KDnuggets^TM News 08:n15, Aug 7, 2008

1. Poll Results: Use of PMML for deploying data mining models
2. New Poll: Attending a conference vs. watching recorded talks?
3. ACM SIGKDD 2008 Innovation Award to Raghu Ramakrishnan
4. SIGKDD to Honor Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations
5. 2008 IEEE ICDM Research Contributions and Outstanding Service Awards, nominations due Aug 15
6. Top items from KDnuggets News 08:n14, Jul 23

7. Portrait Software Announces the Release of Uplift Optimizer 5.3

8. Aug 13 Webcast: For Regression Modelers & Data Miners: The Unequaled, Unsuspected GenIQ Model
9. Salford Systems' Data Mining Training, September, October, December, 2008

10. Statistics.com Courses, September - December
11. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Sep 15-16, Charlottesville, VA
12. Data Mining Course Series: Strategy, Methods & Application [ Sept, San Diego | Dec, Las Vegas ]

13. Redmond, WA: Applied Researcher, 234067 at Microsoft
14. Hoffman Estates, IL, USA: Technical Manager - Business Analytics at Sears
15. Washington, DC: Resources Analyst at World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
16. Seattle, WA: Senior Statistician / Data Mining Analyst at Varolii

17. Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon
18. How to Make the Best Credit Score Even Better
19. New Book: Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Models And Algorithms

20. Microsoft to buy Israeli data quality startup Zoomix
21. Using Modern Tools to Learn About Ancient People
22. Clarifications sought on data mining
23. City University of Hong Kong uses data mining for pharmacological research
24. Miner3D(R) data mining power in a top-class ADMET software

25. Data Analytics for Decision Support spec. issue, due Aug 15
    PAKDD-09, due Sep 9
    

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