KDnuggets^TM News 06:n12, Jun 27, 2006

1. Poll Results: Data Storage for Data Mining
2. Where did you apply data mining in the past 12 months?
3. KDD-06, Philadelphia, Aug 20-23: Early reg deadline is July 14
4. 2006 UCSD Data Mining Competition
5. KDD-2006 Data Mining Demos - proposals due July 6

6. GenIQ Model: Variable Selection, Data Mining, Model Building, and more
7. QDA Miner v2.0, text annotation and document management tool
8. Visumap - visualization software for high dimensional data

9. Philadelphia, Leverage the Power of Data Mining with Salford Systems Training

10. Tampa, FL: Data Miner at Citigroup
11. Philadelphia, PA: Data Analysis Director at KPMG
12. Chicago, IL: Quantitative Researcher at Mercator LLC
13. New York, NY: Manager, Predictive Modeling & Analytics at [x+1] (xplusone)
14. Palo Alto, CA: Senior Leadership Role in Pricing Analytics at Metreo
15. Davis, CA: Data Curator - Data Librarian (Earthquake Research) at NEES Consortium
16. Bellevue, WA: Senior Statistician at T-Mobile
17. Bellevue, WA: Sr. Analyst - Credit Risk Acct Management at T-Mobile
18. Burbank, CA: Sr. Product Manager, Network Optimization, Content Match at Yahoo!

19. SIGKDD online: Successful Real-World Data Mining Applications
20. SAS F2006 is World's Largest Forecasting Conference

21. IBM sues data mining man poached by Microsoft
22. Government Increasingly Turning to Data Mining
23. NSA looking at social-networking spaces
24. Data mining helps uncover fraud in disaster relief
25. Research Explores Data Mining, Privacy
26. Diamonds in the data: flu pandemic, crime forecasting, USDA and more
27. Inductis Wins Leading Data Mining Competition in Europe
28. United States Military Academy Selects SPSS to Predict Success Factors in Cadets
29. Pharmas Must Share PGx Outcomes Data In Order for Targeted Medicine to Catch On
30. Riya supersizes plan: will become a "visual" search engine
31. Bank data mining defended
32. Criminals can use data mining, too

33. The Present and Future of Recommender Systems, Sep 12-13, 2006 - Bilbao, Spain

34. Workshop on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks, due Jul 10
    NIPS 2006, call for workshops, due Aug 4
    AusDM 2006, due Aug 7
    NIPS 2006, call for demos, due Sep 24
    Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007), due Nov 1
    Data Mining Applications on Supercomputing and Grid Environments, due Dec 1
    Int. Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, due Dec 8
    

... perhaps the most important trend is towards the integration of text mining and data mining.

Philip Howard, on Future of Data Mining,
http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=13328