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• AltaPlana 2014 Text Analytics Market Study - Jan 31, 2014.
  
  KDnuggets, a media sponsor of a 2014 text-analytics market study conducted by leading industry analyst Seth Grimes, invites all text analytics users to take part in this survey. Please respond by Feb 21.

  Altaplana, Market Study, Text Analytics

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 29-30: Visual.ly Data Visualization Catalog; 100 numpy exercises, from Novice to Expert Data Scientists - Jan 31, 2014.
  
  Visual.ly Data Visualization Catalog help you choose the right visualization; 100 numpy exercises, from Novice to Expert Data Scientists; R vs Python Duel, Contest 1A - download, process 2GB census data; Online course: More Data Mining with Weka

  Data Visualization, numpy, Online Education, Python, Python vs R, Weka

• Open Analytics Chicago Summit, March 27 - Jan 31, 2014.
  
  This summit is a great place for CTOs, CMOs, Engineers, Developers, Data Scientists, and others to network and learn about open source technologies and big data analytics.

  Chicago-IL, Open Analytics, Summit

• R2: Data Scientist - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  Looking for a data scientist with the curiosity to derive new insights from data and the drive to deliver that insight into production, to help our clients to transform their practice in the industry.

  Canada, Data Scientist

• NYU Center for Data Science: Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellows - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  Fellows are expected to lead independent, original research programs with impact in natural or social science and in one or more domains (computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics). Apply by Feb 6.

  Data Science Fellows, Moore-Sloan, New York-NY, NYU

• ACM SIGSPATIAL Cup 2014, GIS-focused algorithm competition - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  This contest will focus on the important problem of map generalization, a commonly used concept in creating maps of different scales.

  Dallas-TX, GIS, Maps, SIGSPATIAL

• More Data Mining with Weka - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  This online course teaches both principles and practical data mining techniques, lets students work on very big datasets, classify text, experiment with clustering, and much more.

  Association Rules, Clustering, Data Mining with Weka, Online Education, Text Classification, Weka

• WIL: Data Mining Analyst - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  Waterfront International, Toronto-based quantitative finance research firm, seeks a talented analyst to help develop computer based statistical trading strategies.
• Stevens Capital Management LP: Data Mining Analyst - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  Stevens Capital Management LP, a large hedge fund, seeks talented and motivated data mining analyst to find patterns and insight in financial market data and develop predictive models.
• Statwing, Modern Data Analysis Software - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  Every decision maker in the organization needs to be capable of analyzing data, but most tools require a lot of mundane and time-consuming data cleaning. Statwing solves that problem and lets you focus on data analysis.

  Automating, Data Exploration, General Social Survey, Statwing

• Determining the Value of Insights - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  With the value of Consumer Insights being questioned to justify ROI, the Market Research professionals need to figure out ways to quantify the value of those insights. Determining the value of insights is no easy task and requires focus on three key components.

  Efficiency, Insight Effectiveness, Insight Quality, Market Research

• IE Master in Business Analytics and Big Data, Madrid - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  IE in Madrid, one of the top Business Schools in the world, designed the 10-months Master in Business Analytics and Big Data degree for people who studied or are working in technology, do quantitative work in engineering, statistics or business.

  Business Analytics, Data Science Education, Madrid-Spain, Master of Science

• “Human Analytics” at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, March 5-6 (KDnuggets discount) - Jan 29, 2014.
  
  Understand the business value in "human data" - emotion, intent, connection - in online, social, and enterprise sources via text, speech, video and social-network analytics. Early bird till Jan 31 + KDnuggets discount.

  Emotion, Human Analytics, Intent, New York-NY, Sentiment Analysis

• Data Mining for Beginners Boot Camp, Salford video series - Jan 29, 2014.
  
  This series shows how to easily apply SPM software suite to your predictive modeling projects, using a modern banking application as an example. This series is at the beginner level, and is perfect for first-time users or for those who need a refresher course in model building and data analysis.

  Beginners, CART, Gradient Boosting, Online Education, Predictive Modeling, Salford Systems, TreeNet

• Alliant: Statistician/Predictive Modeler – Direct Marketing - Jan 29, 2014.
  
  The ideal candidate will have a wide-range of experience building and presenting regression models in digital and offline direct response environments.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 27-28: Dilbert takes on #BigData Analysis and Salaries; Free Tutorial, Data Analytics for Beginners - Jan 29, 2014.
  
