KDnuggets^TM News 06:n24, Dec 19, 2006

1. Poll Results: No rush to upgrade to Vista
2. New Poll: Which data mining related conferences you attended?
3. Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining
4. Highlights from data mining related blogs
5. Java Data Mining (JSR-247) Spec Approved
6. New data site: swivel.com - YouTube for Data?
7. Top items from KDnuggets News 06:n23, Dec 5
8. European Commission Survey on Detection Technologies (Data/Text Mining)

9. Data Mining Courses: Strategy, Methods & Application

10. West Midlands, UK: Senior Fraud Data Mining Analyst at Birmingham Midshires
11. Sunnyvale, CA: Artificial Intelligence / Data Mining Engineer (US Permanent Residency or Citizenship Required) at Analatom
12. Washington, DC area: Datamining Engineer at Snowfish, LLC
13. Seattle, WA: Data Integration Architect at Qpass, Amdocs Digital Commerce Division
14. Atlanta, GA: Sr. Marketing Analyst at EarthLink
15. Atlanta, GA: Manager, Product Analytics at EarthLink
16. Columbia, MD: Data Analytics Specialist at Detica
17. Headquarters Berkeley, CA; contractor can be worldwide: Statistical modeling software developer -- contractor at Mindloom

18. The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches in Analyzing Unstructured Data
19. Geeking Out on Statistics (National Statistics)
20. New Book on Data Mining bundles XLMiner
21. New Book: Data Stream Survey Book
22. Visualization and Holistic Data Mining - among top trends for 2007
23. New Journal: Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Wiley
24. Becoming an Experienced, Invaluable Web Analyst
25. Text Mining Reveals Hidden Value and Competitive Advantages

26. Carnegie Mellon Researchers Uncover Online Auction Fraud
27. Unica updates Web analytics product Affinium NetInsight
28. New Click Fraud Allegations: wide spread of botnets
29. KXEN Extreme Data Mining Wins User and Analyst Praise
30. Peace Corps Deploying SPSS Predictive Analytics for Volunteer Surveys
31. Teradata Unveils New Advanced Analytics for Data Warehousing
32. Google Launches Patent Search Beta
33. Tech lessons learned from the wisdom of crowds
34. New Book Claims: Data Mining Effective for Trading Strategies

35. Data Mining For Business workshop at PAKDD-2007, due Jan 5
    Visual Data Analysis Workshop 2007 at SDM 2007, due Jan 8
    Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering, due Jan 14 - extended deadline
    Special Track on Data Mining STDM-CBMS 2007, due Jan 31
    AIRWEB'07: Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, due Feb 15
    Web Spam Challenge 2007, due Feb 15
    DMIN'07, due Feb 20
    Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning, due Apr 1
    

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