KDnuggets^TM News 05:03, Feb 8, 2005

1. Poll Results: Income by Region: US/Canada leads, surprise for second place
2. New Poll: Data mining / analytic methods you use frequently
3. KDD-05 Call For Research Papers, absracts due Feb 18, 2005
4. KDD-05 Call For Industrial/Government Track Papers, abstracts due Feb 18, 2005
5. KDD-05 Call For Tutorial Proposals, due Mar 14, 2005
6. KDD-05 Call For Workshop Proposals, due Mar 7, 2005

7. Short course: Statistical learning and data mining, Palo Alto, Feb 24-25
8. Z Solutions team with SAS to deliver predictive analytics course
9. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Apr | Wash DC: June ]
10. Predictive Modeling Home Study Course with Lifetime Value Case Study

11. Seattle, WA: Statistician / Data Miner at Amazon.com
12. Hawthorne, NY: Director of Bioinformatics at Psychogenics, Inc.
13. Needham, MA: Hyperion (Brio) Reporting Developer at Upromise

14. Research Fellowships in Data Mining at Ericsson Ireland
15. PhD Studentship in Data Mining at ASTON UNIVERSITY, Birmingham, UK

16. Free Monthly - Data Mining Success Tips from Olivia Parr-Rud, author Data Mining Cookbook (Wiley 2001)
17. Knowledge Discovery and BI

18. Predicting Music Popularity or Together in electric dreams
19. NSA looks to informatics to connect dots
20. Application vendors to dig into data mining
21. Akoya to Fund Research by Prof. Jiawei Han
22. Search for Meaning: Normalized Google Distance Between Words
23. MicroStrategy 8 Features Integrated Reporting, Analysis and Continuous Performance Monitoring
24. Angoss Software Reports Strong Q4 and Annual Results
25. Software Taming Gene Data Pool
26. Mirror That Reflects Your Future Self
27. UC Riverside Evaluating Homeland Security Data Mining
28. Biologists turn text miners to dig for results
29. DIAGNOS Data Mining system helps discovery Kimberlite in Brazil
30. MedMined Infection Control Data Mining Surveillance Service

31. AIME'05, due Feb 9
    KDD-2005, Research Track, due Feb 18 (abstracts)
    KDD-2005, Industry/Gov Track, due Feb 18 (abstracts)
    PReMI'05: Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, due Mar 1 (extended)
    KDD-2005, Workshop proposals, due Mar 7
    KDD-2005, Tutorial proposals, due Mar 14
    FSKD'05: Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, due Mar 15
    CEAS: Conf. on Email and Anti-Spam, due Mar 15
    ML Journal spec. issue on ILP, due Mar 15
    ICML-2005 Workshop on Meta-learning, due Apr 1
    DaWak2005: Conf. on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, due Apr 15
    D&KE spec. issue on Intelligent Data Mining, due May 20
    Australian Conf. on AI, due Jul 1
    

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