  Dilbert takes on #BigData Analysis and Salaries of Top Performers. Hilarious! ; Free Tutorial - Data Analytics for Beginners: Part 1 - Installing R and RStudio; Part 2: Data Cleaning; A New Science of Cities emerges from Mobile Phone Data Analysis.

  Beginners, Data Analytics, Dilbert, Google, R, Tutorial

• U. Virginia: MS / PhD positions in Machine Learning, Data Science - Jan 28, 2014.
  
  MS and PhD positions for people with a strong background and interest in machine learning, modeling, and data science.

  Charlottesville-VA, Medical Applications, University of Virginia

• 10 New Year resolutions for CIOs who want to take the Big Data plunge in 2014 - Jan 28, 2014.
  
  The Big Data hype is everywhere, but many CIOs aren’t sure how to take their first steps toward adopting Big Data. Here are 10 New Year’s resolutions for CIOs who want to take the Big Data plunge in 2014.

  Big Data Strategy, CIO, FICO

• USherbrooke: Post-doctoral researcher in informatics of aging - Jan 28, 2014.
  
  The Aging Research Center, a multi-disciplinary center with many large, unique data sets, seeking a postdoc who can facilitate collaborations among researchers with diverse interests.

  Aging, Biomarker Studies, Canada, Social Participation, University of Sherbrooke

• Top Trends in Analytics and Big Data ahead of Strata 2014 Santa Clara - Jan 28, 2014.
  
  Our survey ahead of Strata 2014 Conference revealed the top 3 trends in Analytics and Big Data for 2014: Analytics for the masses, Apache Spark, and Real Time Analytics. Read the interesting comments and details and get a KDnuggets discount for Strata.

  2014 Trends, Analytics for the masses, Apache Spark, Real-time, Strata

• Building Better Models – Case studies in Predictive Analysis – JMP Webcasts - Jan 27, 2014.
  
  The five-part on-demand series shows how to build better and more useful models with modern predictive modeling techniques such as regression, neural networks and decision trees.

  Boosting, Bootstrap Forests, Decision Trees, JMP, Predictive Analysis, Statistical Modeling

• Viewpoint: Why your company should NOT use “Big Data” - Jan 27, 2014.
  
  Hardcore analytics (and Big Data) can add value, but only marginally and only for companies that have already mastered using the data they already have. The ‘obvious’ information from your own data can get you 90%+ of the total impact, so start there. The hard part is executing the basic insights across the organization.

  80/20 Principle, Hardcore Analytics, Pair Search, Quality Score, Sort Order

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 24-26: Great map of #DataScience skills; Online Courses in Predictive Analytics, ML - Jan 27, 2014.
  
  Great map of #DataScience skills (Biz, ML, #BigData, Coding, Stats) vs Roles ; Online Courses in Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Science; Top #BigData Trend in 2014: Big Data as a Service; Opinion: Why your company should NOT use Big Data.

  BDaaS, Data Science Skills, Online Education, Roles, Skills

• Apple: C++ Senior Developer and Architect, Maps - Jan 27, 2014.
  
  Ideal candidate would have experience with system architecture, as well as the design, implementation, and testing of individual components but also be comfortable with multiple scripting languages.

  Apple, C++, Cupertino-CA, Developer, Maps

• SAS surpasses $3 billion in 2013 revenue - Jan 27, 2014.
  
  The growth reflects strong sales of SAS Visual Analytics, anti-fraud solutions (44%), cloud computing (20%), data management and certain industry-specific applications (16-18%). For every one of its 38 years, SAS has grown revenue and shown a profit.

  Business Analytics, Fraud Prevention, Revenue, SAS

• Top stories for Jan 19-25: Learning from Data free online course; MassBigData; Split on Data Science Skills - Jan 27, 2014.
  
  Tutorial: Data Science in Python; Learning from Data: Caltech free online course; MassBigData to boost Massachusetts Big Data, Analytics Ecosystem; Split on Data Science Skills: Individual vs Team approach.

  Caltech, Massachusetts, Online Education, Python Tutorial, Social Network Analysis

• JCA: Data Analyst, BI Group - Jan 26, 2014.
  
  Lead and support data-backed, results-based strategic decision making for our clients, by using our BI tool JCA Answers, by providing organization-wide BI consulting, and through our data mining and predictive modeling offerings.
• Using Data Mining to Predict the Winter Olympics Medal Counts in Sochi - Jan 25, 2014.
  
