KDnuggets^TM News 06:n05, Mar 14, 2006

1. Poll Results: Data Miners Income by Region
2. New poll: How many different emails you have?
3. New KDnuggets section: Analytics blogs
4. Click fraud detection
5. Most Popular KDnuggets News Items from February

6. Oracle Data Mining (ODM) - Free self-study tutorial
7. Free SPSS Text Mining report� Make your unstructured text data count!
8. DecisionStudio-Professional Desktop BI platform (open source, GPL)

9. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: April | Wash-DC: June ]
10. SOA Predictive Modeling and Risk Adjustment Seminar, Chicago, Apr 5-6
11. Neural Network Course: Orlando, FL, May 8-12, 2006

12. San Francisco, CA: Financial Analyst at Providian Financial
13. Cambridge, MA or Irvine, CA: Senior Statistician - Architect at ChoiceStream
14. Cambridge, MA or Irvine, CA: Statistician-Scientist at ChoiceStream
15. Chicago, IL or Palo Alto, CA, USA: Researcher at Accenture Technology Labs
16. Germany (Munich) or Netherlands (Amsterdam); can be home based: Pre-Sales Consultant at Chordiant
17. San Jose, CA, USA: Quantitative Analytics Manager, eBay at eBay
18. San Jose, CA, USA: Knowledge Management Research Programmer at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Center for Advanced Research
19. San Jose, CA, USA: People-centric Knowledge Management - Researcher and Programmer at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Center for Advanced Research
20. Des Moines, IA, USA: Specialist, Statistical Analysis at Nationwide Insurance
21. Chicago, IL: Senior Statistical Analyst at TransUnion
22. Tarrytown, NY: Director of Bioinformatics at Psychogenics, Inc.

23. New publication and bookmark management system
24. ODBMS.org NEWS 3/13/2006: Vinton Cerf and Philippe Kahn on Innovation
25. Why Data Mining Won't Stop Terror
26. EDM (Enterprise Decision Management) blog by James Taylor
27. The driving force behind Yahoo Research
28. Searching for the Future - Yahoo Tech Buzz Game

29. (Data) Mining for Gold, Silver and PGMs, Part 1
30. To Target or not to Target: Are Hispanic Teen Car Buyers a Worthwhile Segment?
31. Rakesh Agrawal, Vladimir Vapnik Elected to National Academy of Engineering
32. Parmenides Software to bring order to information chaos
33. Koadarray V2.6 for Automated Microarray Image Analysis and Quantification
34. IBM Updates Data Warehouse Line
35. Analytic Learning at P&G
36. Unica buys Sane Solutions, Web analytics software maker
37. Democrats' Data Mining Stirs an Intraparty Battle
38. Synthetic Validity: Selection Tool Could Revolutionize Hiring, Online Dating
39. Comcast deploys CallMiner for call data mining

40. Sydney, Australia, Jun 6-8 2006: Salford Systems Data Mining Training and Workshop

41. Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning, due Mar 31
    Salford Systems Data Mining Workshop (Sydney), due Apr 1
    AI & evidence-based techniques in healthcare workshop, due Apr 15
    Visual Computing (ISVC06), due Apr 24
    Visual Analytics & Spatial Decision Support, due May 15
    
42. ECML-PKDD Discovery Challenge 2006: Call for Participation
43. VAST 2006 - Visual analytics contest

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