KDnuggets™ News 14:n28, Oct 29

Features

• Cartoon: Halloween Costume for Big Data - Oct 28, 2014.
  New KDnuggets cartoon looks at the appropriate Halloween costume for Big Data and its companion, No Privacy.
• CRISP-DM, still the top methodology for analytics, data mining, or data science projects - Oct 28, 2014.
  CRISP-DM remains the most popular methodology for analytics, data mining, and data science projects, with 43% share in latest KDnuggets Poll, but a replacement for unmaintained CRISP-DM is long overdue.
• Will Deep Learning take over Machine Learning, make other algorithms obsolete? - Oct 27, 2014.
  Will deep learning will take over machine learning and make other algorithms obsolete, or is it too complex to use on simpler problems? We look at both sides of this discussion.
• DM Radio: Predictive Tools Are Pervasive, with KDnuggets, Predixion, RedPoint, and Appnomic, Oct 30 - Oct 21, 2014.
  Today there are many companies offering predictive analytics tools and solutions. How, where, and when can these new tools be leveraged? Listen to DM Radio with KDnuggets, Predixion, RedPoint, and Appnomic, on Oct 30.
• Predictive Analytics World events in 2015 - Oct 23, 2014.
  Check 2015 Predictive Analytics World events focused on business, workforce, healthcare, government, and manufacturing - in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, London, and Berlin.

Software

• TweetNLP: Twitter Natural Language Processing - Oct 24, 2014.
  A short overview of Natural Language Processing tools and utilities developed by Prof. Noah Smith, CMU and his team to analyze Twitter data.

Opinions

• Making Sense of Public Data - Wrangling Jeopardy - Part 2 - Oct 27, 2014.
  Wrangling Jeopardy (Part 2) describes the remaining steps of the data transformation process, detailing how we used Trifacta to structure, clean, enrich and distill Jeopardy data for analysis.
• Big Data accelerates medical research? Or not? - Oct 26, 2014.
  Take a look at how big data in healthcare brings big opportunities, but along with those opportunities come great risk if statistics aren't carefully applied to those large datasets.
• Text Mining and Election Analytics in Massachusetts - Oct 24, 2014.
  Election season is coming! Take a deeper look at some political dynamics with indico's political analysis API.
• Supermarket customers segmentation using Self-Organizing Mapping - Oct 23, 2014.
  See how a leading European supermarket chain improved customer value and profitability and identified key customer groups by applying business intelligence and analytics techniques like self-organizing maps.
• Piketty Revisited: Improving Economics through Data Science - Oct 22, 2014.
  How Data Curation and Data Science Enable More Faithful Economics (In Much Less Time) - a leading database researcher explains.

Reports

• Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit, Australia: Day 2 Highlights - Oct 28, 2014.
  Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from Paypal, Huawei and Qantas on day 2 of Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 in Sydney, Australia.
• Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit, Australia: Day 1 Highlights - Oct 22, 2014.
  Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from GE Capital, Datawatch and MapR Technologies on day 1 of Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 in Sydney, Australia.

News

• Top stories for Oct 19-25: Ebola Data Science Lessons; DM Radio, Oct 30 on Predictive Tools with KDnuggets, Predixion - Oct 26, 2014.
  Ebola Analytics and Data Science Lessons; DM Radio: Predictive Tools Are Pervasive, with KDnuggets, Predixion, RedPoint, and Appnomic, Oct 30; Big Data for Social Good IBM + Hadoop Challenge; TweetNLP: Twitter Natural Language Processing.
• IEEE ICDM 2014 Outstanding Service Award: Prof. Rao Kotagiri - Oct 25, 2014.
  IEEE ICDM 2014 highest recognition for service achievements in Data Mining goes to Prof. Rao Kotagiri from U. of Melbourne, for his work on editorial boards of IEEE TKDE, VLDB, and SADM journals, and major contributions to ICDM, ICDE, SIGMOD, PAKDD, and other conferences.
• IEEE ICDM 2014 Research Contributions Award: Prof. Jian Pei - Oct 25, 2014.
  Jian Pei wins a highest recognition for research in Data Mining for his work on the core frontiers of data mining, including pattern mining, classification, clustering, anomaly detection and outlier analysis.

Webcasts and Webinars

• Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science - Oct 28 and beyond - Oct 27, 2014.
  DM Radio: Predictive Tools Are Pervasive - with Gregory Piatetsky (KDnuggets), Predixion, others; Deep Learning + Apache Spark; Data Mining - Failure to Launch; Demystify your data flows, Data hiding, and more.
• WCAI Research: Desktop Software Subscription Analysis - Oct 27, 2014.
  A new dataset on when and how customers renew software licenses is now available for research into software purchase behavior. Register for Nov 21 webinar and submit proposals by Dec 8.