  Could data mining techniques accurately predict the medal counts at the Olympics? A predictive model could give us an estimate of the number of medals each nation might win; but how close could we get to the actual outcomes? It was a tantalizing project …

  Olympics, Russia, Sports

• Online Courses in Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Science from Statistics.com - Jan 24, 2014.
  
  Many interesting online courses covering Decision Trees, Machine Learning Tools, Python for Analytics, Social Network Analysis, Hadoop, Forecasting, Data Visualization, and more, from Statistics.com.

  Online Education, Python, R, Social Network Analysis, Statistics.com

• Cartoon: Watson and Artificial vs Natural Intelligence - Jan 24, 2014.
  
  New KDnuggets cartoon looks at Watson and compares Artificial and Natural Thinking.

  Artificial Intelligence, Cartoon, Humor, Watson

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 22-23: 30 Free Data Mining Tools; Linkurious – explore and visualize graph data - Jan 24, 2014.
  
  A somewhat random but useful review of 30+ Free Data Mining Software tools; Linkurious: a solution to explore and visualize graph data; The Data Scientist Toolbox, starts on Coursera Apr 7

  Coursera, Free Data Mining Software, Linkurious, OkCupid

• Big Data for Business Managers - Jan 23, 2014.
  
  Why do Big Data projects fail to deliver the promised value, that too despite the “clearly” established potential? What should business managers do to avoid the media hype and focus on achieving sustainable benefits from big data investments?

  Big Data ROI, Business Managers, IEEE Big Data 2013, Project Fail, Santa Clara-CA

• Globys: Applied Data Scientist, Machine Learning and Data Science - Jan 23, 2014.
  
  This is Data Science experience of a lifetime - implement (mainly in Python) machine learning and complex data analytics on massive datasets for real-time marketing.

  Python, Real-time marketing, Seattle-WA, VeriSign

• To Fit or Not to Fit Data to a Model - Jan 23, 2014.
  
  What if Shakespeare was a data scientist? Today's big data necessitates - Let the data define the model.

  GenIQ Model, Hamlet, Regression

• New Book on Realtime Analytics and Recommendation Engines - Jan 23, 2014.
  
  The book covers realtime analytics and its application to recommendation engines from a control-theoretic perspective.

  Realtime Analytics, Recommendation Engine, Recommender Systems

• SLDM Statistical Learning and Data Mining III – 10 Hot Ideas, Palo Alto, Mar 20-21 - Jan 23, 2014.
  
  Taught by top Stanford professors and leading statisticians Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani, this course presents 10 hot ideas for learning from data, and gives a detailed overview of statistical models for data mining, inference and prediction.

  Lasso, Palo Alto-CA, Regression, Robert Tibshirani, Statistical Learning, Trevor Hastie

• Northwestern Online MS in Predictive Analytics - Jan 23, 2014.
  
  Build in-demand skills for the growing analytics field, prepare for leadership opportunities, and learn from distinguished faculty and industry experts.

  Master of Science, MS, Northwestern, Online Education

• IXI Services, a division of Equifax: Marketing Data Scientist - Jan 22, 2014.
  
  Part of Strategic Analytic Solutions group, support research and development of innovative analytical solutions using econometric and statistical methodologies and techniques.
• Linkurious: Explore and Visualize Graph Data - Jan 22, 2014.
  
  Linkurious is designed to handle big data and be easy to use; it is focused on local exploration - search any information within a graph and start exploring the connections from this point.

  Graph, Graph Visualization, Neo4j, Social Network Analysis

• Clustify 4.0 adds Real-Time Predictive Coding - Jan 22, 2014.
  
  Clustify updates the predicted relevance scores for the entire document population each time a document is categorized, showing the impact on the progress pie and the precision-recall curve instantly.
• Top 10 KDnuggets tweets, Jan 20-21: Data scientists who use OS tools earn more; JHU #DataScience Specialization - Jan 22, 2014.
  
  Data scientists who master open source tools R, Python, Hadoop earn more; JHU offers 9-Course #DataScience Specialization via Coursera; The Life of a Data Scientist, Relentless, but in a Lazy Way; MADlib, a solution for #BigData Analytics

  Coursera, Johns Hopkins, Josh Wills, MADlib, Open Source

• KDnuggets 14:n02, Split on Data Science; Data Science in Python Tutorial - Jan 22, 2014.
  
