KDnuggets^TM News 08:n04, Feb 27, 2008

1. Should Microsoft buy Yahoo?
2. To which conferences did you submit a paper ?
3. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n03, Feb 6

4. Mar 17 Webinar: Demonstrating the GenIQ Model, by Bruce Ratner

5. Data Mining Course Series for Executives, Managers or Practitioners [ April, Las Vegas | June, Wash-DC ]

6. Redmond, WA: Software Development Engineer (SDE), Datacenter Software Services, Job Code - 217986 at Microsoft
7. Cambridge, MA: Business Intelligence Architect at CIDC: Cambridge Interactive Development Corp.
8. Cambridge, MA: Business Intelligence Developer at CIDC: Cambridge Interactive Development Corp.
9. Cambridge, MA: Data Manager at CIDC: Cambridge Interactive Development Corp.
10. Redmond, WA: Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Live Maps at Microsoft
11. Redmond, WA: Software Development Engineer in Test, Live Search Data Mining Team, Microsoft at Microsoft
12. Redmond, WA: Applied Researcher, Microsoft adCenter Labs at Microsoft
13. Redmond, WA: Research Engineer, Microsoft adCenter Labs at Microsoft
14. Redmond, WA: Data Mining Analyst, Microsoft adCenter Labs at Microsoft
15. Richmond, VA or McLean, VA: Senior Director of Statistical Analysis at Capital One
16. Omaha, NE: Data Mining Analyst and Edit Analyst at West Asset Management
17. Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, UK: Computer Scientist at Unilever
18. Painsville, OH: Quantitative Analyst at Hudson and Keyse, LLC

19. PhD Position in Machine Learning for Metagenomics Data Analysis

20. Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner Website
21. Einstein: A Clever, Self-taught Statistician
22. Text Technologies in the Legal World
23. Web tool predicts election results and stock prices
24. Neural Networks' Role in Predictive Analytics
25. TR10: Reality Mining
26. Announcing a New Data Mining and Business Intelligence e-Newsletter

27. Boots remedies till fraud with data mining
28. Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged
29. Market maturity and Microsoft lead Gartner's latest business intelligence report
30. Business Objects' Stealthy XI 3.0 Announcement
31. Thomson Scientific Announces Strategic Alliance With Collexis to Develop Custom Data Mining Solution for Web of Science Users
32. Lincoln Financial Distributors Builds Data-Driven Strategies with SPSS Predictive Analytics

33. SDM'08, Atlanta, GA, USA, April 24-26, 2008
    PAKDD 2008, Osaka, Japan, May 20-23
    Summer School NN2008 on Neural Networks, Porto, Portugal, Jul 7-11

34. special session on Data Mining for Time Series Data at DMIN'08, due Mar 15
    ECML PKDD 2008, due Mar 31 (Tutorial and Workshop Proposals)
    PAN-08 - Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, due Apr 10
    ECAI'08 Workshop on Mining Social Data (MSoDa'08), due May 3
    Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population (OLP3) at ECAI'08, due May 3
    Workshops at 8th Industrial Conf. on Data Mining, Leipzig-ICDM'08, due May 5
    Semantic Web Conference 2008, due May 16
    Business Process Intelligence workshop, due May 23
    Data Analytics for Decision Support, due July 31
    
35. TKDD Spec. Issue on Knowledge Discovery for Web Intelligence, due Sep 1

Einstein was an "average" data analyst, with tendency to make trivial arithmetic mistakes and some clumsiness in data recording.

From Iglewicz, B., (2007) "Einstein's First Published Paper," The American Statistician, Vol. 61, No. 4, 339-342. - thanks to Bruce Ratner

Frequent words/terms in this issue:

analysis analytics area bi business cidc data data+mining design development discovery experience help information intelligence knowledge microsoft mining model position preferred problem process required research science search service skill software statistical system team technology user web work

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