KDnuggets^TM News 09:n15, Aug 12, 2009

1. Poll Results: Singularity - will machines outsmart humans?
2. New Poll: Analytic/DM company acquired next?
3. INFORMS Data Mining Contest on Health Care Quality
4. Netflix will announce second data mining contest in September
5. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n14, Jul 29

6. SupplierEvaluations: B2B community for Supply Chain Management

7. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ August, Denver | October, Wash-DC ]
8. Sep 7-9, Oct 19-21: Training in Statistical Data Mining in Switzerland
9. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Sep 14-15, Charlottesville, VA

10. Indianapolis, IN: Scientific Programmer - Quantitative Genetics - Trait Genetics & Technologies R&D at Dow AgroSciences LLC
11. Austin, TX: Senior Researcher - DataRush at Pervasive

12. Predictive Analytics World DC Launches Dedicated Tracks for Business Experts and Analytics Practitioners
13. The Facebook Era, ACM Data Mining Chapter presentation, Aug 19, Cupertino
    The 1st Workshop on Information in Networks, Sep 25-26, New York City

14. For Today�s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics
15. New Book: Rare Association Rule Mining for Critical Event Detection
16. The future of data mining
17. Confusion Matrix: Perhaps Confusing, but Definitely Biased
18. Seven Reasons to Switch Web Analytics Tools
19. Winning companies compete with knowledge

20. IBM Take-Over of SPSS Highlights Value of Data Mining and Analytics
21. Bit.ly Says No to Ads, Yes to Data-Mining News
22. Mining Social Networks for Clues
23. Yebol.com steps into the search market
24. Teradata 13 Focuses on Advanced Analytic Performance
25. SAS fights fraud, builds customer relationships via social network, social media analysis
26. SiSense's PrismCubed - Enterprise-Class, low-cost BI Software
27. Applied Technical Systems gets Data Mining Contract from Wash. state

28. Workshop on Information in Networks, due Aug 20
    ACM SAC Special Track on Data Mining, due Sep 8
    IBM and INFORMS DATA MINING CONTEST 2009, due Sep 25
    PAKDD-2010, due Nov 30
    Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM-2010, due Jan 6
    

Do not read any of the [web analytics] reports; ask questions instead.

Jim Sterne

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