KDnuggets^TM News 09:n02, Jan 20, 2009

1. Poll Results: Data Mining most submitted journals / magazines
2. Are you planning to attend KDD-09, June 28 - July 1, Paris, France ?
3. Analytics surpassing Data Mining ?
4. Highlights from Data Mining, Analytics Blogs
5. 2009 SIGKDD Dissertation Awards - nominations due Feb 23
6. KDD-09 abstracts due Feb 2, papers Feb 6, Panels/Tutorials Feb 23
7. Attend Predictive Analytics World, San Francisco, Feb 18-19
8. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n01, Jan 6
9. The Digging into Data Challenge, by NSF and other agencies
10. SDM 2009 Student Travel Fellowships and Doctoral Student Forum Fellowships

11. KnowledgeMate and socialFeed released

12. Webinar, Jan 21: Predictive Analytics: Optimizing Business and Reducing Costs Across Verticals
13. GenIQ webcast for Statistical Modelers and Data Miners - no charge!

14. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ Feb, Orlando | April, Las Vegas ]
15. Short course: Ten Hot Ideas for Learning from Data
16. Data mining / analytical CRM program: Master of Marketing Analysis at U. Gent

17. Boston, MA: Manager, Distribution Strategy at Liberty Mutual
18. Palo Alto, CA: Senior Software Engineer - Search Analytics at A9.com, Inc.
19. San Antonio, TX: Marketing Analyst (code 6437) at USAA
20. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Research Position, Financial Data at Boronia Capital Pty Ltd
21. San Jose, CA: Research Programmer- Data-Centric at The PwC Center for Advanced Research (CAR)
22. Maryland / New Jersey: Quantitative Marketing Solutions Director & Manager at pharmaceutical company
23. Fremont, CA: Statistical Programmer (groundbreaking online advertising startup) at Offerpal Media
24. St. Petersburg, FL: Sr. Marketing Manager - Consumer Insights at HSN

25. Ithaca, NY: Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Social Statistics at Cornell

26. Use of Unsupervised models for fraud detection

27. mayato Study: Data Mining Software 2009: Successful Analyses at Affordable Prices (November 2008)
28. In a Surging Analytic Market, Will Demand Outpace Supply?
29. Why Video Testing offers insights which can help web site data mining
30. Time for Analytics to Come in From the Cold
31. Educational Data Mining - what have we learned?
32. Five useful places to find financial data online
33. Predictive Analytics Delivers Value Across Business Applications
34. Data Analysts Captivated by R�s Power
35. What Political Polling Tells Us About Business Intelligence
36. Web Analytics Association Releases 2009 Outlook Survey Data

37. Kroger uses loyalty data to target coupons
38. Top Marks for KXEN in Data Mining Software 2009 Tests
39. Experts forecast business intelligence market trends for 2009
40. NSF looking for wicked cool visual and data analysis algorithms
41. Nasdaq Market Pathfinders: predicting the stock market?
42. InforSense: Founder/CEO Steps Down for CTO Role; $5M Funding After Record Growth
43. Simba Technologies Launches Linux-based MDX SDK for Building XMLA Data Connectivity to Multi-dimensional Data Sources
44. LinkedIn Surpassing Facebook for Enterprise Use-Cases

45. MLDM 2009, due Jan 27
    IADIS European Conference On Data Mining 2009, due Jan 30
    KDD-09 Research papers, due Feb 2 (abstracts)
    Hypertext 2009, due Feb 2
    KDD-09 Industry/Government track papers, due Feb 6
    ICML-2009, due Feb 6 (tutorial proposals)
    DMIN�09, due Feb 7 (Special Sessions & Workshops)
    Data Mining and Cognitive Informatics at ICCI 2009, due Feb 9
    Leipzig ICDM 2009, due Feb 10
    KDD-09 Panels / Tutorials, due Feb 23
    DMIN'09, due Feb 25
    Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommender Systems, due Mar 6
    Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web, due Mar 7
    ISMIS'09, due Mar 15
    Unsupervised and Minimally Supervised Learning of Lexical Semantics, due Mar 15
    IDA 2009, due Mar 30
    Text-Based Information Retrieval, due Apr 1
    ADMA 2009, due Apr 13
    Plagiarism and Authorship Analysis, due Apr 30
    The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'09), due Jun 15
    

You could have a million Ph.D.s working on it - people who are very smart - but if they don�t understand the landscape of American politics, or what a baseball player�s career looks like, they won�t get it right. There�s an art to it, as well as a science.

Nate Silver

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