KDnuggets^TM News 08:n07, Apr 9, 2008

1. Poll Results: DM Role - more analysts, fewer students
2. New Poll: More Data or Better Algorithm ?
3. Data Mining Haiku
4. KDD Cup 2008 and the Workshop on Mining Medical Data
5. James Taylor on starting in IT and new ideas
6. James Taylor on books and start-up advice
7. Highlights from Analytic Blogs
8. INFORMS Data Mining Contest
9. 2008 Data Mining Competition: Discovering Knowledge in NHANES Data
10. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n06, Mar 25

11. Analytics Outsourcing In India: Fractal Analytics

12. Apr 16 Webcast: on-line demo of GenIQ Model, a machine learning alternative to regression

13. Weehawken, NJ: Senior Database Marketing Associate at Hanover Direct
14. Sunnyvale, CA: SDS Data Mining Researcher-- Scientist at Yahoo !
15. New York, NY: Senior Scientist at Sense Networks
16. New York, NY, USA: Associate Director, Strategy & Analysis at Digitas
17. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Computational Biologist at Dow AgroSciences
18. Austin, TX: Data Mining Developer at Click Forensics

19. Test data for Customer Profiling ?

20. Computer System Consistently Makes Most Accurate NCAA Picks
21. Data Mining the Financial Markets, Part 3
22. Florence Nightingale, Inventor of Pie Chart
23. The Use -- and Misuse -- of Statistics: How and Why Numbers Are So Easily Manipulated

24. Text analytics the key to customer service for hospitality firm
25. CBS and Aggregate Knowledge Offer Discovery and Recommendation for Mobile
26. Networked Insights: A peek at social-media analytics
27. Data Visualization Helps Panoratio Data Mining Users to Instantly Discover Patterns and Relationships
28. The Evolution of Social Networks
29. Major League Baseball Players Association Analyzes Complex Baseball Statistics with IBM Cognos Software
30. Networked Insights allows social data mining
31. Angoss Demonstrates Predictive Analytics Plug-In for Salesforce.com at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit
32. CDC Software Fuels Expansion in China with Investment in One of China's Leading Providers of Business Intelligence Solutions
33. Carnival Cruise Lines bring SAS onboard for marketing automation
34. SAS(r) predictive analytics help Healthways curb healthcare costs

35. Text Analytics surges up the business agenda, Boston, June 16-17
36. Hypertext 2008, June 19-21 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

37. Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, due Apr 20
    Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web, due Apr 28
    Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning, due May 1
    Large-Scale Recommender Systems and the Netflix Prize, due May 30
    KDD 2008 Workshop on Mining Medical Data, due Jul 7
    IEEE VAST 2008 Visual Analytics Challenge, due Jul 11
    MLDM'2009: Machine Learning and Data Mining, due Jan 6, 2009
    
38. IEEE VAST 2008 Visual Analytics Challenge

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