AnalyticBridge Newsletter - January 2009

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, and offers significantly more customization when creating or updating your profile: you can add unlimited links, videos, and pictures or charts. You can change your profile layout, and add blog posts and many applications (heatmaps, games, file sharing, chat room, friends map etc.). By contrast, our LinkedIn groups are more career and jobs oriented.

Featured Conferences, Products and Services

• 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, Click Forensics, Charles Schwab, Google, Linden Lab (Second Life), Pinnacol Assurance, Reed Elsevier, Sun, Telenor, The NRA, Wells Fargo. Register Now at www.pawcon.com.

  Dr. Vincent Granville, Founder of AnalyticBridge and Chief Scientist at Click Forensics, will be presenting.

Featured Job Ads

• Data Mining Developer - Click Forensics (Austin, TX)
• Director - Data and Content Analytics (New York, NY or Bethlehem, PA)

Featured Resume

• Sandro has a M.Sc. in computer science and a Ph.D. in data mining. He is currently a programmer analyst in a financial company in Switzerland. He is Interested in data mining, data analysis, data management, statistics, decision support, business intelligence, search engine optimization (SEO) and website marketing. Check his linkedin profile at linkedin.com/in/datamining.

AnalyticBridge News

• We will soon offer the possibility to purchase a featured member profile (16 slots available), a featured picture (2 slots), a featured video (1 slot) and featured group (1 slot). These featured entries will show up on the front page. Please contact us for details. Featured resumes or consultants are already available in our newsletter.
• Interview with analytic leaders: Marcus P. Zillman, Web Robot Expert, Speaker, Consultant.
• Member of the month, December-08: Eric N.
• Interesting blog posts, group and forum contributions:

  • R / Splus / SPSS Clementine / JMP / Salford Systems memory limitations
  • Best Open Source Software
  • How to Cure the Economy with an Unusual Markov Chain with Three States
  • Click fraud reaches record high in Q4 2008
  • Google offers database with 1,024,908,267,229 words
  • Deploy your SAS models on the Amazon EC2 Compute Cloud
  • Agile Business Intelligence

• 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.

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