KDnuggets^TM News 07:n01, Jan 9, 2007

1. Top News Items from 2006
2. Poll Results: Data Mining Conferences attended in 2006
3. New Poll: Number of data mining projects you worked on in 2006
4. KDD-2007 Call For Research Papers (Abstracts due: Feb 23)
5. Text mining and analytic domain names for sale
6. Edge annual question 2007: What Are You Optimistic About? Why?
7. Top items from KDnuggets News 06:n24, Dec 19
8. Tiberius wins BI CUP 2006 time series forecasting competition

9. Software release: ABL 1.0: Alignment-Based Learning 1.0

10. Data Mining Courses: Strategy, Methods & Application, Jan 29 - Feb 2, Orlando
11. Online course: "Decision Trees and Rule-Based Segmentation", Jan 26 - Feb 23
12. New Exploratory Analysis course
13. Jan 30 Webcast: Robust predictive modeling through SRM, by Dr. Isabelle Guyon
14. Data Miners team with SAS to deliver training (Survival Analysis, Data Mining Techniques)
15. Predictive Analytics for Business and Marketing, Prediction Impact, Feb and May, San Francisco

16. Seattle Metropolitan area, WA: Click Fraud/Data Mining Program Manager at Microsoft, MSN AdCenter
17. Seattle Metropolitan area, WA: Database Engineer at MSN
18. Seattle Metropolitan area, WA: Senior Database Engineer at MSN
19. Seattle Metropolitan area, WA: Lead Software Development Engineer (Click Fraud Detection) -- Data Architecture group at Microsoft, MSN AdCenter
20. Seattle Metropolitan area, WA: Data Mining Analyst at Microsoft, MSN AdCenter
21. Seattle Metropolitan area, WA: Software Design Engineer - Creative UI Developer (168140) at Microsoft, MSN AdCenter
22. Seattle Metropolitan area, WA: Software Design Engineer - Database Developer (168128) at Microsoft, MSN AdCenter
23. Wenham, MA: Senior Statistical Analyst at Mullen Advertising
24. Austin, TX: Data Mining Scientist at Apple Computer
25. Seattle Metropolitan area, WA: Research (DM/IR/ML) Software Design Engineer (RSDE) Lead at Microsoft, MSN AdCenter
26. Arlington, VA or San Diego, CA: Senior Statistician at Claritas
27. Boxborough, MA: Technical Leader I (Expert in Data Mining) at Cisco
28. Redmond, WA: Marketing Intelligence Manager at Microsoft Corporation, Online Services Group
29. Research Analyst at BEZ Systems, Skokie, IL or Boston, MA
30. Palo Alto, CA: Data Analyst, Data Insight Group at Facebook

31. 1 Research Assistant and 2 PhD Studentships at Queen Mary U. of London

32. The Man Who Shook Up Vegas (Dr. Stoll and Football Handicapping)
33. published: JMLR special topic on ML for Computer Security
34. New book: Decision Trees for BI and Data Mining: Using SAS Enterprise Miner

35. Precision Data-Mining and Modern Football Handicapping
36. Lawsuit Demands Answers About Government's Secret 'Risk Assessment' Scores
37. Bayer Extends License To Linguamatics And Biowisdom For Text Search And Mining
38. Grad Student Scores Federal Grant for Click Fraud Research
39. Yahoo! Chief Data Officer, Dr. Usama Fayyad, Chosen as 2006 ACM Fellow
40. Watch & learn - from cameras to suspicious behavior recognition

41. Data Mining for Personalization, due Jan 15
    IJCNN07 Workshop on Data Representation Discovery, due Jan 31
    Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological Challenges, due Feb 12
    KDD-07 research papers, abstracts due Feb 23
    KDD-07 application papers, abstracts due Feb 23
    KDD-07 workshop proposals, due Feb 28
    KDD-07 tutorial proposals, due Feb 28
    KDD-07 panel proposals, due Feb 28
    Text Mining in Bioinformatics, due Apr 1
    Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR-07), due Apr 12

Edge annual question 2007:

WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? WHY?

As an activity, as a state of mind, science is fundamentally optimistic. Science figures out how things work and thus can make them work better. Much of the news is either good news or news that can be made good, thanks to ever deepening knowledge and ever more efficient and powerful tools and techniques. Science, on its frontiers, poses more and ever better questions, ever better put.

What are you optimistic about? Why? Surprise us!

see http://edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html