Top news, jobs in October: Data Mining Cartoon; Predicting Obama vs Romney; StatSoft free software to struggling EU countries

Most viewed news items

1. Data Mining Cartoon: Twitter, Facebook, and Prediction ( comments) - Oct 15, 2012.
2. New Poll: Predicting Obama vs Romney - Oct 2, 2012.
3. Poll Results: Predicting Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney ( comments) - Oct 16, 2012.
4. 10 Big Data Sites to Watch - Oct 10, 2012.
5. IPython Notebook environment for Data Science ( comments) - Oct 16, 2012.
6. NASA, NSF, DOE Launch Big Data Challenge - Oct 11, 2012.
7. Ajay Ohri Book: R for Business Analytics - Read online - Oct 4, 2012.
8. WSJ Next Big Thing in Analytics, Big Data - Oct 3, 2012.
9. My HBR blog: Big Data Hype and Reality ( comments) - Oct 19, 2012.
10. Kaggle Beginner Competition: Predicting Titanic Survival using Machine Learning - Oct 2, 2012.

Most shared news items

1. Data Mining Cartoon: Twitter, Facebook, and Prediction - Oct 15, 2012.
2. StatSoft offers free software to struggling European Countries - Oct 20, 2012.
3. SiteCharm: Real-time Website Analytics - Oct 11, 2012.
4. 10 Big Data Sites to Watch - Oct 10, 2012.
5. BigML First Marketplace for Predictive Models - Oct 27, 2012.
6. Free Webinar, Oct 19: Decision Tree Ensembles: A Winning Combination - Oct 10, 2012.
7. My HBR blog: Big Data Hype and Reality - Oct 19, 2012.
8. Splice SQL Engine(tm) for Big Data Apps - Oct 17, 2012.
9. SAS Model Manager supports SAS, PMML, R models - Oct 8, 2012.
10. New Poll: Should Data Scientists / Data Miners be responsible for their predictions? - Oct 30, 2012.

Most viewed jobs and positions

1. Data Scientist at Kyruus, Boston, MA - Oct 20, 2012.
2. Associate Predictive Modeler at Allstate, Northbrook, IL - Oct 9, 2012.
3. Junior researcher, Machine Learning, Data Mining, IR at DIPF, Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Oct 7, 2012.
4. Faculty in Big Data at ASU, Tempe, AZ - Oct 9, 2012.
5. Senior Data and Market Analyst at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ - Oct 15, 2012.
6. Postdocs in Data Mining, Machine Learning at KAUST, Saudi Arabia - Oct 21, 2012.
7. Internships in Big Data/Data Mining at Telefonica Research, Madrid, Spain - Oct 8, 2012.