  Split on Data Science - Team vs Individual Approach, Data Science in Python - free tutorial, PASS Free Online Business Analytics Training - Feb 5, Confessions of a Dataholic, and more analytics/data mining news.

  Data Science Team, PASS, Python, Strata, Tutorials

• JMP Analytically Speaking Webcasts: Rob Reul (Jan 29), Michael Schrage (Feb 12) - Jan 21, 2014.
  
  Join Analytically Speaking webcasts - conversations with thought leaders, and learn more about voice of the customer research, data visualization reporting, behavioral economics, iterative innovation, and more.

  Analytically Speaking, Customer Research, Economics of innovation, JMP

• Akamai: Principal Data Scientist - Jan 21, 2014.
  
  Akamai is growing fast and so is the volume of data we manage - if you love analyzing and extracting meaningful insight from big data, and see it applied, this opportunity is for you.

  Akamai, Cambridge-MA, Cloud

• Split on Data Science Skills: Individual vs Team Approach - Jan 21, 2014.
  
  The results of latest KDnuggets poll show an almost equal split between those who favor individual and those who favor the team approach. See the counterintuitive regional differences and interesting comments.

  Data Science, Poll, Skills, Team

• TESC Online, Affordable MBA in Data Analytics –
  Recharge Your Career - Jan 21, 2014.
  
  This online program enables graduates to use advanced data analytics to drive continuous improvement resulting in organizational sustainability, and lets you earn credit for professional certifications/expertise.

  MBA, Online Education, TESC

• MassBigData launched to boost Massachusetts Big Data, Analytics Ecosystem - Jan 20, 2014.
  
  MassBigData has a wealth of information, including publicly available Mass data sets, local #BigData events, regional jobs (over 2300 currently), a map of MassBigData companies, resources, and much more.

  Big Data, Jobs, Massachusetts

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 17-19: Learning from Data: Caltech free online course; Data scientists most used tools: SQL, R, Python, Excel - Jan 20, 2014.
  
  Learning from Data: Caltech free online course, now with captions in 40 languages; Data scientist most used tools: SQL (71%), R #rstats (43%), Python (41%), Excel (36%); 13 Machine Learning and Data Mining Books for Data Scientists; The Power of Bubble Charts to display data in 4 dimensions

  Bubble Charts, Caltech, Data Mining Books, Online Education

• KDnuggets Free Pass to Strata Conference,
  Santa Clara, Feb 11-13, 2014 - Jan 20, 2014.
  
  The O'Reilly Strata Conference brings together the brightest minds in data science and big data, decision makers and practitioners - win a free KDnuggets 2-day pass.

  Free Pass, Santa Clara-CA, Strata

• PAW: Predictive Analytics World Toronto, unique conference in Canada, May 12-15 - Jan 20, 2014.
  
  PAW Toronto is the only conference in Canada that offers an unparalleled perspective on analytics where both technical and business knowledge are integrated towards solving real-life business problems. Get Early Bird rates till Jan 24.

  John Elder, PAW, Predictive Analytics World, Toronto-Canada

• Learning from Data, Caltech Free Online Course, now with captions in 40 languages - Jan 19, 2014.
  
  Free, introductory Machine Learning online course, taught by a top-rated Caltech professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa, now with professional captioning in more than 40 languages.

  Caltech, Learning from Data, MOOC, Yaser Abu-Mostafa

• DataSift: Data Scientist - Jan 19, 2014.
  
  DataSift is among hottest big data platform companies in the world, on the cutting edge of how social data can be leveraged to unlock massive value for enterprises, brands and agencies.

  Data Platform, DataSift, Social Analytics, UK

• Thunderbird School of Global Management: Tenure Track Asst/Assoc Professor of Business Analytics - Jan 19, 2014.
  
  Teach courses in business analytics and the strategic use of information technology, with application to diverse business fields such as customer analytics, business intelligence, and talent management.

  Arizona, Business Analytics, Professor, Thunderbird

• Top stories for Jan 12-18: Tutorial: Data Science in Python; Data Science Venn Diagram v2.0 - Jan 19, 2014.
  
  Tutorial: Data Science in Python; Data Science Venn Diagram v2.0; Interpreting Model Performance with Cost Functions.

  Python Tutorial, Scicast, Venn Diagram

• SocDM: Launching the Society of Data Miners – Open Meeting, London, Feb 11 - Jan 19, 2014.
  
