KDnuggets^TM News 08:n13, July 9, 2008

1. Poll Results: Machine Learning can be trusted conditionally
2. New Poll: Effect of the US recession on the Demand for Data Mining
3. Harvard study disputes the Long Tail Assumption
4. KDD-08 Call for Participation: Early Reg by July 20
5. Highlights from Data Mining and Analytic Blogs
6. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n12, Jun 24

7. Webcast July 16: For Regression Modelers & Data Miners: Online Demo of the GenIQ Model�

8. Combine SAS Training with Real-life business cases for instant on the job impact

9. Chicago, IL: Manager, Digital Media Analytics at Digitas
10. St Petersburg, FL, USA: Manager-Customer Analytics at HSN
11. Cary, NC: Research Statistician - Data Mining Applications Development-08002151 at SAS Institute, Inc.
12. Redmond, WA: Business Process Analyst/Decision Scientist, #232154 at Microsoft

13. Danube U., Krems, Austria: Postgraduate program: Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis

14. "What do you do" - how do you reply at a party?

15. New Book: Constrained Clustering: Advances in Algorithms, Theory, and Applications
16. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Mining: SAS and SPSS lead
17. An interview with Sergei Ananyan, President of Megaputer
18. Overfitting: Old Problem, New Solution

19. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
20. Predicting the Vote: Pollsters Identify Tiny Voting Blocs
21. Gartner: Business intelligence software market grew 13% in 2007
22. KXEN Intros New Version of Data Mining Automation Solution
23. Portrait Software's Uplift Solution Drives Winning Data Mining Award Submission
24. Expert System Helps "Autostrade per l'Italia" Sort, Classify and Streamline Email Traffic
25. SeeWhy Announces Version 3.4 to Drive Online 1-to-1 Marketing
26. IDC Study: Digital Universe in 2007 was 281 exabytes, growing 60%/year
27. Microsoft to acquire Powerset
28. SAS grows fastest of top five BI vendors; leads in advanced analytics market share
29. Anderson Analytics Announces Text Mining Methodology, AA-Text(SM)
30. SAS visualization drives analytic insights to midmarket and beyond

31. PIKM 2008: Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management, due Jul 5
    ICDM '08: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, due Jul 7
    Visual Analytics Challenge, due Jul 11
    Video Mining 2008, ICDM-08 workshop, due Aug 1
    The 2nd Int. Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM 2008), due Aug 1
    AusDM, due Aug 1
    IEEE Int. Workshop on Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence (DMAI 2008), due Aug 15
    ACM SAC Special Track on Data Mining, due Aug 16
    Visual Analytics Evaluation spec. issue, due Sep 12
    SDM'09: Siam Conference On Data Mining, due Oct 3
    Industrial, Engineering Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, due Nov 8
    Text Mining and Information Retrieval spec. issue, due Jan 15
    

The breakthroughs have to do with natural user interface, data mining.

Bill Gates, in an interview on occasion of his retirement from Microsoft.

http://news.cnet.com/Gates-big-send-off/2009-1014_3-6242276-2.html

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