KDnuggets^TM News 09:n07, Apr 14, 2009

1. 2009 Data Mining Salary / Income Survey results
2. New Poll: SIGKDD Election candidates
3. SAS offering 50% discount on SAS training to unemployed professionals
4. Text analytics New and Noteworthy -- April
5. Interview with Seth Grimes: part 1, Text Analytics
6. Interview with Seth Grimes, part 2: Text Analytics Future
7. Interview with Seth Grimes, part 3: Beyond Text Analytics
8. Short Survey on Text Analytics -- Your Views Needed
9. Most viewed courses on KDnuggets
10. Most viewed KDnuggets Polls
11. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n06, Mar 31

12. SIGKDD 2009 Election - time for a change in leadership
13. Elect Usama Fayyad as SIGKDD Chair
14. Elect Bing Liu as SIGKDD Chair
15. Elect Osmar Zaiane as SIGKDD Treasurer
16. Elect Ismail Parsa as SIGKDD Treasurer
17. Elect Johannes Gehrke as SIGKDD Director
18. Re-elect Robert Grossman as SIGKDD Director
19. Re-elect David Jensen as SIGKDD Director
20. Re-elect Raghu Ramakrishnan as SIGKDD Director
21. Elect Ramakrishnan Srikant as SIGKDD Director
22. Re-elect Sunita Sarawagi as SIGKDD Director
23. Elect Geoff Webb as SIGKDD Director

24. LatentView Offers Free Downloads of SAS-2-pmml(TM) Tool for Developer Community
25. SAS� Data Mining Information Kit - Analyst report, white paper & more
26. SPSS Renames data mining and other software; releases new versions

27. Data Mining: Failure to Launch [ Free Webinar ]
28. Social Network Analysis can Boost your Marketing Performance!

29. KXEN training in Chicago, May 13-15

30. Stamford, CT: System Developer at LYZ Capital Advisors LLC
31. San Jose, CA: Sr. Applied Statistician at eBay
32. San Jose, CA: Senior Research Scientist, Data Mining (req 31939BR) at eBay
33. Stamford, CT: Quantitative Investment Analyst at LYZ Capital Advisors LLC

34. PhD Studentship in Machine Learning at U. Geneva, Switzerland

35. fuzzy association rule mining?

36. Post-Mining of Association Rules: Techniques for Effective Knowledge Extraction
37. Variable Selection Methods in Regression: Do they produce bad models?
38. The Data Mining Renaissance
39. Ajay Ohri Interviews Fran�oise Soulie Fogelman, KXEN
40. If Only I Knew ... , by Tim Graettinger
41. Move over, Newton: Computer derives natural laws from raw data
42. First Look - SPSS Predictive Analytic Software 13

43. Music Choice Tunes into SAS(R) Business Analytics
44. TSA'S Secure Flight Program Using Infoglide's Identity Resolution and Entity Analytics Software for Airline Watch List Matching
45. Data mining and math tricks might catch a Madoff or an Enron earlier
46. Actuaries Should Explore Alternative Approaches To Data Mining As Part Of Predictive Modeling Process
47. With Hadoop, Amazon Adds A Web-Scale Data Processing Engine To Its Cloud Computer
48. Benchmark Brands' FootSmart Catalog Implements Clario Analytics
49. Artificial Intelligence to tackle rogue traders
50. iGATE Ranked No. 1 in Data Warehousing, Data Mining and BI in Outsourcing User Survey

51. Proliferation of Digital Information and Recent Uses in Statistical Applications
    Advances in Machine Learning for Computational Finance, 20-21 July, London

52. Financial Data Mining 2009, due Apr 20
    ADKDD'09, due May 1
    Data Mining Case Studies and Practice Prize, due May 2
    RecSys'09, due May 8
    RecSys'09, due May 15 (workshop proposals)
    Metaheuristics for Large Scale Data Mining, due May 31
    IEEE ICDM'09, due Jun 26
    
53. SIGKDD 2009: Call for Demos - proposals due Apr 17, 2009

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital

Aaron Levenstein (thanks to Avinash Kaushik)

Most viewed overall * 2009 Data Mining Salary Survey * Seth Grimes Interview, part 1 * Seth Grimes Interview, part 2 * Text analytics for April * SPSS Renames software * Seth Grimes Interview, part 3 * PhD pos. in ML at U. Geneva * The Data Mining Renaissance * CFP - calls for papers * Var. Selection Methods in Regression Most viewed Software: * SPSS Renames software * LatentView SAS-2-pmml download Most viewed Jobs: * San Jose, CA: Senior Research Scientist, Data Mining * Stamford, CT: Quantitative Investment Analyst at LYZ Most viewed Webcasts: * Social Network Analysis Most viewed Publications: * The Data Mining Renaissance * Var. Selection Methods in Regression * If Only I Knew ... , by Tim Graettinger * Post-Mining of Association Rules Most viewed Briefs: * 45. Data mining and math tricks might catch a Madoff * 46. Actuaries Alternative Approaches To Data Mining * 49. Artificial Intelligence to tackle rogue traders * 47. With Hadoop, Amazon Adds A Web-Scale Data Processing Engine