KDnuggets^TM News 05:n12, Jun 21, 2005

1. SIGKDD Elections: New Chair, Treasurer, and Directors elected
2. Poll Results: Data storage formats
3. New Poll: Your Data Mining Role(s)
4. KDD-2005 Call for Participation: Early Registration due July 15.
5. KDD-Cup 2005 Update

6. S-PLUS7: Working w/ BigData + Functional Data Analysis courses
7. Salford Systems Training Schedule Worldwide
8. Author Ron Cody offers a Data Cleaning course
9. new CMU professional masters degree in VLIS

10. New York, NY: 050013503 - Decision Tech. Senior Analyst at JPMorgan Chase
11. Seattle, WA: Director of Technology - Online Marketing at Amazon.com
12. San Jose, CA: Quantitative Analyst, Global Rules at eBay
13. Cary, NC, USA: Research Statistician - 05001640 at SAS
14. Seattle, WA: Software Development Engineer - Associates at Amazon.com
15. San Jose, CA: People-centric Knowledge Management - Researcher and Programmer at PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Advanced Research
16. New York, NY and Chicago, IL: Sales Engineer at SPSS, Inc
17. Seattle, WA: Technical Program/Product Manager, Online Marketing at Amazon.com
18. Cleveland, OH, USA: Director of Contact Analytics at National City Corp.
19. Toronto, Canada: Sr. Manager, Activation Marketing at eBay (Canada)
20. Chicago, Illinois: Software Engineer, Text Mining and Information Retrieval at Dieselpoint, Inc.

21. WordStat 5, content analysis and text-mining tool

22. New conference proceedings: WIT Data Mining VI ...
23. Anticipation Game: ComputerWorld on Data and Text Mining

24. Wei Wang awarded Microsoft Faculty Award for data mining and bioinformatics research
25. Top Web Analytics Problem is ...
26. NAG And EWA Systems To Create Next Generation Hybrid Data Mining Solutions
27. ID Analytics Selects KXEN to Amplify Model Performance
28. Business School Analyzes Donations with ASA's Predictive Modeling Software
29. UK gambling group Gala gets SPSS data mining software to analyse customer info
30. I/Pro Acquires web analytics company Accrue

31. Salford Systems Data Mining Conferences 2006: papers due Oct 1

32. Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR-05), due 11 Jul
    Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning Workshop at ECML-PKDD 2005, due 25 Jul
    ECML/PKDD 2005 Discovery Challenge, due 25 Jul
    ECML/PKDD05 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams, due 25 Jul
    ECML/PKDD-05 Workshop on {Mining Spatio-Temporal Data}, due 25 Jul
    Salford Systems Data Mining 2006 Conference, due 1 Oct
    Session on Web Mining at AIA ~ 2006, due 15 Oct
    AEI Spec. Issue on Applications Eligible for Data Mining, due 25 Nov
    

There once was a data miner,
who's models grew finer and finer.
But as his accuracy soared,
he found himself bored,
so he quit research and opened a diner

David Hanley

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