KDnuggets^TM News 08:n02, Jan 22, 2008

1. Poll Results: Which Candidates You Support?
2. 2008 KDnuggets Data Miner Salary and Region Survey
3. SIGKDD Dissertation Award - Nominations due Mar 1
4. Announcing sixearch.org

5. Megaputer Takes Lead in Data and Text Mining with PolyAnalyst 6
6. Salford Data Mining: Demo on your data, Case Studies
7. SPSS Boosts the Power of Predictive Analytics with Clementine 12.0
8. Angoss online survey for On-Demand model
9. Waffles - data mining and machine learning library in C++

10. Free Webcast, Jan 29, Feb 19: Data Mining Intro for Beginners, Vendor-Neutral
11. Past KDD webcasts available on KDD.org site

12. Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining II: tools for tall and wide data

13. Providence, RI: Analytics Engineer (Entry Level) at Retail Decisions (ReD)
14. Toronto, CA: Data Mining Analyst at Waterfront International
15. Seattle, WA: Analytics Director at Avenue A | Razorfish
16. Billerica, MA: Data Mining / Data Analysis at Bull Services
17. Fremont, CA (Silicon Valley): Chief Scientist at OfferPal Media

18. Extracting nonlinear dependencies from data

19. Predictive Analytics: Slow Adoption Despite Big Benefits
20. Avoiding Plane Crashes By Crunching Numbers: Data Mining Helps Identify Subtle Flaws

21. Prediction Markets at Google
22. SPSS Furnishes Corporate Express with Predictive Analytics to Improve Customer Loyalty
23. Microsoft To Acquire FAST Search & Transfer For $1.2B
24. US News: Ahead of the Curve Career: Data Miner
25. Fraudsters beware: Iowa State engineer is developing cyber technology to find you
26. U Alabama Mines Data To Boost Enrollment, Retention
27. Collexis New Online Social Network, BioMedExperts, to Improve Collaboration Among Medical Researchers
28. Advanced Analytics Move Centre Stage at the Royal Shakespeare Company
29. Omniture And Google Analytics Over-Hyped
30. Elsevier boosts healthcare analytics offerings with MEDai acquisition

31. NSF/IIS Panelists and Reviewers Needed
32. Causality challenge: Causation and Prediction, due Apr 30
33. Social Linking Track at Hypertext 2008, due Feb 11
    Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR), due Feb 15 (abstracts)
    Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2008), due Feb 15
    Software Engineering and Data Engineering, due Feb 22
    DMIN-08, The 4th Int. Conference on Data Mining, due Feb 25
    Information Systems & Data Analysis workshop, due Feb 28
    What Went Wrong and Why: Lessons from AI, due Apr 7
    RecSys 2008, due May 18
    IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-08), due Jul 7
    Agents and Data Mining, due Sep 15
    

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

William Gibson

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