KDnuggets^TM News 05:n18, Sep 27, 2005

1. Most popular OS for data mining
2. Parallel computers for data mining?
3. ICDM-2005 relocated to Houston, Nov 27-30, 2005; Early reg. deadline Oct 22
4. Jon Kleinberg - 2005 MacArthur Fellow

5. Get started with Oracle Data Mining self-study tutorial (Free)
6. Free SPSS Data Mining Tips Guide ... see how data mining gets results!
7. Compumine Rule Discovery System 2.1 Released
8. AlphaMiner: new open source data mining tool

9. Insightful Webcast: Safety Data Analysis and Reporting, Sep 29, 8 am PT
10. SPSS Webcast, Sep 29: Increase Your Return on Customer in Finance and Banking with Data Mining
11. BS degree program, "Discovery Informatics", started at the College of Charleston

12. Luton, UK: Data Analyst at ClarityBlue
13. Collegeville, PA: Principal Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline
14. Mayfield Village (suburb of Cleveland), OH: R & D Analyst at Progressive Group of Insurance Companies
15. Irvine, CA; Petaluma, CA; or East Hartford, CT: Experienced Data Mining Professionals at Full Capture Solutions, Inc.
16. Redmond, WA: Multiple positions for Platform to help understand users intent at Microsoft
17. London and Yorkshire, UK: Graduate entrant opportunity at Alaric Systems
18. London and Yorkshire, UK: Data analysis and fraud detection algorithm development at Alaric Systems
19. Redmond, WA: Data Mining Analyst at Microsoft
20. Pasadena, CA 91103: Manager, Market Strategy Optimization at Yahoo! Search Marketing

21. Research Associates and Research Studentships at Imperial College, London, UK

22. New Journal: Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB) - Call for Papers
23. CACM: Criminal Network Analysis and Visualization

24. ASA Corp News - Russian Bank Integrates ASA's Fraud Detection Solution
25. KXEN Announces Partner Program to Make Predictive Analytics More Accessible for Business Users
26. Silicon Insider: Sweet Music From a Simple Theory
27. ZDnet: Senators grill witnesses on Army data mining
28. New Patent Covers Support Vector Machine Pre-Processing Methods
29. Data Mining at Australian Taxation Office
30. U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Purchases InFact
31. Preference engines - do they broaden tastes or narrow them?

32. 2005 Insightful User Conference, Princeton, NJ, Oct 26-27

33. Machine Learning In Finance (NIPS*2005), due Oct 14
    AusDM05 - Australasian Data Mining Conf., due Oct 15
    PAKDD 2006, due Oct 31 (tutorials)
    NIPS 2005 Workshop: Inductive Transfer, due Oct 21
    2006 Pharmaceutical Mgmt Science Conf., due Oct 28
    Industrial Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM-Leipzig), due 15 Jan
    VLDB 2006, due Feb 7

Leonardo da Vinci version of Occam's razor.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
(thanks to Wikipedia)