AnalyticBridge Newsletter - December 2008

If you are not yet an AnalyticBridge member, join today and enjoy all the benefits at no cost. AnalyticBridge, through its groups, member directory and tools to make new friends, makes it easy to identify and network with members sharing similar interests. Also, AnalyticBridge is more business and technology oriented than our LinkedIn groups. By contrast, our LinkedIn groups are more career and jobs oriented.

 

In our next edition, we will include a FAQ to help members navigate our website. One of the most frequent tasks, asking a new questions in the forums, is performed as follows: click on the Forum tab at the top. Then click on a category (e.g. statistical software, careers). Then click on the red link at the top (right hand side) that says "+ Add a Discussion".

Featured Offers

• AIMMS is an optimization modeling product that provides analytic professionals, scientists, and engineers from all industries an out-of-the-box Operations Research technology. The platform provides an easy to use graphical IDE with many productivity tools, for fast development and versatile deployment. Building & sharing optimization-based applications or components with others or within the organization, has never been more easy. Try it yourself. Website: www.aimms.com.

• Attend Predictive Analytics World, San Francisco, Feb 18-19 - the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. PAW delivers case studies, expertise and resources to achieve two objectives: Bigger wins and Broader capabilities. Strengthen the business impact of predictive analytics deployment and establish new opportunities.

  Keynotes include: Usama Fayyad, Ph.D., Chief Data Officer and EVP Research & Strategic Data Solutions Yahoo!, Inc. and Andreas Weigend, Former Chief Scientist, Amazon.com. Join them and other speakers from 3M, Acxiom, Affiliated Computer Services, Click Forensics, Charles Schwab, Chase, Google, Linden Lab (Second Life), Pinnacol Assurance, Reed Elsevier, Sun, The NRA, Wells Fargo. Register Now at www.pawcon.com.

AnalyticBridge News

• Our November Member of the Month is Sandro Saita. Sandro is one of our faithful members. He recruited many great new members over the last few months. Sandro has completed a computer science Ph.D. at the prestigious EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). He designed a data mining search engine, based on 800 links provided by AnalyticBridge members. Visit our Member of the Month group to check conditions of eligibility and past members. The award is $250.

• Read our Interview with Analytic Leaders, featuring this time Dr. Eric Siegel, President of Prediction Impacts, and Paul Barsch, Marketing Director of Teradata.

• We have posted photos of AnalyticBridge's headquarters under 6 inches of snow. This is also a reminder that we have a picture section. Members can upload pictures, charts, graphs, maps, and even videos.

• Group updates
  • Our SAS group can now be accessed via the URL SASnetwork.com.
  • News feeds have been added to the BI and Web Analytics groups.
  • If you want to have your consulting services listed on Ask the Expert, please contact us. There is no cost, but you must be a member. We we'll soon update the directory.
  • To post a new event, training, conference or webinar, join the Conference Group and click on "+ Add a Discussion". Your event will appear on every page on AnalyticBridge. There is currently no cost.
  • Visit our new groups: Hall of Fame, SAS BI Applications and LinkedIn Invites. Members listed on LinkedIn Invites usually accept, rarely ignore and never reject invitations from other LinkedIn members.

• Our featured blog posts are now available as RSS feeds. It features the best blog posts from all our members. It also provides you with a simple way to add quality content to your website: visit datashaping.com/feeds.shtml to learn how you can add this content to your website. Finally, if you want to add a blog post, click on "+Add a Blog Post" on www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blog/list.

• In our next edition:
  • Update on our search for a co-founder
  • ROI and profit optimization for social networks
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Article on the creation of a new paper-less, digital currency. Data mining and security aspects

This newsletter is sent monthly to AnalyticBridge members and subscribers, as well as members of our LinkedIn group. To unsubscribe, please reply with unsubscribe in the subject line.