KDnuggets News^TM 01:26, Dec 20, 2001

• (item1) KDnuggets regional poll results
• (item2) New Poll: What % of CRM projects failed?
• (item3) RE: Statisticians vs Data Miners

• (item4) Fairfax, VA: Data Miner at SRA

• (item5) DATA MINING: LEVELS I & II [ Orlando: January | Las Vegas: April ]

• (item6) SOFTWARE: CLUTO - Software for Clustering High-Dimensional Datasets
• (item7) Mining Pro Football Data

• (item8) KnowledgeMiner 4.0 Data Mining Tool, now runs on the Mac and Windows
• (item9) Molecular Mining Corp. Announces Agreement With NextGen Consortium
• (item10) Google now has 20 years of Usenet on-line
• (item11) Applix Integra combines interactive planning with CRM analytics
• (item12) CorVu Offers Free Software for Gentia Customers
• (item13) Digital Archaeology Addresses Data Prep for Data Mining
• (item14) Is CRM dead ?
• (item15) BioComp Systems Announces a Major Release of Industrial Intelligence Software
• (item16) CRM spending forecasts from Aberdeen and Gartner

• (item17) EGC2002: 2nd French-speaking Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Management, France, Jan 21-23, 2002.

• (item18) Ecological Informatics Conference, deadline Dec 31, 2001
• (item19) 2002 PAKDD Workshop on Data Mining for Web and Wireless Applications, deadline Feb 1, 2002
• (item20) Workshop on Text Mining at PAKDD 2002, deadline Jan. 20, 2002
• (item21) DIMACS Workshop on Video Mining, deadline July 1, 2002

Tony Fagan sums up Data Mining and Statistics problem as follows:

Data Miner's problem:

"Those who ignore Statistics are condemed to reinvent it."
Jerry Friedman

Statistician's problem:

"What's the difference between a computer scientist and a statistician?" When a statistician gets a new idea he/she writes a paper.
When a computer scientist gets a new idea he/she starts a company."