KDnuggets^TM News 07:n24, Dec 18, 2007

1. Poll Results: Data Mining Conferences attended in 2007
2. New Poll: Analysis types / Applications you plan to increase in 2008
3. Highlights from Analytic / Data Mining Blogs
4. The Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award
5. Opinion: RapidMiner is not a version of Weka
6. Opinion: RapidMiner is heavily based on Weka
7. Top items from KDnuggets News 07:n23, Dec 4
8. Top KDnuggets News Items for 2007

9. SoftPro Manager 4.0 OLAP Client - freely available

10. Data Mining Course Series for Executives, Managers or Practitioners [ Jan, Orlando | Apr, Las Vegas ]

11. San Jose, CA: Data mining scientist, Applied Research at eBay
12. Princeton, NJ: Research Scientist - Data Mining & Machine Learning at Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
13. Cambridge, MA: Infrastructure Developer - Systems Biology/Text Mining (P3) at Pfizer
14. Toronto, Canada: Data Operations Analyst at Digital Cement
15. Brande, Denmark: Business Development Retail Analyst at Bestseller
16. Purchase, NY: Quantitative Trading and Operations at LYZ Capital Advisors

17. Survey Book On Privacy-Preserving Data Mining (Springer)
18. BusinessWeek on Usama Fayyad: Battling Data Monsters at Yahoo!
19. Data Mining to help prove some of the most famous mathematical conjectures.
20. ACM TKDD: Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Dec 2007 issue
21. Bank Case Study Of Data Mining Application

22. Data mining humming along at DHS
23. Business Objects Inks Deal with SPSS
24. Microsoft Adds More Tools for Search Marketers
25. Revenue Science Pairs Behavioral Targeting with Exchange Model
26. Will You Buy? More Companies Turn To Predictive Analytics Software
27. Independent Survey Names SPSS Predictive Analytics Number One Choice Among Data Miners
28. Finansbank Selects KXEN Data Mining Solution

29. European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing

30. Knowledge Discovery and Management in Biomedical IS, due Dec 31
    8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining Leipzig-ICDM-2008, due Jan 21
    Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge-based Techniques in Medicine, due Jan 28
    Open Source Intelligence and Web Mining, due Feb 15
    ECAI 2008, due Feb 25
    PAIS 2008: Applications of Intelligent Systems, due Feb 25
    UAI 2008, due Feb 27
    CIARP'2008: Pattern Recognition, due Mar 31
    Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data, due June 20
    

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to all KDnuggets Readers!
(here is my greeting in 20 languages!)

KDnuggets now has over 11,300 subscribers from 104 domains. Most subscribers are from the USA. Next 20 countries with the most subscribers are China (moving to #2 from #3 last year), Germany, UK, France, Canada, India, Italy, Spain, Taiwan, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Singapore, South Korea, and Israel.

Countries with just one subscriber include Algeria, Azerbaijan, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guatemala, Kenya, Trinidad and Tobago, Monaco, Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Malta, and Uganda.

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to all!

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

Frequent words/terms in this issue:

analysis analytics application book business candidate client code company data data+mining development discovery experience interface knowledge large mining model network number operation people poll predictive product rapidminer research result software spss system team technology tool user version weka work

Most viewed of all items * 5. Opinion: RapidMiner is not a version of Weka * 6. Opinion: RapidMiner is heavily based on Weka * 1. Poll Results: Data Mining Conferences attended in 2007 * 3. Highlights from Analytic / Data Mining Blogs * 30. CFP - Calls for papers * 9. SoftPro Manager 4.0 OLAP Client - freely available * 19. Data Mining to help prove a famous mathematical conjecture * 21. Bank Case Study Of Data Mining Application * 20. ACM TKDD Dec 2007 issue * 4. The Classification Society Dissertation Award Most viewed Jobs: * 12. Princeton, NJ: Research Scientist - Data Mining & Machine Learning at ... * 11. San Jose, CA: Data mining scientist, Applied Research at eBay * 16. Purchase, NY: Quantitative Trading and Operations at LYZ Capital Most viewed Publications: * 19. Data Mining to help prove a famous mathematical conjecture * 21. Bank Case Study Of Data Mining Application * 20. ACM TKDD Dec 2007 issue Most viewed Briefs: * 22. Data mining humming along at DHS * 27. SPSS Predictive Analytics Number One Choice * 23. Business Objects Inks Deal with SPSS * 26. Will You Buy? More Companies Turn To Predictive Analytics Software