KDnuggets^TM News 09:n16, Aug 27, 2009

1. Poll Results: KXEN most likely to be acquired next
2. New Poll: Types of Data Analyzed/Mined
3. DecisionStats (Ajay Ohri) Interview of Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
4. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n15, Aug 12
5. Netflix Prize: It Ain't Over til It's Over

6. SupplierEvaluations: B2B community for Supply Chain Management

7. Sep 9 Webinar: Targeted Business Analytics: How Large Companies Leverage SaaS BI

8. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ October, Wash-DC ]
9. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Sep 14-15, Charlottesville, VA

10. New York, NY: Director, Data Strategy & Analytics at Simulmedia
11. Sunnyvale, CA: Statistics Engineer at Efficient Frontier
12. Omaha, NE: analytics and modeling professional at West Asset Management
13. Melville, New York: Director of Decision Science at First Data
14. Needham, MA: Statistician at Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL)
15. San Jose, CA: Principal Data Mining Engineer at eBay
16. San Jose, CA: Principal Engineer / Applied Scientist at eBay
17. Santa Monica, CA: Senior Data Mining Specialist at Activision
18. Redmond, WA: Software Development Engineer in Test II, Bing, at Microsoft
19. Redmond, WA: Senior Test Lead, Bing at Microsoft
20. Redmond, WA: Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Bing at Microsoft
21. Redmond, WA: Lead Software Development Engineer in Test, Bing at Microsoft
22. Bentonville, AR: Senior Manager, Data Integration & Management -- Member Insight & Innovation at Sam's Club/Wal-Mart

23. Funded PhD Studentship at the Clique Research Cluster, NUI Galway, Ireland
24. Text mining positions at JULIE Lab (Germany)

25. Predictive Analytics World DC Launches Dedicated Tracks for Business Experts and Analytics Practitioners

26. New book on Multidimensional Visualization with chapter on Data Mining
27. Breiman�s Quiet Scandal: Stepwise Logistic Regression and RELR
28. Variable Selection Methods in Regression:
29. The Drunkard's BI - Part II
30. Data Mining Misconceptions #1: The 50/50 Problem
31. ETH Zurich ODBMS Lecture Series
32. Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts

33. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants Another ID Analytics Patent
34. Pets at Home uses data mining to bolster loss prevention
35. Twilight time for Yahoo search
36. BI Industry Consolodation
37. IBM sees analytics growth rise, starting next year
38. SAP and TIBCO? Too Juicy Of A BI Rumor Not To Comment On
39. SPADAC Launches Enhanced Version of Predictive Analytics Tool
40. FICO Leads Analytics Applications Sector
41. IBM's SPSS Deal May Spark BI Market Consolidation
42. Zementis and Nuevora Ink Strategic Alliance
43. IDC Ranks Vendors In Growing Business Analytics Market
44. SPSS Unveils Predictive Analytics For Marketers

45. Mining Social Media, due Sep 6
    SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM10), due Oct 9
    Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), due Oct 21
    Machine Learning in Space, due Nov 15
    
46. CFP: International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB)

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20 years ago.

When is the next best time to plant a tree?
Today!

Chinese Proverb (thanks to Valdis Kreps, http://www.thenetworkthinker.com/)

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