KDnuggets™ News 14:n18, Jul 16

Features

• Cartoon: Facebook data science experiment and Happy Cats - Jul 5, 2014.
  New KDnuggets cartoon looks at the Facebook recent data science experiment on emotion manipulation and the importance of happy kittens.
• OnlyBoth MLB Baseball Knowledge Discovery Application - Jul 15, 2014.
  Baseball fans and machine learning enthusiasts can now find interesting insights about any player in baseball history using OnlyBoth Baseball - a free web and mobile app.
• Data Mining/Data Science “Nobel Prize”: ACM SIGKDD 2014 Innovation Award to Pedro Domingos - Jul 10, 2014.
  KDD 2014 Innovation Award, the highest award for technical excellence in the field of Data Mining and Data Science, was awarded to Prof. Pedro Domingos for his foundational research in data stream analysis, cost-sensitive classification, adversarial learning, and Markov logic networks.
• Interview: Marc Smith, Chief Social Scientist, Connected Action, on Why We Need Open Tools for Social Networks - Jul 14, 2014.
  We discuss NodeXL impact stories, upcoming NodeXL features, importance of an open environment, future of social media analytics, advice for novice researchers and more.
• When Watson Meets Machine Learning - Jul 2, 2014.
  Our report on a recent Cognitive Systems meetup co-sponsored by IBM Watson and NYU Center for Data Science, IBM Watson Ecosystem, and machine learning applications, from healthcare to cognitive toys. You will want Fang!
• PAW: Predictive Analytics World Healthcare, Oct 6-7, Boston - Jul 15, 2014.
  To learn more about healthcare analytics, join us at Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare in Boston, and be sure to use special KDnuggets discount.

Software

• GraphLab Create: large-scale machine learning platform for graph, structured, and text data - Jul 15, 2014.
  GraphLab Create 1.0 brings large-scale machine learning capabilities to enterprises, and is the first to handle graph, structured, and text data in one platform.
• BIDMach machine learning toolkit - Jul 14, 2014.
  BIDMach machine learning toolkit offers "rooflined" (optimized to the limit) compute primitives and competitive performance on learning tasks like regression, clustering, classification, and matrix factorization.

Opinions, Interviews, and Reports

• Manufacturing Analytics Summit 2014 Chicago: Day 1 Highlights - Jul 14, 2014.
  Highlights from the presentations by Analytics leaders from McCormick, HP, Patheon and Boeing on day 1 of Manufacturing Analytics Summit 2014 in Chicago.
• Interview: Amy Gershkoff, Director of Customer Analytics & Insights, eBay on How to Design Custom In-House BI Tools - Jul 11, 2014.
  We discuss key principles for designing business intelligence tools, exploring causation based on correlation insights, attributes of future Analytics leaders, interesting Big Data trends, important qualities in data scientists and more.
• Business Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 Chicago: Day 2 Highlights - Jul 11, 2014.
  Highlights from the presentations by Business Analytics leaders from State of Illinois, Navistar, BMO Harris Bank and McGraw Hill Education on day 2 of Business Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 in Chicago.
• Chief Data Officer Summit 2014 - Day 2 Highlights - Jul 11, 2014.
  Highlights from the presentations by Data Governance experts from Visa, Bing, San Francisco County, and RS Investments at Chief Data Officer Summit 2014 in San Francisco, CA.
• How Xbox, Big Data & Statistical Analysis Can Measure Public Opinion - Jul 11, 2014.
  Could the Xbox gaming platform and Big Data hold the key to generating accurate measures of public opinion, such as election polling? A team of statistical scientists think so.
• Interview: Dave Marvit, Innovation Strategy Consultant, Fujitsu on Privacy and Sentiment Analysis challenges - Jul 9, 2014.
  We discuss the modern sentiment analysis challenges, how to address privacy concerns, Big Data predictions and more.
• Business Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 Chicago: Day 1 Highlights - Jul 9, 2014.
  Highlights from the presentations by Business Analytics leaders from Bank of America, Northern Trust, AOL and Liberty Mutual on day 1 of Business Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 in Chicago.

News

• June 2014 Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining Acquisitions and Startups Activity - Jul 9, 2014.
  June 2014 acquisitions, startups, and company activity in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science: MapR, CloudPhysics, Clari, ThoughtSpot, SiSense, Elasticsearch, Trifacta, @CBinsights startup post-mortem lessons, and more.
• Top stories for Jul 6-12 - Jul 13, 2014.
  Cartoon: Facebook data science experiment and Happy Cats; Data Mining/Data Science "Nobel Prize": ACM SIGKDD 2014 Innovation Award to Pedro Domingos; How Xbox, Big Data & Statistical Analysis Can Measure Public Opinion.
• Top stories for Jun 29 - Jul 5 - Jul 6, 2014.
  Do you need a Masters Degree to become a Data Scientist?; Is "Data Scientist" more than "Data Analyst" ?; When Watson Meets Machine Learning; 100 Big Data Companies Analyzed.
• Top stories in June: Does Deep Learning Have Deep Flaws? Cartoon: Big Data and World Cup - Jul 3, 2014.
  Does Deep Learning Have Deep Flaws? Cartoon: Big Data and World Cup Football; KDnuggets 15th Annual Data Mining Software Poll: RapidMiner Continues To Lead; The Cardinal Sin of Data Mining and Data Science: Overfitting.

