KDnuggets^TM News 07:n22, Nov 20, 2007

1. Poll Results: Netflix Grand Prize - When?
2. New Poll: How many data miners in your company / organization?
3. Netflix 2007 Progress Prize goes to team KorBell (aka BellKor)
4. Interview with Ronny Kohavi
5. Ronny Kohavi on interesting challenges at Microsoft
6. Kohavi on Stanford period
7. GiveALink: Socially Induced Web Navigation Survey
8. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n21, Nov 6

9. KEEL - new data mining software

10. Dec 4 Webcast: Profiting from Prediction: Using Analytics to Drive Effective Marketing

11. Data Mining Course Series for Executives, Managers or Practitioners [ Dec, Las Vegas | Jan, Orlando ]

12. New York, NY or Bethlehem, PA: Senior Executive - Data Analytics at global telephony/information services provider
13. Hong Kong: Regional Manager - Data Mining and Business Intelligence (Ref. No.: A1103-KD) at American International Assurance Company, Limited
14. Boston, NY, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, or Atlanta: Manager - Analytics at Digitas
15. Minnetonka, MN: VP Analytics at United Health Group
16. St. Petersburg, FL: Sr. Manager, CRM Predictive Analytics at HSN
17. Highland Hills, OH: Senior Customer and Market Analyst at National City Corporation
18. Seattle, WA (Downtown, Pioneer Square): Development Lead - Machine Learning/AI group, Smart Desktop at Smart Desktop Division, Pi Corporation

19. Information Visualization Position (Danube University, Krems, Austria)

20. Interpreting Neural Network Results

21. New Book: Computational Methods of Feature Selection
22. The Modeling Agency Removes Complexity from Data
23. Data Mining the Financial Markets, Part 1
24. ICDM-2007 in Omaha press: Data diggers bring meeting to Omaha
25. Bjarne Stroustrup on Innovation

26. IBM and SPSS Team to Provide Customers Predictive Analytics Capabilities
27. Machine learning fuels Sun music recommendation technology
28. Motley Fool Book Review: "Super Crunchers"
29. Web Analytics: Convergence Continues
30. Microsoft Launches Beta of Free Web Analytics Tool
31. Aggregate Knowledge Piques Consumer Demand for Discovery
32. ThotWave Technologies Provides Software to The Container Store
33. IBM plans to acquire Cognos
34. Retail Business Solutions Selects SeeWhy for Real Time Fraud Service Offering
35. InforSense: IBM Cognos Deal will lead to renewed BI innovation
36. Yahoo! Unleashes Teraflops of Processing Power for Research
37. What Will Journalist-Programmers Do?

38. WSDM'2008 - Call for Participation and Early Registration

39. Knowledge Discovery and Management in Engineering, due Dec 1
    TWEB Special issue on Query Log Analysis, due Dec 17
    Post-Mining of Association Rules: Effective Knowledge Extraction, due Dec 31
    Computational Swarm Intelligence at AISB, due Jan 14
    Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, due Jan 31
    Machine Learning in Space, due Mar 31
    PRICAI 2008, due 26 May 2008
    

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Thanks to Greg James

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Most viewed of all items * 9. KEEL - new data mining software * 5. Ronny Kohavi on interesting challenges at Microsoft * 3. Netflix 2007 Progress Prize goes to team KorBell (aka BellKor) * 4. Interview with Ronny Kohavi * 1. Poll Results: Netflix Grand Prize - When? * 6. Kohavi on Stanford period * 20. Interpreting Neural Network Results * 21. New Book: Computational Methods of Feature Selection * 23. Data Mining the Financial Markets, Part 1 * 39. CFP - calls for papers Most viewed Jobs: * 13. Hong Kong: Regional Manager - Data Mining and Business Intelligence * 12. New York, NY or Bethlehem, PA: Senior Executive - Data Analytics * 18. Seattle, WA: Development Lead - Machine Learning * 14. Boston, NY, Chicago, ...: Manager - Analytics at Digitas Most viewed Publications: * 21. New Book: Computational Methods of Feature Selection * 23. Data Mining the Financial Markets, Part 1 * 25. Bjarne Stroustrup on Innovation Most viewed Briefs: * 30. Microsoft Launches Beta of Free Web Analytics Tool * 28. Motley Fool Book Review: "Super Crunchers" * 26. IBM and SPSS Team to Provide Customers Predictive Analytics * 36. Yahoo! Unleashes Teraflops of Processing Power for Research * 27. Machine learning fuels Sun music recommendation technology * 29. Web Analytics: Convergence Continues