KDnuggets^TM News 05:02, Jan 26, 2005

1. Poll Results: Popular Text Mining Tools
2. New Poll: Your annual income and region
3. Resources for Distributed Data Mining
4. KDD 2004 talks (video/audio) available on CDs
5. Books for self-learner

6. Webcast: Shaping the Future - Leveraging the Power of Predictive Analytics, Feb 1, Feb 22
7. KXEN Predictive Analytics Discovery Business Seminar: Boston, Portland, Seattle
8. Leverage the Power of Data Mining, Salford's Recommended Training and Conferences 2005

9. Colorado Springs, CO and Annapolis Junction, MD: Data Analyst (2 positions) at Austin Logistics
10. Orlando, FL: Research Scientist at MEDai, Inc.

11. Vivisimo/Clusty as Text Analysis/Mining software

12. IEEE SMCB Special Section on Distributed and Mobile Data Mining
13. Wessex IT Book: Data Mining V: Data Mining, Text Mining and their Business Applications
14. Text Data Mining in Business Intelligence

15. Dept. Homeland Security nominee Chertoff -- a data-mining advocate
16. RiverGlass Leads Data Analytics Sector Shift to Real-Time
17. Data Mining and Privacy Fight in 2005
18. New Fair Isaac Technology Brings Power of Precision Marketing to Retailers
19. KXEN Analytic Framework Selected by LoanPerformance to Support PreTell Prepayment Scores
20. OmniViz and Infocom Integrate Data Mining, Gene Expression Software
21. Valen Technologies and Francis Analytics Partner to Improve Actuarial Risk Selection
22. In Age of Security, ChoicePoint Mines Wealth Of Personal Data
23. SIAM membership in developing countries
24. US Dept. of Defense mines data to detect abuse
25. The Open Mind Common Sense Project

26. ISI-2005: Intelligence and Security Informatics, due Jan 30
    Special Track on Data Mining, IEEE CBMS 2005, due Feb 7
    ICML 2005, due Feb 11 (tutorial proposals)
    PReMI'05, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, due Feb 15, 2005
    Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, due Feb 18
    Multimedia Information Systems, due Feb 28
    Privacy-Enhanced Personalization Workshop, due Mar 7
    Business Process Intelligence Workshop, due Mar 18
    WebDB 2005: Workshop On The Web And Databases, due Mar 23
    Discovery Science, due May 20
    CompLife '05, due May 15
    

Last KDnuggets Issue attributed this quote to Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

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.

Carl Cook emailed that almost the same quote belongs to Hellen Keller (1880-1968):

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Who is right? Perhaps Bell said it first, and Keller added ?