Webcasts and Webinars

• Webinar (July 16): Driving business value with text analytics - Jul 8, 2014.
  Learn from Toyota and Nordstrom experts who successfully used text analytics to really understand their customers behavior, make more accurate data-driven strategic decisions, and get ROI on marketing.
• Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science - July 15 and beyond - Jul 14, 2014.
  Hadoop, Data Curation, Text Mining, Driving business value with text analytics, SQL on Hadoop, Graph Analytics on Hadoop, Apache Spark, How Can Analytics Improve Business, and more.
• Webinar (July 23): How Can Analytics Improve Business? - Jul 10, 2014.
  Register for this episode with host Eric Kavanagh, and leading analysts Dr. Robin Bloor and Dr. Kirk Borne to learn critical success factors for using analytics effectively.

Courses

• Making sense of text analytics - Jul 15, 2014.
  Text Analytics and Sentiment Mining Using SAS course teaches you how to organize, manage and mine textual data to extract the best information to improve your business. Atlanta in August and Rockville in October.

Meetings

• Big Data TechCon, The How-To Conference, Oct 27-29, San Francisco - Jul 15, 2014.
  Plan now to attend Big Data TechCon in San Francisco, to learn HOW-TO accommodate the terabytes and petabytes of data, learn the latest big data technologies, mingle and network, and be inspired by keynotes.
• PAW: Predictive Analytics World Healthcare, Oct 6-7, Boston - Jul 15, 2014.
  To learn more about healthcare analytics, join us at Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare in Boston, and be sure to use special KDnuggets discount.
• Data Analytics Week, Nov 10-13, Las Vegas - Jul 15, 2014.
  Join Data Analytics Week in Las Vegas, Nov 10-13, to raise your analytics expertise, participate in valuable networking and idea sharing. Special KDnuggets discount.
• Big Data Innovation Summit returns to Boston, Sep 25-26 - Jul 10, 2014.
  Big Data Innovation Summit returns to Boston on Sep 25-26, 2014, with 8 tracks and over 80 speakers from top companies and organizations. Get Early Bird pass by July 18.

Jobs

• Disney | ABC TV Group: Principal Data Scientist - Jul 15, 2014.
  Design and manage the execution of data analysis and modeling projects aimed at solving high-impact business problems for Disney/ABC TV group media networks.
• Unity Technologies: Big Data Backend Engineer - Jul 15, 2014.
  This position offers the unique opportunity of building a data intelligence platform on top of an existing but untapped dataset of unprecedented size and fidelity.
• Modern Analytics: Senior Analytics Consultant - Jul 11, 2014.
  This full-time consulting role provides thought leadership and hands-on support for day-to-day analytic operations to key clients. San Diego, CA.
• Modern Analytics: Intermediate Statistician/SAS Programmer - Jul 11, 2014.
  This full-time consulting role works closely with clients during the development and implementation of statistical, score-based, and empirical models to provide high-quality statistical modeling support. San Diego, CA.
• D50 Media: Senior Tableau Developer - Jul 10, 2014.
  Working with industry leading clients, use large data sets to build visual representations of the data to measure campaign performance and make data-driven marketing decisions.
• Pew Research Center: Director, Pew Research Center Labs - Jul 10, 2014.
  Lead the creation of Labs that will provide the expertise to experiment with new data sets and seek out new research methods and opportunities that complement and expand our traditional research agenda.
• Salford Systems: Marketing Statistician - Jul 3, 2014.
  Passionate and enthusiastic about statistics and analytics, enjoy solving problems and creating educational content, have excellent communication skills and the ability to work with technical and marketing departments.
• A Malta technology startup: Data Scientist - Jul 3, 2014.
  Looking for a Data Scientist who is an analytical, statistics loving, number cruncher who is driven and likes to work with technology, statistics, mathematics and business.
• Booking: Data Scientist - Jul 2, 2014.
  Help steer the improvements of our products, give strategy perspective to our teams, and provide business understanding to the organization based on your data analysis.

Top Tweets

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 11-13 - Jul 14, 2014.
  Dilbert: Avoid automating things that you should not be doing You may never be truly anonymous in a #BigData world Why Argentina could not win the #WorldCup2014 cleanly? The OpenCPU System, a big step towards a universal interface for #BigData.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 7-10 - Jul 13, 2014.
  Appropriate after #BrazilvsGermany - IBM #Watson gets a Swear Filter How Birth Year Influences Political Views Analytics methods that "think" like Humans Why lists of experts in Statistics, Data Science rarely intersect.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 4-6 - Jul 8, 2014.
  KDnuggets Cartoon examines happy kittens and Facebook emotion manipulation data science experiment plyrmr package for making R work seamlessly with Hadoop Useful for #DataScience: Simple script from setting up R, Git, and Jags on Amazon EC2 How companies use R to compete.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 2-3 - Jul 4, 2014.
  For advanced Data Scientists: Tutorial in Gradient boosting machines 33 most notable Data Scientists on Twitter Leada, Berkeley-based startup, offers a platform to Practice Data Science.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jun 30 - Jul 1 - Jul 2, 2014.
  Is "Data Scientist" more than "Data Analyst"? 41 Big Data Influencers - Journalists, Public Sector, Industry, Academia Alteryx and Databricks to lead development of Apache SparkR Top data mining researcher @Jure Leskovec lecture on Webgraph structure.

CFP - Calls for Papers

• ICCBR-14 Workshop on Synergies between CBR and Data Mining, due Jul 15
• The 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Granular Computing (IEEE Grc2014), due Jul 20
• Doctoral Consortium on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, due Jul 21
• The Fourth Int. Workshop On Climate Informatics, due Jul 25
• The 14th IEEE Int. Conf. on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE-2014), due Jul 31
• Fifth IEEE Int. Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM 2014), due Aug 10
• SCDM 2014: 2nd Scalable Cloud Data Management Workshop, due Aug 30
• 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL Int. Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial-2014), due Aug 31
• Data Streams Track, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2015, due Sep 12
• Discovery Summit Brussels, due Sep 19

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