KDnuggets^TM News 06:n20, Oct 23, 2006

1. Poll Results: Interest in the Netflix Prize
2. New Poll: Professional Associations You Belong To?
3. Top items from KDnuggets News 06:n19, Oct 10
4. New competition: AGNOSTIC LEARNING vs. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

5. SAS� Model Manager to speed value of predictive analytics
6. Rattle: Open-source GUI for data mining using R

7. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Jan ]

8. Palo Alto, CA: Member Technical Staff - Content Analysis / Data - 976456 at HP Labs
9. Seattle Area, WA: Click Fraud/DM Program Manager at MSN AdCenter
10. Ellicott City, MD: Data Mining / Web Applications Specialist at HEA

11. Chicago, IL: Research Scientist at National Center for Data Mining at UIC
12. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Disease Outbreak Modeling at U. Pitt

13. New Book: Java Data Mining: Strategy, Standard, and Practice
14. R You Ready for Open Source Statistics?
15. Video of "Search, Google, and Life: Sergey Brin" lecture at Berkeley
16. On-line book: Data Mining Desktop Survival Guide, by Graham Williams
17. The $1 Million Netflix Challenge

18. Broad Institute Connectivity Map: New Web tool may speed drug discovery
19. Anderson Analytics Helps Lingerie Boutique "Under-stand" Buyers' Attitudes about Underwear
20. ChoiceStream Recommends a Better Solution for Netflix�s Movie Service
21. HPC Analytics Challenge Finalists
22. $10 Million Investment to Boost InforSense Expansion
23. Managing knowledge for the new economy
24. Strato adds patent-pending spam filter with social graph analysis
25. DemandTec selects Insightful's S-PLUS
26. Fair Isaac Adds Spidering to Model Builder
27. Data checks on drug cheats
28. ClearForest Modeler - Text Analytics for the Business User
29. Barclays Global Investors Deploys Insightful's S-PLUS

30. British AI-2006: Cambridge, UK, Dec 11-13
    EVIC 2006, Latin American Summer School on Computational Intelligence, Chile, Dec 13-15
    ICDM'06: IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining, Dec 18-22, Hong Kong
    

31. New Directions and Challenges of Near-Duplicate Detection, due Oct 31
    

There is no reason a person would want a computer in his home,

Ken Olsen, co-founder and head of then leading U.S. computer company Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) in 1977