- 2010 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award, Due Apr 2 - Mar 30, 2010.
This annual award by ACM SIGKDD will recognize excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.
- PAKDD 2010: Data Mining Competition - Mar 29, 2010.
How to build a model for a binary decision support system based on this type of biased sample in a credit scoring application
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News: New Poll: Is anonymization of large datasets still possible? KDD Cup 2010: Educational Data Mining.
Jobs: Analytics Engineer at Eventbrite; Data Mining Engineer at eBay
- New Poll: Is anonymization of large datasets still possible? - Mar 23, 2010.
Recently, Netflix cancelled the 2nd Netflix Prize due to privacy concerns. With so much personal information online, do you think that it is still possible for companies like Netflix to anonymize and release large datasets (for research and competitions)?
- Poll Results: Sports Analytics Are Useful - Mar 23, 2010.
Sports analytics merely increase the likelihood of (yet do not guarantee) making a more educated, more informed decision.
- KDD Cup 2010: Educational Data Mining - Mar 23, 2010.
This year's challenge asks you to predict student performance on mathematical problems from logs of student interaction with Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
- KDD-2010 Workshops - calls for papers - Mar 22, 2010.
KDD-2010 will have 4 full day workshops: Mining and Learning with Graphs; Large-scale Data Mining; Useful Patterns; Social Media Analytics; and 5 half day ones: KDD Cup 2010; BIOKDD10; MDMKDD 2010; ADKDD'10; Human Computation
- Next Neflix Prize cancelled due to privacy concerns - Mar 22, 2010.
After FTC expressed concerns about Netflix members privacy and a lawsuit was filed pertaing to the sequel, Netflix decided to cancel the Netflix Prize sequel
- Most viewed items for week Mar 14-20 - Mar 21, 2010.
Top news: Clarabridge Self Service Text Analytics; Stanford online graduate education;; Poll Results: Data Miner Salary by Region. Top jobs: Data Mining Engineer at eBay; Scientist at ID Analytics
- 3rd Annual Rexer Analytics Data Miner Survey - Summary - Mar 19, 2010.
Most commonly used algorithms are regression, decision trees, and cluster analysis. The top challenges facing data miners are dirty data, explaining data mining to others, and difficult access to data. Users of IBM SPSS Modeler, Statistica, and Rapid Miner are the most satisfied with their software.
- Most viewed items for week Mar 7-13 - Mar 14, 2010.
News: Stanford University online graduate education; Poll Results: Data Miner Salary by Region; Jobs: Statistician / Data Analyst at LoopNet, San Francisco, CA
- Weka User Survey - Win Amazon.com Gift Card - Mar 11, 2010.
U. of Waikato, the home of Weka, is interested to learn more about the people who use Weka Machine Learning Software. Do this 4-minute survey and you can win a $200 Amazon gift card.
- New Poll: How useful are sports analytics? - Mar 9, 2010.
Is it a Sports Analytics Bubble? The recent MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference drew over 1,000 people - clearly Sports analytics are hot.
- Poll Results: Are there concise laws in large data? - Mar 9, 2010.
35% think concise laws are frequent, but concise laws are probabilistic due to noise randomness inherent in human or biological systems
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