KDnuggets^TM News 06:n08, May 2, 2006

1. Poll Results: Most Popular Data Mining Methods
2. New Poll: Data Mining / Analytic Tools You Used in 2006?
3. Top items from KDnuggets News 06:n07, Apr 11
4. DATA MINING CUP Contest started April 12
5. Software engineer - best job in the US ?
6. Update and CFP: Tenjinno Machine Translation Competition
7. New Data Mining Web Site Launched - kmining.com

8. Here is what experts say about the latest version of KXEN
9. Oracle Data Mining (ODM) - Free self-study tutorial
10. MiningMart software - data preparation for Knowledge Discovery
11. New release of data mining environment YALE 3.2
12. Oracle Database 10g Express Edition. Now Free

13. Salford Data Mining Training and Workshop, June 5-8, Sydney (Early Reg: May 5)
14. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Wash-DC: June | San Diego: Sept ]
15. 2nd Annual Text Analytics Summit 2006, June 22-23, Boston, MA
16. Text Mining course, online at statistics.com, June 23 - July 21
17. NN2006 - Neural Network Summer School, 3-7 July 2006, Porto, Portugal.
18. SAS Education announces new analytics lecture series

19. Redmond, WA, USA: Senior Analytics Scientist at Microsoft
20. San Diego, CA, USA: Analytical Modeling Staff Scientist - West Coast - 06001607 at SAS Institute Inc.
21. Seattle, WA: Sr. Risk Analyst, Transaction Risk Management, Amazon.com at Amazon.com
22. Menlo Park, CA: Research Associate at Allstate Research and Planning Center
23. Menlo Park, CA: Senior Research Manager at Allstate Research and Planning Center
24. Menlo Park, CA: Senior Research Associate at Allstate Research and Planning Center
25. Redmond, WA, USA.: Experimentation Platform (multiple positions) at Microsoft (Windows Live)
26. Atlanta, GA, USA: SouthEast Technical Director at KXEN
27. Austin, TX: Analytic Science Manager at Fair Isaac
28. Los Angeles, CA: Director of Category Forecasting at 20th Century Fox
29. Downtown Seattle, WA, USA: Developer - Personalization & Recommendations at Medio Systems

30. Postdoctoral Research Positions in Flanders, Belgium
31. Research fellowship opportunity at Monash University - due June 30

32. Data Mining Curriculum Proposal
33. Building Business Intelligence: Data Mining Takes a Usable Turn

34. AddressCorrector Announces Address Correction Service
35. FDA Seeks Microarray Datasets for Quality Control Project
36. Inductis Wins Data Mining Competition at the 10th PAKDD 2006
37. Microsoft Launches Competitor To Google Scholar
38. Job seekers get wise to data mining
39. StatSoft Announces STATISTICA Variance Estimation and Precision (VEPAC)
40. Personal tech/Data mining
41. Mining Medicaid
42. The prudsys DISCOVERER 5.0 offers technological progress

43. SPSS European Directions 2006, Barcelona, Spain, May 21-24
    Pharmaceutical Management Science Association Conf, Hilton Head, SC, May 21-24

44. Data Mining in the Life Sciences workshop, due May 5
    Applied AI, Spec. Issue on Applications of Grammatical Inference, due May 8
    AIRWeb 2006: Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, due May 12
    European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR-06), due May 15
    British AI-2006, due Jun 5
    ICMLA'06, due Jun 15
    IDEAS '06: Int. Database Apllications & Engineering Symp., due Jun 18
    IJDMB Biomedical Text Retrieval and Mining, due Jul 15
    Special Issue on Visual Analytics, due Jul 31
    

we humans are genetically programmed for pattern recognition

Mark Klein, in DM Review