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• Greg Linden on Excellent data mining lecture notes

  the Stanford CS Data Mining class being taught by Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman. The talk on recommender systems (PDF) was particularly interesting, with a thorough and insightful look at different techniques (e.g. collaborative filtering, item-to-item, content-based, clustering) for personalization and recommendations.

• Greg Linden on Andrei Broder talk on information supply

  Yahoo VP and Research Fellow Andrei Broder is giving an IEEE talk, "The next generation Web Search: From Information Retrieval to Information Supply" on Nov 16 at Stanford University.

  ... The goal of Web IR will widen to include the supply of relevant information from multiple sources without requiring the user to make an explicit query.

• James Taylor (FairIsaac) has a cool Slideshare presentation on Challenges and opportunities in customer-led services

• Juice Analytics on Godin, Tufte and Types of Infographics.

• Matthew Hurst on Farecast: RSS Airfares. Farecast is engaging bloggers with a new feature called Fare Guard which allows you to push-pin fares to keep the price for a week

• Abbott Analytics on Free And Inexpensive Data Mining Software.