  The Society of Data Miners is an independent non-profit organisation which aims to increase the benefits of data mining to society, and to advance the profession of data mining. Come to the first open meeting, London, Feb 11.

  Data Mining, London-UK, SocDM, Society

• ICS (Prague): AVAST Fellowships in machine learning and data science - Jan 18, 2014.
  
  The fellows will have an excellent opportunity to cooperate with internationally recognized scientists at ICS and participate in cutting edge technology projects in the interest of AVAST, maker of the most trusted antivirus in the world.

  antivirus, AVAST, Fellowship, Prague

• Apple: Data Mining Scientist - Jan 18, 2014.
  
  Apple Data Mining Lab looks for an outstanding data scientist to design, develop, and field data mining and data science solutions with measurable impact.

  Apple, Austin-TX, Data Mining Solutions

• KDD 2014 Call for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials and Sponsorships - Jan 17, 2014.
  
  KDD 2014, the leading research conference in the field, will bring together researchers and practitioners from all aspects of data mining, knowledge discovery, and large-scale data analytics. This year special theme is Data Mining for Social Good. Abstracts due Feb 13.

  KDD-2014, New York-NY, Social Good

• 3X: A workbench for computational experiments - Jan 17, 2014.
  
  3X is an open-source software tool to ease the burden of conducting computational experiments and managing data analytics, providing a standard yet configurable structure to execute a wide variety of experiments in a systematic way.

  Computational Experiments, Stanford, Workbench

• Feedzai: Data Scientist - Jan 17, 2014.
  
  Feedzai is a startup with offices in Portugal and Silicon Valley working in online fraud prevention and digital payments, looking for Machine Learning Research Engineers and Data Scientists.

  Digital Payments, Machine Learning, Online Fraud, Portugal

• Data Science for Social Good, Chicago Jun-Aug 2014, Apply by Feb 1 - Jan 17, 2014.
  
  Data Science for Social Good 2014 Summer Fellowship at the U. of Chicago is looking for students, mentors, and project partners. Fellows apply by Feb 1.

  Chicago-IL, DSSG, Fellowship, Rayid Ghani, Social Good

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 15-16: Here is how to call Python from R; US Median Data Scientist salary: $117,500 - Jan 17, 2014.
  
  Here is how to call Python from R; Data Scientist Salary Survey: median salary in US is $117,500; Yann LeCun, Head of Facebook new AI Lab: we are limited only by how many smart people we can find.

  Facebook, Python, R, Salary, Yann LeCun

• Bosch: Senior Manager/Project Lead, Data Mining - Jan 16, 2014.
  
  The data mining team researches data mining and large-scale machine learning algorithms and systems which impact Bosch products and services in Predictive Maintenance, Health Informatics, Vehicle Diagnostics, Manufacturing, Large-Scale Simulations, and other areas.

  Automotive, Bosch, HPC, Palo Alto-CA

• BMS: Analytical Trending Expert - Jan 16, 2014.
  
  Serves as the point of a contact for statistical analysis and method trending, part of the Commercial Analytics group, supporting our global biologics QC network.

  Biologics, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Quality Control

• NIST Data Science Symposium, Mar 4-5 - Jan 16, 2014.
  
  NIST is forming a cross-cutting data science program, focused on system benchmarking and rigorous measurement. Register for NIST Data Science Symposium by Feb 21.

  Data Science, Maryland, Measurement, NIST

• FirstFuel: Data Scientist - Jan 16, 2014.
  
  FirstFuel uses energy intelligence software to help utilities engage their commercial customers and rapidly achieve energy efficiency across commercial building portfolios.

  Efficiency, Energy, First Fuel, Utilities

• Opening the Dataset: Confession of a Dataholic - Jan 16, 2014.
  
  My name is Bruce Ratner, and I am a dataholic. I am also an artist and poet in the world of statistical data. I always await getting my hands on a new dataset to crack open and paint the untapped, unsoiled numbers into analytic scenes and swirling equations.

  Data Visualization, Dataholic, Ratner

• PASS Free Online Business Analytics Training, Feb 5 - Jan 16, 2014.
  
  Join live webcasts by some of the most knowledgeable and top-rated speakers, covering Advanced Analytics in Excel, End-to-End Power BI, Big Data, Data Visualization, and more. Tune in on Feb 5, 2014.

  Excel, Online Education, PASS, SQL Server

• SciCast: a Crowdsourced Forecasting Platform for Science and Technology - Jan 15, 2014.
  
