AnalyticBridge Newsletter - October 2009

Featured Conferences and Webinars

• M2009 Data Mining Conference, October 26-27, Las Vegas - Join more than 700 data miners October 26-27 for the 12th annual M2009 Data Mining Conference. M2009 is the world's largest data mining conference and brings together industry thought leaders for two days of informative session on the latest trends in the industry. Listen to keynote presentations and case studies in the areas of retail, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, text mining, fraud detection, and more! Learn more at www.sas.com/m2009.

• Data Mining: Levels I, II & III (Dec 7 – 11 in Las Vegas | Feb 8 – 12 in Orlando ) -- Learn how experts mine data and reduce your time to proficiency in predictive analytics. Leverage valuable information hidden within your volume of data for prospective insight and proactive treatment. This aggressive impact-oriented series presents data mining from three orientations. Register early to ensure your space: the DC production is near capacity. Full course details and secure registration at: www.the-modeling-agency.com/data-mining.

• Data Mining: Failure to Launch ( Free Webinar: 11a EDT Oct 28 | 4p EST Nov 17 ) -- Get predictive modeling off the ground and into orbit. In this vendor-neutral and method agnostic live presentation, participants will learn why more than half of all data mining projects fail or fall short; how to avoid common pitfalls; valuable tips and tricks to enhance predictive modeling performance; why data mining is within their grasp; and how to get started. View event details and register for this Free Webinar at: www.the-modeling-agency.com/abridge.

• Data Mining Camp -- You are invited to the 2009 Silicon Valley Data Mining Camp, a free un-conference in Mountain View, CA on Sunday, November 1, 2009. Please RSVP.

• Business Analytics Summit & Exhibition, San Jose, November 2009

Featured New Books and Companies

• Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications by Robert Nisbet, John Elder, IV and Gary Miner.

Job And Resume Section

• Featured job ads
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• Web Analytics - AnalyticCircle.com
• International - LinkedIn
• For Recruiters - AnalyticBrain.com

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Editor's Picks

• New Groups: San Francisco - Bay Area Chapter | Internships
• Polls: Health Care Reform | Is The Job Market Improving?
• Great animated charts: The Geography of Job Losses | Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America
• Ajay's interviews: Shawn Kung, Sr. Director, Aster Data | Michael Zeller, CEO Zementis | Ken O Connor, BI Consultant | Evan Levy, Baseline Consulting | Augusto Albeghi, Founder Straysoft | Thomas Redman, Author Data Driven

• Blog posts
  • Brian Roger: #24 | #23
  • Marketers need new models..customer behaviour is changing!
  • A Better Way to Mine Data
  • Hamburger Data Quality- data collection is the start
  • Netflix Prize Pioneer to Speak at Predictive Analytics World
  • Free content vs email registration requirement, which is better?
  • Project Gaydar: Identifying Gay Students Using Data Mining Techniqu...
  • Why do Social Media?
  • Drowning in Data!
  • Unexpected consequences of mandatory health insurance
  • Making data talk-the Coke way!
  • Data Visualization- The Ultimate Way for Key to Success

• Interesting posts in groups and forums
  • Trademark suit complicated IBM's takeover of SPSS; company nears se...
  • How to use the search box on AnalyticBridge
  • Zementis: Six New Members Add Their Support To PMML
  • Great idea to increase active member participation in social networks
  • WPS Language Compatibility with SAS
  • 1MM customers lose all their data on their cell phone
  • R test case and reference data set needed
  • How to detect an email address used for spamming?
  • Clustering with R - efficient processing of large sparse data sets ... | Feedback in the text mining group
  • Bias in car accident studies
  • Proportional odds assumption
  • Event rates across multiple small categories
  • A custom GUI application
  • Davidson and McKinnon Equation (Non-nested equation)

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