KDnuggets^TM News 09:n18, Sep 23, 2009

1. BellKor Pragmatic Chaos wins Netflix prize by a few minutes
2. Poll Results: Support for Universal Health Care
3. New poll: Facebook data mining and privacy
4. ICDM 2009 Data Mining Contest - PBC Brain Connectivity Challenge
5. Videos of KDD-09 Talks, Lectures, more available
6. ACM KDD 2010: Call for Papers - Research Track
7. ACM KDD 2010: Call for Papers - Industry/Government Track
8. Analytic / Data mining blog highlights
9. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n17, Sep 9
10. Web Mining on P2TagTeam Data

11. Get your free trial of FICO Xpress 7 Optimization Suite
12. Beyond Search-and-Retrieval: Enterprise Text Mining with SAS
13. MySpace announces plans to open source Qizmt

15. Automated evaluation and collaborative benchmarking of data mining algorithms at TunedIT

16. Oct 28: Data Mining: Failure to Launch [ Free Webinar]

17. October courses on statistics and data mining - discount for KDnuggets readers
18. Bayesian Belief Networks training in New York City, Nov 10-12

19. Cambridge, MA, USA: Visiting Member Technical Staff - Planning and Scheduling Under Uncertainty at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
20. Seattle, WA: Information Retrieval/Data Mining Software Engineer at Amazon
21. New York, NY: Director, Analytics at Gilt
22. Palo Alto, California: Senior Software Engineer - Search Analytics at A9.com, Inc.

23. PhD Position in Music Mining, Finland
24. Postdoc Research Associate in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery at UC Davis, California
25. PostDoc Announcement L3S Research Center, Germany

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

27. KDD ML classifier animation

28. Project Gaydar: Facebook data mining
29. Casual Rocket Scientists: An Interview with a co-winner of Netflix Prize
30. Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom?
31. New IBM Study Highlights Analytics as Top Priority for Today's CIO
32. SIGEVOlution Volume 3 Issue 4
33. Book Review: Beautiful Data

34. Can Google Predict the Future?
35. BeliefNetworks to Provide Forbes.com with Technology to Enhance Access to Relevant Content and Ads
36. Adobe Systems agrees to acquire analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion
37. Omniture, ComScore partner for Web tracking
38. Need to crawl billions of Web pages? There's an app for that

39. BCS Machine Intelligence Competition, due Oct 1
    Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs, due Oct 30
    SBP10: Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction, due Nov 6
    UMAP 2010: User Modeling, Adaptation, And Personalization, due Jan 11 (abstracts)
    KDD-2010, due Feb 2
    Swarm Intelligence, due Feb 28
    

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