  Join tech people from around the world in the largest collaborative science and technology forecasting effort, ever, to make real-time predictions on future innovations and significant events in science and technology.
• DuPont Pioneer: Data Scientist - Jan 15, 2014.
  
  Develop and apply machine learning, data mining, or other computational approaches to extract insights from large agronomic data sets. Identify and demonstrate novel ways machine learning approaches can improve decisions.

  Agro, DuPont, Genetic, Pioneer

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 13-14: Data Science in Python, Free Tutorial; How Netflix Got Analytics Wrong, Then Right - Jan 15, 2014.
  
  Data Science in Python Tutorial, free tutorial; How Netflix Got Analytics Wrong, Then Right; Cartoon: Lets solve this problem by using #BigData none of us have any idea what to do with ; "Data Scientist" fever in Japan is gone?
• PAN Competition: Plagiarism Detection, Author Identification, Author Profiling - Jan 15, 2014.
  
  Take part in one of 3 tasks: Plagiarism Detection - given a document, is it an original? Author Identification - given a document, who wrote it? Author Profiling - given a document, what is author age / gender?

  Author Detection, Author Profiling, Competition, Plagiarism Detection

• Free Tutorial: Data Science in Python - Jan 14, 2014.
  
  This Data Science in Python tutorial covers importing data, scikit-learn basics, aggregation and grouping, feature engineering, model evaluation, and deployment.

  Data Science Tutorial, IPython, Python, Yhat

• DSE 400 Fast Track to Data Science, Free Online Course - Jan 14, 2014.
  
  This free online course will explore Machine Learning, Big Data Architecture, Analytics, and Evidence-Oriented Systems Engineering, and will offer mentorship from experts along with practical skills and techniques. Course starts Jan 19.

  Data Science Education, DSE 400, Online Education

• Interpreting Model Performance with Cost Functions - Jan 13, 2014.
  
  Cost functions are critical for the correct assessment of performance of data mining and predictive models. This series goes deep into the statistical properties and mathematical understanding of each cost function and explores their similarities and differences.

  Cost Function, Model Performance, Online Education, Salford Systems

• Analytics, Mathematics, and Art of Rene Romero Schuler and Van Gogh - Jan 13, 2014.
  
  Is there a connection between Analytics, Mathematics and arts? How do we add arts flavor to analytics business is the question. And answer lies in century old painting by Van Gogh called "The Starry Night" which represents perfect turbulence.

  Art, Mathematics, Rene Romero Schuler, Van Gogh

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 10-12: Data Science Venn Diagram v2.0; Reference Texts on Data Mining and Machine Learning - Jan 13, 2014.
  
  Data Science Venn Diagram v2.0 - how to find "unicorn" data scientist ; Reference Texts on Data Mining and Machine Learning; Top 10 Job titles that didnt exist 5 yrs ago: 6. Data Scientist; Google can now identify house numbers on Street View, using deep learning

  Data Science, Padhraic Smyth, UCI, Venn Diagram

• Data Scientist, Engineering-24520 - Jan 13, 2014.
  
  Help build the next generation of products for digital marketing, work on research and development projects ranging from predicting on-line ads performance to modeling algorithm implementation in production systems.

  Adobe, Data Scientist, Online advertising, San Jose

• Top stories for Jan 5-11: MADlib: Big Data Machine Learning in SQL; Rock Stars of Big Data - Jan 12, 2014.
  
  MADlib: Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists; IEEE Rock Stars of Big Data Presentations; Hadoop Elephants in the Cloud.

  Hadoop, MADlib, SQL

• University of Helsinki / Aalto: 15 doctoral student positions - Jan 11, 2014.
  
  Join world-class research team at Aalto U & U. of Helsinki, in Algorithms and machine learning, Creative technologies, Life science informatics, networked systems or related areas. Apply by Feb 14.
• Zementis: Teradata and IBM Partnership, Hadoop/ML best practices, James Taylor on standards - Jan 11, 2014.
  
  Zementis Universal PMML Plug-in (UPPI), which enables the execution of standards-based predictive analytics, now works for Teradata and IBM PureData systems. Also learn about Best practices for Hadoop and Machine Learning and read James Taylor on analytics standards.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 8-9: Great list of NLP APIs; Python erodes R hegemony, but do not go all-in Python now - Jan 10, 2014.
  
