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1. Announcements

  • The inaugural Social Media Analytics Summit (San Francisco, April 17-18) is the first ever two-day business conference with a complete focus on social media analytics. Social media analytics enhances customer service, improves brand and reputation management, and measures overall social media success for businesses. Our proven two-day format of presentations, case studies, panels, workshops, exhibitions, and networking opportunities will provide you with all of the information and connections that you need to accurately measure the impact and ROI of your social media initiatives. Register with discount code ABRIDGESMA to save $150!
  • Predictive Analytics World, March 4-10, 2012 in San Francisco - www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco. Predictive Analytics World, San Francisco is the must attend event for analytics professionals looking to hear from the horse’s mouth precisely how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and the business impact it delivers. Want to learn more?

    Register & Save: Receive $150off your Two Day Pass registration fee when using discount code: ABR150.

  • Predictive Analytics Webinar from The Modeling Agency
    WEBINAR - “Data Mining: Failure to Launch” ( Free Event: March 8 | April 10 ) – Learn how to get Predictive Analytics off the ground and into orbit. In this vendor-neutral 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.
  • Data Mining Courses from The Modeling Agency
    COURSES – Predictive Analytics & Data Mining: Model Development & Strategic Implementation ( Apr 23 - 27 Las Vegas | May 14 - 18 Wash-DC ) -- Learn what managers and practitioners really need to know about predictive modeling. The Modeling Agency’s courses are designed to get you up to speed faster and more effectively than any other program available. Highly seasoned consultants convey a comprehensive and highly pragmatic view of data mining from two distinctly different yet highly complementary orientations. Since The Modeling Agency is not a tools vendor, participants enjoy a balanced, broad, and non-promotional perspective of predictive analytics. View full course details and secure registration.
  • PwC / Lavastorm webinar - Transforming internal audits with generation analytics. Discover how new analytic approaches, including data visualization and automated audits are assisting auditors reach their objectives in a more reliable and cost-effective way. See how PwC’s clients in Russia are using next-generation analytic techniques to solve complex audit challenges. Feb 29, 10am EST.
  • IE Group Conferences:
  • 2012 BayesiaLab Training Schedule- We just concluded our final training for the year 2011 in Atlanta with record attendance. For 2012, the following 3-day training seminars are currently planned:
    • April 18-20, Orange County, CA (right after the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & O.R.)
    • July 10-12, Toronto, Canada
    • October, San Jose, CA (to be held in conjunction with the 2012 Data Mining Camp)

    For details, visit click here.
  • Rapid-I - Founder of open source data mining software Rapid|Miner, Rapid-I provides software, solutions, and services in the fields of predictive analytics, data mining, and text mining. The company concentrates on automatic intelligent analyses on a large-scale base, i.e. for large amounts of structured data like database systems and unstructured data like texts. The open-source data mining specialist Rapid-I enables other companies to use leading-edge technologies for data mining and business intelligence. Click here for details.
  • StatSoft announces the release of their new YouTube video series on Text Mining. The series will provide hands-on tutorials of text mining applications. StatSoft will release a new video every week. Subscribers to the StatSoft YouTube channel will have quick and easy access to the videos as soon as they become available. Users can also register to receive emails every time a new video is released.

    STATISTICA Text Miner is an optional extension of STATISTICA Data Miner, ideal for translating unstructured text data into meaningful, valuable nuggets of decision-making "gold." The Text Miner application can be used to analyze the contents of web pages, analyze large document repositories and include unstructured notes in predictive data mining projects. For more information, click here.

  • INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, April 15 – 17, 2012, in Huntington Beach, California, at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa on the beach, is the leading analytics conference for showcasing the strategic use of analytics and O.R. in government and industry. With INFORMS, you don't just get the "what to do," you also get the "how to do it." INFORMS is the largest analytics organization in the world with the leading minds in business analytics counted among its members. Two top industry executives will provide the keynote addresses: Hal Varian of Google and Bob Page of eBay.

2. Message From The Editor

  • Our data science / big data e-book is growing. We now have 37 contributions (some from Lavastorm and Gartner), and 86 pages. You can download it at analyticbridge.com/group/data-science/forum/topics/data-science-e-b....
  • Coming soon, and developed in our research laboratory (Analyticbridge University):
    • Training, webcasts and advanced certification program
    • Proprietary stock market forecaster to predict trends for major stock indices
    • New, state-of-the-art scoring technology (AaaS - Analytics as a Service) for fraud detection
    • List of top 1,000 analytic blogs and websites, comparing 2011 with 2010
    • Wordpress blog
    • New blog post: 30 unusual applications of analytics to solve problems
    • New blog post: 10+ metrics for fraud detection
    • New blog post: 10+ metrics to measure user engagement
  • We have made our three popular news feeds (job ads, conferences, network news) easier than ever to install on your blog or website. Now it's as simple as cut and paste. Download these feeds and paste the Javascript code on your web pages. Et voila! Now you have good quality content on your website, automatically updated every 3 hours or so.
  • Miscellaneous

3. Selected News and Contributions

4. Job Section

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