KDnuggets^TM News 05:01, Jan 11, 2005

1. Poll Results: Majority prefers Text format
2. New Poll: Text Analysis / Text Mining Software
3. Requests and KDnuggets FAQ section

4. Data Miners team with SAS to deliver training
5. Short course: Statistical learning and data mining, Palo Alto, Feb 24-25

6. Omaha, NE: Director of Research and Development, Data Mining and Modeling at Omnium Worldwide
7. San Jose, CA: Sr. Database Marketing Manager at eBay
8. Wilton, CT; Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA: Account Director at marketing analytics company
9. Chicago, IL: Quantitative Research Professional at CITADEL INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C.
10. Lanham, Maryland: Senior Manager at Merkle Direct Marketing
11. Burlington, MA (Metro Boston): Sr/Princ Member of Technical Staff/Personalization at Oracle
12. Waltham, MA, USA: Scientist at Lycos
13. Waltham, MA, USA: Senior Software Engineer at Lycos
14. Seattle, WA: Senior Software Engineer, Natural Language Search Engine at Insightful
15. Sandpoint, Idaho: Statistician at Coldwater Creek

16. Latest Version of SPSS Data Mining Workbench Offers In-Database Modeling with Oracle� Database 10g

17. New Book: Web Mining: Applications and Techniques, by A. Scime
18. New Book: Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining
19. Information Visualization for Business -- Past & Future

20. Any books suggestions for self-learner?
21. Resources for Distributed data mining ?
22. On-line data mining courses ?

23. Analytics: The next stop for open source?
24. ACLU and Data Mining for Dollars
25. Identix Facial Recognition Data-Mining Platform used in Middle East
26. Aegis Acquires iProspect for $50M
27. Data Mining Blogs
28. DataLab USA Takes Home NCDM Database Excellence Award

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

30. KDD-2005 Research Papers, due Feb 18 (abstracts)
31. KDD-2005 Industrial/Government Track Papers, due Feb 18 (abstracts)
32. KDD-2005 Tutorials Proposals, due Mar 14
33. KDD-2005 Workshop Proposals, due Mar 7
34. IJCAI-05, Jan 21
    IEEE CBMS 2005: Computer-Based Medical Systems, due Jan 26
    Special Session on Ensemble Methods for Extreme Environments, IEEE SMC 2005, due Mar 1
    ICML 2005, due Mar 8
    MLJ Spec Issue on INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING, due Mar 15 (abstracts)
    KCap'05: Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture, due May 6
    ICDM'05: IEEE Int. Conference on Data Mining, due Jun 15

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell (thanks to http://personal.vsnl.com/janmejay/hpquote.html)