  Great list of 25+ NLP APIs for Sentiment Analysis, Text Processing, Topic Extraction; MLbase: Distributed Machine Learning using Apache Spark; "Sexy" Data Science should be a Team Sport, or it will fail ; LinkedIn files lawsuit over data-mining bots which mine user profiles

  Apache Spark, API, MLbase, NLP, Python

• Webcast: BigML Programmatic Machine Learning Made Easy, Jan 28 - Jan 9, 2014.
  
  BigML Winter release offers enhanced performance and many new features for quickly building powerful predictive models, applications and services. Learn more on Jan 28 and get a 25% discount.

  BigML, Machine Learning, Predictive Models

• PASS: 24 Hours of Business Analytics Learning, Feb 5, Free Webcast - Jan 9, 2014.
  
  Feb 5 business analytics learning online event brings you an all-star lineup of BA and BI community experts delivering best practices for getting the most from your data. 24 Hours of PASS is free, thanks to our sponsors.

  Business Analytics, PASS, SQL Server

• Vanderbilt: Health Sys Analyst Prog II- PHP Developer-1310725 - Jan 9, 2014.
  
  Help our innovative team improve medical education! Develop next generation interfaces and capabilities for medical education, building on existing custom-developed learning and curriculum management systems.

  Medical, PHP, Vanderbilt

• Wharton Online: Strategic Value of Customer Relationships, Mar 3 – Apr 27 - Jan 9, 2014.
  
  Go beyond the "average customer" to create and execute a successful strategy for business growth with Wharton Executive Education's new online program. Learn how to identify which customers are the most profitable, and how to effectively reach them. Apply now - Deadline Feb. 14.

  Customer Analytics, Customer Value, Peter Fader, Wharton

• Hadoop: Elephants in the Cloud - Jan 9, 2014.
  
  Hadoop in the Cloud became a trending topic in 2013, with many new product and project announcements. This guest post explores 6 reasons why customers are seeing increased value in this model.

  Hadoop, Hadoop 2.0, MapReduce

• Hadoop Innovation Summit, San Diego, Feb 19-20 - Jan 9, 2014.
  
  This summit boasts a line-up of world class speakers and is set to bring together professionals pioneering Hadoop in their organizations.

  Hadoop, IE Group, San Diego-CA, YARN

• Reflection: Statistician - Jan 8, 2014.
  
  We are a start-up focused on providing powerful market intelligence to the global app industry. Search for any app to see live information about its rank, revenue and downloads.
• Sand Hill 50 Swift and Strong in Big Data - Jan 8, 2014.
  
  Here is a list of 50 leaders in Big Data, based on their story, ecosystem, insight, and influence, from Actian to Wibidata.

  Companies, ecosystem

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 6-7: Why is Machine Learning top course at Stanford? MADlib: Big Data Machine Learning - Jan 8, 2014.
  
  Why Is Machine Learning the most popular course at Stanford? MADlib: Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists; Prediction for 2014: data scientists (that's you) will be worth more; Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science companies and startups
• KDnuggets 14:n01, Unicorn Data Scientists vs Team? Top Datasets on Reddit; What is wrong with Data Science - Jan 8, 2014.
  
  Latest analytics/data mining news, including Features (13) | Software (2) | Courses, Events (1) | Meetings (4) | Jobs (5) | Academic (1) | Competitions (1) | Publications (7) | Tweets (6) | News Briefs (3) | CFP (14) .
• IEEE Rock Stars of Big Data Presentations - Jan 7, 2014.
  
  This event, held at the Computer History Museum in Oct 2013, attracted a sold-out crowd who listened to 9 excellent speakers and leaders in the field - here are the presentations.

  Ethics, Healthcare, IEEE, Supercomputing

• PAW: Predictive Analytics World for Manufacturing, Chicago, June 17-18 - Jan 7, 2014.
  
  The Predictive Analytics World for Manufacturing conference will focus on several different application areas of manufacturing where predictive analytics and big data have proven to be game changers.

  Chicago-IL, Manufacturing, PAW

• December Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining Companies and Startups Activity - Jan 7, 2014.
  
  December 2013 acquisitions, startups, and company activity in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science: Answers.com, Talend, Palantir, KPMG, Datameer, Dell

  Acquisitions, Startups, VC

• INFORMS Business Analytics and Operations Research, Boston, Mar 30 – Apr 1 - Jan 7, 2014.
  
