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KDnuggetsTM News 03:22, Nov 25, 2003

Features | Courses | Jobs | Software | Academic | Publications | Briefs | CFP | Quote
  • (item1) Poll Results: SVM, Web mining usage grows; Genetic algorithms, Associations decline
  • (item2) New Poll: Outsourcing data mining services off-shore
  • (item3) Internet Archive approached 300 TB in 2002
Courses (see also KDnuggets Courses page)
  • (item4) DATA MINING: LEVELS I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Feb ]
  • (item5) New Insightful courses, Dec 8-9, 11-12, Boston, MA
  • (item6) Web Seminar - Reliability Assurance Analysis Using S-PLUS, Dec 10, 11 AM EST/8 AM PST
  • (item7) Data Mining Tutorial (in German), Leipzig, Germany, Jan 23-24, 2004
Jobs (see also KDnuggets Jobs page)
  • (item8) New York, NY: Data Mining Analyst at Ernst & Young LLP
  • (item9) New York, NY: Sr. Analyst/ Modeler at Citibank International Cards
  • (item10) Framingham, MA: Sr. Statistical Modeler at Staples
Software (see also KDnuggets Software page)
  • (item11) XLMiner: Data Mining in Excel
Academic (see also KDnuggets Academic page)
  • (item12) Faculty Positions, Informatics, at Indiana University (Bloomington)
Publications (see also KDnuggets Publications page)
  • (item13) Mining Links by Richard Hachathorn in DM Review
  • (item14) European Network of Excellence Text Mining Study
  • (item15) InfoWorld on Web Mining for business intelligence
Briefs
  • (item16) InfoSpace uses Search Clustering from Vivisimo
  • (item17) Gartner sees IT rebound; data mining, real-time analytics among skills in demand
  • (item18) Information Visualization
  • (item19) ANGOSS Announces Completion of $2,300,000 Financing to Fund Business Expansion
  • (item20) MIT uses data mining to search for new materials
  • (item21) Quadstone Offering to Combat Customer Churn Related to Wireless Number Portability
  • (item22) Keeping Watch for Interstellar Computer Viruses
  • (item23) Defense officials lament lost data-mining opportunities
CFP deadlines (see also KDnuggets Meetings page)
  • (item24) Canadian AI'2004, Dec 3
    Data Mining Workshop at SCS'04, Dec 15
    ICML-04 Workshop proposals, Dec 19
    ICML-04, Jan 30
    Spec. Issue on Learning from Imbalanced Datasets, Jan 30
    Special Issue on Web Information Retrieval, Feb 8
    ISI-2004, Feb 10
    UAI-2004, Feb 10
    Spec. Issue on on Mining Stream Data, Mar 1
    ECML/PKDD-2004, Apr 19
Quote
The Onion, published a funny cartoon, showing "data miner" as one of 10 worst US jobs in year 2049, along with "post-apocalyptic lumberjack" and "moon raker".
Thanks (??) to David Crawford for the pointer. Fortunately, there is a lot of time till 2049 ...

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