KDnuggets^TM News 07:n12, Jun 19, 2007

1. Poll Results: Data Mining Application Areas
2. New Poll: Preferred tools/anguages for data manipulation
3. Kleinberg: Key insights from 2 KDD Best Papers
4. Kleinberg on Facebook and other social networking sites
5. Kleinberg on current work and start-ups
6. Kleinberg - recent books read
7. Kleinberg: advice to data mining students and young researchers
8. Highlights from Data Mining / Analytic Blogs
9. 2007 Data Mining Innovation and Service Awards: Nominations due June 30, 2007
10. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n11, Jun 5

11. Angoss announces KnowledgeSEEKER� for Salesforce.com
12. Release of BayesiaLab 4.3, the leading Bayesian Network software for Data Mining
13. Mastering Data Mining: A Step-by-Step Approach (NO CHARGE)
14. Does the media influence stock trading volumes?

15. BI and Predictive Analytics courses in July: Atlanta, Centreville, Troy

16. Redwood City, CA: Senior Research Scientist at Adchemy
17. Charlotte, NC, USA: Retail Analytics Manager (COS# 598645) at GE Money
18. San Diego, CA: Presale Consultant at Fair Isaac
19. Toronto, Canada: Data Mining Analyst at Waterfront International

20. Knowledge Builder for Equipment and Systems

21. New Book: Physical Database Design by Lightstone, Teorey and Nadeau
22. New book: CRM Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner
23. What Data Mining Can and Can't Do - Peter Faber
24. Gartner customer data mining Magic Quadrant author discusses best software and buying tips
25. SIGEVOlution Volume 2 Issue 1 - available for download

26. SAS M2007, at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas (Oct 1-2) - Register by June 29 to save
27. ICML-2007 Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Grammar Induction, June 24, Corvallis
    UAI-2007, Vancouver, July 19-22

28. BNP Paribas Brings Semantics to Data with TEMIS Text Analytics
29. Product Review: S-PLUS 8 from Insightful
30. Lawmakers move to halt funds for data-mining plan
31. FBI plans huge anti-terror data-mining
32. KXEN Boosts Revenues & Service, Cuts Costs at Rogers Communications
33. CourseAdvisor Forms Data Mining Group to Increase Enrollments at Postsecondary Schools
34. S-Plus Archive Network for Open Source Launches
35. InforSense Unveils First Enterprise Solution to Offer Workflow-Based Analytics for All Major Databases
36. Marketing Management Analytics (MMA) calls SAS� "gold standard"
37. StatSoft Announces Adoption of STATISTICA by Major Chinese Universities

38. ECML/PKDD Graph Labelling Workshop - Web Spam Challenge, due Jun 30
    ICDM-07 Call for Tutorials, due Jul 13
    Collaborative Knowledge Management for Web Information Systems (WE.KNOW 2007), due Jul 15
    Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2008, due Jul 30
    PAKDD 2008, due Sep 23
    

Psychological Blocks to Trend Changes - and why the young don't have this problem

why people working in an industry for many years can develop psychological blockages that prevent them from seeing trends and why the young don't have this problem

Ram Charan and Clay Shirky, in Swivel Blog, http://blog.swivel.com/weblog/2007/06/the_technicolor.html

Frequent words/terms in this issue:

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