  INFORMS is a top analytics conference featuring over 100 practical talks which provide pointed "how we did it" information from hand-picked industry speakers. Keynote speakers include industry thought leader Tom Davenport. Sign up now at the super saver rates.

  Boston-MA, Business Analytics, INFORMS, Tom Davenport

• New Poll: Data Science Skills – Individual vs Team Approach - Jan 7, 2014.
  
  Data Science positions and tasks need a rare combination of Statistics, Hacking, Database, Business, and other skills. New KDnuggets Poll is asking which approach is better for filling Data Science Positions - Individual or Team?

  Data Science, Poll, Team, Unicorn

• CUNY Online MS in Data Analytics - Jan 7, 2014.
  
  CUNY SPS offers a fully online and affordable MS in Data Analytics that prepares graduates to manage and analyze Big Data. Learn more in Jan 14 info session.
• BigData TechCon: Learn HOW TO Master Big Data, Mar 31-Apr 2, Boston - Jan 6, 2014.
  
  Big Data TechCon, Mar 31-Apr 2, Boston, is the HOW-TO big data event. Use code BIGDATA for $200 discount. Save even more with early bird by Jan 24.
• MADlib: Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists - Jan 6, 2014.
  
  MADlib is open source with commercially usable BSD license; supports Postgres and Pivotal Greenplum DBMS, and provides classification, regression, clustering, topic modeling and other analytics for Big Data.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 3-5: How to build a successful Data Science team; Netflix reverse engineered Hollywood - Jan 6, 2014.
  
  How to build a successful #DataScience team; Netflix reverse engineered Hollywood to understand how people look for movies; 6000 Companies Hiring Data Scientists; An academic paper on how to search the Internet for evidence of time travel
• Top stories for Dec 29 – Jan 4: Unicorn Data Scientists vs Data Science Teams; Top Datasets on Reddit - Jan 5, 2014.
  
  Unicorn Data Scientists vs Data Science Teams; Top Datasets on Reddit; A Programmer Guide to Data Mining - Free Download
• Ayasdi: Data Scientist for Oil and Gas - Jan 4, 2014.
  
  Are you a data ninja? Do you dream about solving puzzles at night? Join us and help us solve some of the most vexing problems.
• BigML 2014 Winter Release: Faster, Easier, and more Programmatic Machine Learning - Jan 4, 2014.
  
  BigML was used to create over 600,000 predictive models in 2013; Winter 2014 release makes big advances in speed and programmability, and new development mode allows you to run unlimited tasks of up to 16 MB for FREE.
• KNIME User Group Meeting, Zurich, Feb 12-14 - Jan 4, 2014.
  
  This annual event serves an international forum for discussion of KNIME and how it is used in various fields such as business and customer intelligence, analytics and the life sciences. Early bird rates before Jan 27, 2014.
• Vanderbilt: Health Sys Analyst Programmer II 1311219 - Jan 3, 2014.
  
  Analyze operational processes and information generation or utilization. Develop, test, implement and support computer-based information systems. Assist lower level analyst programmers with technical problems.
• Biernbaum: Data Science is going 99% too fast - Jan 3, 2014.
  
  Currently Data Science (and Big Data) is a train that is going 99% faster than the rails can support. It can derail and become a failed fad. To succeed, Data Science and Big Data need to specialize.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Dec 27 – Jan 2: Oryx: Simple large-scale machine learning; Sad state of sentiment analysis - Jan 3, 2014.
  
  Oryx on GitHub: Simple real-time large-scale machine learning infrastructure; Sad state of sentiment analysis: LESS accurate than a coin toss? Practical Tools for Exploring Data and Models, by R wizard @hadleywickham; Top stories in December
• Jan-Apr Meetings in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science - Jan 3, 2014.
  
  Upcoming meetings include Oracle BIWA Summit, EGC, Sentiment Analysis Symposium, PAW San Francisco, GigaOM Structure Data, INFORMS, SBP, and SIAM Data Mining.
• Top stories in December: A Programmer Guide to Data Mining – Free Download; 3 Stages of Big Data - Jan 2, 2014.
  
  New Book: A Programmer Guide to Data Mining - Free Download; Open Source Data Science MS Curriculum; 3 Stages of Big Data; Top 2013 LinkedIn Groups; R leading, but Python is gaining
• Additions to KDnuggets in December - Jan 1, 2014.
  
  MicroStrategy Analytics Express and Data Mining Services, Skytree Machine Learning platform, Ubiq Analytics, and more education, meetings, and software.