KDnuggets^TM News 09:n08, Apr 28, 2009

1. SIGKDD Election Poll results: Fayyad, Gehrke, Webb lead
2. New Poll: Data Mining Model deployment
3. Discussion with State Farm's Eric Webster: Insurance and Data Mining
4. SBP09: sociologists and data miners come together to advance social computing
5. Where are you going with text analytics?
6. Data Mining Stories in six words?
7. Analytic / Data Mining Blog Highlights
8. KDD-09 Accepted Papers
9. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n07, Apr 14

10. Commercial Support launched for Open Source KNIME
11. Association discovery tool Magnum Opus celebrates tenth anniversary with release 4.3
12. ADAPA(r) is a True Revolution in Data Mining

13. Transcend your competition with business analytics: SAS Webcasts, May-June

14. Put your Data to Work with Advanced Analytics

15. Santa Monica, CA: Quantitative Research Scientist/Engineer at Cars.com

16. PhD Studentship in Data Mining at U. Geneva, Switzerland

17. New book: Multidimensional Data Modeling Toolkit
18. The Top Ten Algorithms in Data Mining
19. The Future of Social Media Monitoring
20. Data mining tutorials from John Elder on Youtube
21. OpenSecrets.org Goes OpenData

22. 10 technologies to bet in a recession
23. New Mac App KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel To Help Predict the Future
24. QL2 Selects Tableau Analytics Solution as the First Third-Party Application for Its Award Winning Data Platform
25. Microsoft offers data mining tools in the cloud
26. Researchers: Databases still beat Google's MapReduce
27. Analytics firm Visible Measures lands MySpace deal
28. IBM launches business analytics services unit; Eyes predictive modeling
29. TellmeTwin victorious at Red Herring 100 Europe awards 2009
30. Cultural Analytics Emerging
31. Hospitals mine data to identify those likely to pay
32. State's Rx data-mining decision upheld by district court judge

33. ADKDD'09, due May 1
    Data Mining Case Studies and Practice Prize, due May 2
    DM-SI: INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and System Informatics, due May 15
    Knowledge Representation for Health-Care, due May 15
    Metaheuristics for Large Scale Data Mining, due May 31
    British AI-2009, due Jun 1
    1st International Competition on Plagiarism Detection, due Jun 7
    Learning Monotone Models From Data, due Jun 10
    From Local Patterns to Global Models, due Jun 10
    Workshop on Preference Learning, due Jun 15
    IEEE ICDM'09, due Jun 26
    ECML/PKDD 2011 Proposals, due Jun 30 (Proposals)
    

Insurance is nothing but management of information. It is pooling of risk, and whomever can manipulate information the best has a significant competitive advantage

Eric Webster, Vice President of Marketing at State Farm

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