KDnuggets^TM News 05:n22, Nov 22, 2005

1. Poll Results: Scaling up is the top data mining problem
2. New Poll: Your Text Mining Experience
3. Fayyad Interview, part 3: his favorite activity
4. Fayyad Interview: in 5 years ...
5. Fayyad Interview: recent books read
6. Fayyad Interview: advice to students - the next frontier
7. KDD-2006 Call For Research Papers, abstracts due March 3
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9. Get started with Oracle Data Mining self-study tutorial (Free)
10. Free SPSS Data Mining Tips Guide ... see how data mining gets results!
11. Ghostminer Data Mining News

12. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Jan ]
13. Predictive Modeling Self-Study Course - 40% Off

14. Parsippany, NJ, USA: Senior Business Analyst - Global Consumer Analytics at RCI
15. Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA: Research Programmer (Specializing as a Text Mining Analyst) at National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC
16. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Multiple positions in machine learning-based information extraction software at Textkernel
17. Southington, CT, USA: Senior Research Consultant at The Hartford
18. Champaign, IL, USA: Research Programmer - Machine Learning Analyst at National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC

19. Faculty in Statistics at U. Maryland School of Business
20. PhD Studentship at U. of Luxemburg, app. due Dec 5, 2006

21. New Book: An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation
22. SAS M2005 Conference Report
23. Blaha Promotes Referential Integrity for Object Databases
24. Finding Profits in Material-Handling Data Collected Under Mandate

25. Amazon creates Mechanical Turk AI program that asks humans for help
26. Business Objects Partners with ThinkAnalytics
27. HPC (High-Performance Computing) Analytics Challenge Finalists
28. IBM urges mining blogs, wikis for vital business data
29. Best Practices for Mining Retail Transactions
30. Sentient's new DataDetective version, supports SQL Server 2005
31. EDF Energy keeps eye on bad debt
32. Basis Technology and TEMIS join to deliver multilingual text mining solutions
33. Google Gives Web Analytics Away for Free
34. Apollo announces Inventory Forecasting Solution for Retailers
35. Insightful releases advanced search and text analysis software
36. Netezza Performance Server System Now Certified with SPSS Clementine
37. High-Tech Methods Crack Farm Insurance Cheats
38. Anderson Analytics on Mining Text in Guest Satisfaction Surveys
39. Bill Gates on Data Mining

40. Machine Learning In Finance, Whistler, B.C., Canada, Dec 9, 2005

41. Int. Conference on Machine Learning 2007 - Call For Site Proposals
42. Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining Workshop, due Jan 6
    Text Mining 2006 Workshop, due Jan 9
    SIGIR'06, due Jan 10
    NASA Data Mining Workshop, due Jan 16
    KDD 2006, ACM Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, due Mar 3 (abstracts)
    Weblogging Ecosystems, due Mar 10
    Machine Learning for Computer Security spec. issue, due Mar 15
    

We know that America's world leadership will be secured by those who operate on the frontier of knowledge discovery, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Nov 15, 2005.