KDnuggets^TM News 06:n22, Nov 21, 2006

1. First SIGKDD Webcast: Web Content Mining, Nov 29, noon ET
2. Poll Results: Netflix Grand Prize - When?
3. New Poll: Web analytics, web log analysis, web usage mining tools
4. Data Mining Blogs Spotlight
5. Top items from KDnuggets News 06:n21, Nov 7

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7. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Jan ]

8. Burlington, MA, USA: Econometrician / Statistician at iKnowtion LLC
9. Richardson, TX: ECommerce Catalog Statistical Analyst at Fossil, Inc
10. Atlanta, GA: Field Marketing Analyst at Cox Communications, Inc.
11. Atlanta, GA: Manager, Marketing Analysis at Cox Communications, Inc.
12. Sunnyvale, CA: Data Mining Researcher at Yahoo
13. San Francisco, CA: Statistical Analyst/Data Modeler at Quality Planning Corporation

14. Washington, DC: Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown U.
15. PhD position in Caen, France: Hierarchical segmentation of Large Images

16. BI and Business Analytics Survey Results
17. SQL Server Executive: Mining for Quality
18. Practical Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005: Data Mining
19. Web 3.0: Internet as your personal adviser?
20. OOPSLA 2006 Panel on Object Databases Published.
21. PhD Thesis: Modeling ETL for Web Usage Analysis

22. Computer programs help flag insurance fraud before payment
23. New Survey Technology allows you to 'listen' to the voice of the customer:
24. Digging Deeply Into Matrimonial Data Mining
25. SER Receives Two U.S. Patents for Innovation in Audio Data Monitoring and Mining
26. Podcast from Anderson Analytics: Hotel Brands and Loyalty Programs through the Eye of the Frequent Traveler.
27. InforSense Conferences: Nov 29 - Rochester, MN; Dec 6-7, Hinxton, England
28. DHS IG scrutinizing data mining prototype, other programs

29. British AI-2006: Cambridge, UK, Dec 11-13
    ICDT 2007: 11th Int. Conference On Database Theory, Jan 10-12
    EGC 2007: Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances, Jan 23-26

30. Call For KDD-2007 Panel Proposals, due Feb 28
31. KDD 07 BOF: Call for Birds of Feather at KDD-07, due Dec 15
32. EVOBIO 2007: Evolutionary Computation, ML and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, due Nov 10
    IEEE DMIR-07: Data Mining and Information Retrieval Symposium, due Dec 1
    FLAIRS 20, due Nov 20
    Call for Workshops at COMPSAC 2007, due Dec 15
    NSF BioSurveillance Workshop 2007, due Jan 30
    ICML 2007, due Feb 7 (abstracts)
    Adversarial Issues in Web Search, spec. issue, due Mar 30
    IDA 2007, due Apr 6
    

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