KDnuggets^TM News 07:n02, Jan 23, 2007

1. KDD Cup and Workshop 2007 based on Netflix data - first announcement
2. Poll Results: The typical number of data mining projects per year
3. New Poll: Data Miners Income and Region
4. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n01, Jan 9

5. SPSS Advances Data Mining Software with Clementine 11.0
6. ADMEWORKS ModelBuilder 3.0 - QSAR & QSPR analysis software

7. Data Mining Training by Salford Systems: Hands-On, Online, Demonstrations, Free Webinars, Case Studies
8. Free Webcast, Jan 26: Intro To Data Mining For Absolute Beginners (vendor-neutral)
9. Data Mining Courses: Strategy, Methods & Application: Jan 29 - Feb 2, Orlando
10. Jan 30 Webcast: Robust predictive modeling through SRM, by Dr. Isabelle Guyon
11. Statistical Learning and Data Mining II: tools for tall and wide data, Mar 8-9, Palo Alto

12. New York, NY: Director of Analytics Products at Crossix Solutions
13. Bellevue, WA: Analyst, Customer Marketing at T-Mobile
14. Chicago, IL 60661: Tech Architects/Sr. Software Engineers/Software Engineers at Dieselpoint, Inc.
15. San Diego, CA: Analytic Software Scientist I (req 2419) at Fair Isaac Corp.
16. San Diego, CA: Analytic Science Scientist I (req 2430) at Fair Isaac Corp.
17. Westminster, CO: Analytic Science Scientist II (req 2575) at Fair Isaac Corp.
18. Seattle, WA: Senior Data Analyst at NetRatings
19. Milpitas, CA: Senior Manager, Data Analytics at NetRatings
20. San Rafael, CA: Analytic Science Senior Manager (req 2474) at Fair Isaac Corp.
21. San Rafael, CA: Analytic Science Consultants (req 2475) at Fair Isaac Corp.
22. San Antonio, TX: Manager, Decision Science at BSG Payments, LLC
23. Pittsburgh, PA: Informatics Programmer-Analyst-Data Manager at Precision Therapeutics, Inc.
24. Pittsburgh, PA: (Senior) Scientist; Bioinformatics - Machine Learning - Statistics - Algorithm Development at Precision Therapeutics, Inc.
25. Austin, TX: Senior Manager - Small Business Contact Strategy at Dell Inc.

26. Northwestern: Postdoc in Comp. Linguistics, Language and Political Behavior

27. Looking for Experts to answer a short survey: Why is data mining used too little in business?

28. Promoting Security and Civil Liberties: The Role of Data Mining in Combating Terrorism
29. The inaugural issue of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
30. Fair Isaac - defining the top end of the data mining market
31. Probabilistic Versus Deterministic Data Matching: Making an Accurate Decision

32. InforSense� Launches GenSense - Statistical Genetics Solution
33. Dartmouth PQS: Finding patterns of importance in a deluge of data
34. Washington Post: Daylight Sought For Data Mining
35. Federal data-mining programs under fire
36. US Census Bureau Statistical Abstract 2007
37. Anti-terrorism program mines IRS' records
38. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - web-scale computing
39. New embeddable rules engine supporting a wide range of visual rules formats

40. UK KDD Symposium, Kent, UK, 25 Apr
    Mining Massive Data Sets for Security, Gazzada, Italy, 10-21 Sep
    

41. Call For Demonstrations For KDD-2007 - due Feb 28, 2007
42. Workshop and Challenge on Time Series Classification at SIGKDD 2007
43. Data Mining for Biomedical Informatics workshop, due Feb 2
    Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, due Feb 7
    UAI 2007, due Feb 28
    Data Mining for Health Informatics, due Mar 30
    Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology, due Apr 9
    Mining and Learning on Graphs (MLG'07), due May 10
    Mining Massive Data Sets for Security, due May 15 (application for participation due)
    

Federal agencies are "bewitched" by the possibility of data mining programs

Leslie Harris, executive director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, at the US Senate hearings, Jan 11, 2007.