%; Import.io turns any website into a database; 2014 World Cup Group Stage, per ESPN: Brazil, Argentina, Germany, France advance
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Dec 9-10: European Travel Patterns; Cloudera resources for Data Science beginners - Dec 11, 2013.
  European Travel Patterns; Cloudera resources for Data Science beginners; New Book: A Programmer Guide to Data Mining - free download; 3 stages of Big Data to help clarify the confusion

CFP - Calls for Papers

• ISAWEL: Intelligent Systems for Animal Welfare, due Jan 4
• i-KNOW 2014-w: Cognitive Computing and Data-Driven Business, due Jan 31
• UMAP 2014: User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, due Feb 3
• BigDataScience: The Second IEEE/ASE Int. Conf. on Big Data Science and Computing, due Mar 1
• IDA 2014: Intelligent Data Analysis, due May 23

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