KDnuggets^TM News 07:n14, Jul 23, 2007

1. Poll results: EU, Australia have longest vacations
2. New Poll: Types of Data Analyzed/Mined in the past 12 months
3. KDD Cup 2008: Call for Proposals
4. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n13, July 11

5. Webcasts Jul 24/Aug 9/Sep 7: Intro to Data Mining for Absolute Beginners (no charge)
6. Jul 26 Webcast: Exploring the Power of Links in Data Mining, by Jiawei Han
7. Aug 1 Webcast: Learning Bayesian Networks, by Richard Neapolitan
8. Aug 7 Webcast: Robust predictive modeling through SRM, by Isabelle Guyon

9. Data Mining Course Series: Strategy, Methods & Application [ Sept, San Diego | Dec, Las Vegas ]

10. New York, NY: Senior Database Analyst at Wunderman
11. Bangalore, India: Senior Data Miner at Cisco
12. Yonkers, NY (Right outside NYC): Senior Biostatistician / Machine Learning Scientist / Bioinformatician at Aureon Laboratories, Inc.
13. Tampa, FL: Data Miner at Citigroup
14. St. Petersburg, FL: Sr. Manager Consumer Insights at HSN
15. St. Petersburg, FL: Sr. Specialist - CRM at HSN

16. New book: Kononenko and Kukar, Machine Learning and Data Mining: Introduction to Principles and Algorithms
17. Data Mining as a Service: The Prediction is Not in the Box
18. New Book: Data Mining VIII: Data, Text and Web Mining and Their Business Application
19. Heckerman interview on machine learning, Microsoft, HIV research, and more
20. Eric Enge interviews Google's Udi Manber about Search Quality

21. Collexis� first day on market a good one
22. Oracle's Smaller Slice of CRM's Bigger Pie
23. FBI data mining programs target more than just terrorists, DOJ says
24. FBI Data Mining for More than Terror
25. Linguamatics I2E: Delivering Intelligence From Text With Real-Time, Agile Nlp

26. The top 5 reasons not to miss M2007, the world's largest data mining conference, October 1-2

27. WSDM-08, due Jul 30
    K-CAP'2007: Knowledge Management and Semantic Web for Engineering Design, due Jul 31 (extended)
    KDD Cup 2008 Call for Proposals, due Oct 30
    

Black Swan effect:

A black swan is an outlier, an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations. Most people expect all swans to be white because that's what their experience tells them; a black swan is by definition a surprise.

Our minds are designed to retain, for efficient storage, past information that fits into a compressed narrative. This distortion, called the hindsight bias, prevents us from adequately learning from the past.

from LEARNING TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED, By Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb04/taleb_indexx.html

Frequent words/terms in this issue:

algorithm analysis application book business conference consumer crm data data+mining database experience information kdd knowledge learning machine management market marketing mining modeling network predictive research sas skills software support system text web

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