Courses

• Simplilearn: Enroll in Analytics and Big Data Training, get free Amazon Fire (until Oct 31) - Oct 27, 2014.
  Be technically competent in data analytics processes with Simplilearn Business Analytics, Big Data, SAS, R, and Hadoop training. Enroll by Oct 31 and get a free Amazon Fire.
• Zipfian Academy: Become a Data Scientist in 12 Weeks - Oct 25, 2014.
  Zipfian Academy trains engineers, scientists, and analysts to become data scientists in an intense full-time program in San Francisco. 93% of graduates find data science roles in 6 months. Applications for Winter cohort due Nov 14.

Meetings

• Analytics Street, Boston Data Analytics Conference, Nov 5-7 - Oct 28, 2014.
  Boston Analytics Street includes a workshop, a career fair, 3 Days, 45 Businesses, 16 Panels, 10 talks, 6 Keynotes and lots of learning and networking. Nov 5-7, 2014.
• H2O World, Open Source Machine Learning Meeting, Nov 18-19, Mountain View - Oct 27, 2014.
  H2O World (Nov 18-19, Mountain View) is where the users of the very popular Open Source Machine Learning Engine H2O gather to share their knowledge and know-how to build Smart Applications.
• Predictive Analytics World events in 2015 - Oct 23, 2014.
  Check 2015 Predictive Analytics World events focused on business, workforce, healthcare, government, and manufacturing - in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, London, and Berlin.

Jobs

• Higher Up Recruiting: Data Scientists, Data Miners, NLP Experts - Oct 28, 2014.
  Higher Up Recruiting is working with a San Diego based company recruiting for both Contract and Direct Hire positions for a Biotech related company in San Diego.
• Modern Analytics: Statistician/SAS Programmer - Oct 24, 2014.
  Work closely with clients during the development and implementation of statistical, score-based, and empirical models to provide high-quality statistical modeling support.
• Great West Casualty Company: Predictive Modeler - Oct 24, 2014.
  Researching, analyzing and developing predictive models to support of our mission - be the premier provider of insurance products and services for truckers.
• iCrossing: Supervisor, Insights and Data Science - Web Analytics - Oct 23, 2014.
  Build on the skills of the Sr. Digital Marketing Analyst and expand into a leadership role through overseeing a team of analytic professionals for a single client and/or a small number of clients.
• Apple: Software Engineering Manager, Analytics Insights - Oct 22, 2014.
  Apple Analytic Insight team is responsible for mitigating fraud, waste and abuse company-wide. This role is to lead a team of software engineers who build tools to support the fraud prevention efforts.

Academic and Research positions

• UIUC: Postdoc, Radiation detection with big data analytics - Oct 28, 2014.
  Postdoctoral RA tp help us start our work combining radiation detector data with big data analytics. The ideal candidate will have superior CS skills but does not need to be a nuclear engineer.

Publications

• Top-Read Big Data Journal Open Access Articles - Oct 25, 2014.
  Top-read open access articles include: Why Big Data Won't Cure Us, Predictive Modeling With Big Data: Is Bigger Really Better?, and A Data Scientist's Guide to Start-Ups.

Top Tweets

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 24-26 - Oct 27, 2014.
  Why Deep Learning is likely to make other Machine Learning algorithms obsolete;
  Open Source Distributed Analytics Engine with SQL interface;
  Data Mining Reveals How News Coverage Varies Around the World;
  3 Great (and Free) Data Science Books You Can Read Now.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 22-23 - Oct 24, 2014.
  Great viz: chances of survival of #chess pieces in average game;
  Baidu, 'Chinese Google', had big revenue jump after it started using Deep Learning;
  4 ways to become a Data Scientist w/out a PhD;
  Machine-Learning expert Michael Jordan on the Delusions of #BigData.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 20-21 - Oct 22, 2014.
  4 ways to become a Data Scientist w/out getting a PhD;
  Ebola Analytics and Data Science Lessons;
  Apple: Data Analyst;
  How to Be a Data Scientist: An Interview with Dr. Pete Meyers of Moz.

CFP - Calls for Papers

• Due Nov 1, IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored Science and Information (SAI) Conf. 2015 , July 28-30, 2015. London, UK
• Due Nov 30, Call for Chapters: Unsupervised Learning Algorithms (Springer, 2015) , M. Emre Celebi and Kemal Aydin, Editors
• Due Jan 27, IMMM 2015, The Fifth Int. Conf. on Advances in Information Mining and Management , Brussels, Belgium. Jun 21 - 26, 2015

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