KDnuggets^TM News 04:24, Dec 21, 2004

1. Poll Results: Top Reasons for taking a course
2. New Poll: KDnuggets News Email Format - text or HTML?
3. KDnuggets top search terms in 2004
4. Yahoo! Appoints Dr. Usama Fayyad as Chief Data Officer

5. McLean, VA: Data Mining Specialist, Senior at Booz Allen Hamilton
6. San Francisco, CA: Data Analyst/Architect (16 weeks project) at M Squared
7. Richmond, VA: Sr. Manager, IT Infrastructure, Strategy for Data Analysis (501181) at Capital One
8. Redmond, WA: (Data Mining) Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
9. Saint Louis, MO: Data Mining Analyst at MasterCard
10. Cleveland, OH: Modeling Manager, Consumer Credit at KeyCorp
11. Cleveland, OH: Sr. Modeling Analyst at KeyCorp
12. Cleveland, OH: Modeling Analyst at KeyCorp
13. Malvern, PA: Research Scientists (Machine Learning / Probabilistic Inference) at Siemens Medical Systems
14. New York, NY: SAS Senior Administrator (3 mo contract) at Inductis
15. New York, NY: SAS Statistician Guru at Poindexter Systems

16. OSSmole: new open source data repository

17. Faculty Position at Univ. of Arizona MIS Department

18. The Butterfly Effect: Estimating Faux-New Customers

19. Florida E-Vote Study Debunked
20. Zahavi: Attitudinal Data Can Humanize Data Mining
21. FundGuard from Angoss helps predict mutual fund sales and reduce redemption risk
22. Chordiant to Acquire KIQ
23. Anonymous data-mining technology protects privacy
24. Visual Numerics Library with Neural Network Functionality
25. Genalytics Enhances its DB Extract Module
26. Toyota's data warehousing and data mining helps make it world's No. 2 automaker

27. Salford Data Mining Conference: Solving Real World Challenges, New York, March 2005

28. SIAM (SDM-05) Workshop on Feature Selection for Data Mining, due Jan 7
    EURO-PAR 2005 Parallel and Distributed DB, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, due Jan 31
    AIRWeb '05: Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, due Feb 4
    Symposium on Visual Data Mining, due Mar 1
    Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics, due Mar 4
    CEAS 2005: Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, due Mar 15
    ILP 2005: Inductive Logic Programming, abstracts due Mar 18
    Special Issue on Mining Low-Quality Data, due May 1

"It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. A statistician is one who has learned how to get valid evidence from statistics and how (usually) to avoid being misled by irrelevant facts. It�s too bad that we apply the same name to this kind of person that we use for those who only tabulate. It�s as if we had the same name for barbers and brain surgeons because they both work on the head." Robert Hooke, How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians New York, NY: Marcel-Dekker, Inc., 1983, page 1 (Thanks to B. D. McCullough )