KDnuggets: Data Mining and Analytics

Sentiment Analysis for Business, Finance, and Social Media, May 8, New York

The Symposium bridges technology and business in one of the most exciting applications to emerge in recent years: software that discovers business value in opinions and attitudes in social media, news, and enterprise feedback.

Allstate: Predictive Modeler/Data Scientist: use ML/Statistics/Data Mining to influence decision making

Opportunity for a creative predictive modeler/data scientist to use machine learning, statistics, data mining, and analytic skills to influence the decision making.

Knowledge Exchange: Sr. DB Architect, to support political campaign and marketing efforts

We are assembling a multidisciplinary team of data scientists, developers and analysts to support political campaign and marketing efforts, for politically right of center organizations in the 2012 election cycle.

Birst lowers the Hadoop adoption barrier by letting users treat Big Data like ordinary data

Birst has lowered the Hadoop adoption barrier by letting users treat Big Data like an ordinary data set and ask it a broad set of questions. A company now only needs a half-a-developer to do the work, not a handful.

Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anonymous

Web log data such as can identify individual machines. HTTP user-agent information alone can identify the host 62% of the time, and with the IP address accuracy jumps to 81%.

d50media: Quantitative Researcher, design, build, and deliver analytic and modeling solutions

design, build, and deliver analytic and modeling solutions that optimize investments in digital media, direct marketing, and mass media. Work with clients to understand business issues. Work with internal teams to create tools and reporting dashboards.

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Postdocs in Data Analysis/Data Mining and other areas

HIIT research ranges from fundamental methods and technologies to novel applications and their impact on science, people and society. Research areas include developing advanced data analysis, mining, and modelling methods.

U. Porto seek candidates for the Master in Info. Engineering (MEINF), taught entirely in English.

The University of Porto is seeking international candidates for the Master in Information Engineering (MEINF), which is taught entirely in English. MEINF educates engineers to be able to design, build and test engineering systems centered in information and knowledge processing.

Cablevision: Mgr, Marketing DB & Campaign Analytics, analytics and data strategy.

Responsible for leading the execution of the analytics and data strategy needed to meet the requirements of the marketing organization.

U. Kansas, Res. Asst. Prof, Med. Informatics. Passion for SW Dev., Discovery, Improving Healthcare

KUMC seeks highly motivated individuals with a passion for software development, scientific discovery, and improving healthcare. Be part of a rapidly growing team developing informatics to further translational research and serving a dynamic community.

KDnuggets 12:n03, Top Influencers in Big Data, Data Mining; Annual Analytics Salary Poll

New: "Data Mining: Principles and Best Practices", from SAS and Elder Research, NYC: Mar, Chicago: Apr.

SAS and Elder Research bring you a new course: "Data Mining: Principles and Best Practices", which introduces expert techniques and shows how effective application solves business problems. New York: Mar 21-23, Chicago: Apr 2-4.

Predictive Analytics World, Text Analytics World, March 4-10, San Francisco are packed with the top experts

Delivering 7 days of content, including workshop days. Predictive Analytics World, March 4-10, 2012 in San Francisco, is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders.

New KDnuggets Poll is asking: What is your Annual Salary/Income?

New KDnuggets Poll is asking: if you are in Analytics field, what is your Annual Salary/Income? Please vote

Amazon: Sr. SDE, Targeting/Prediction. We will change how advertising world measures, plans, and buys

We will change the way that the advertising world measures, plans, and buys. Along the way, we're going to face seemingly impossible problems. We're going to argue about how to solve them, and we'll work together to find a solution that is superior to each of the proposals we came in with.

On Big Data Analytics: Roberto V. Zicari interviews Florian Waas, EMC/Greenplum Dir. of SW Engineering

With terabytes, things are actually pretty simple - most conventional databases scale to terabytes these days. However, scaling to petabytes is a whole different ball game.

Accretive Health (Chicago) looking for a Chief Algorithms Officer, PHDs and PHD students from top schools

Looking for a Chief Algorithms Officer, PHDs and PHD students from top ranked schools with a passion for machine learning, algorithms, AI, data mining and bioinformatics to solve a massive problem.

Stylitics is an analytics dashboard for your closet

Stylitics, launched in private beta in November 2011, is an analytics dashboard that does for your closet what Mint.com does for your finances. See how you can get invites.

Top influencers in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining

KDnuggets was #15 on Forbes List of Top Influencers in Big Data. Who are the others, and who influences Analytics and Data Mining?

DEFT 2012 is a French text mining challenge workshop.

Le defi DEFT est un atelier d'evaluation francophone en fouille de textes. DEFT is a French text mining challenge workshop.

Top news, Jan 29 - Feb 4: KDDCUP 2012; Microsoft plan for Hadoop; The Koblenz Network Datasets

KDDCUP 2012; Microsoft plan for Hadoop and big data; The Koblenz Network Datasets Top jobs: Data Scientist at Twitter; Research Scientist at RSA.

LIONsolver training in Palo Alto, Frankfurt, Paris. Learning and Optimization for solving biz problems.

LIONsolver software combines Learning and Intelligent Optimization for solving business problems. A crucial component is Reactive Search Optimization (RSO). Next courses are in Palo Alto, Frankfurt, and Paris.

Resonate Networks: Data Scientist, innovative thinking to develop campaign optimization/targeting

Performing complex data analysis on large datasets to develop our campaign optimization and targeting algorithms. Do innovative thinking in the fast-paced start-up environment.

Western Union: Dir., Customer Analytics: understand key business challenges, set analytic direction

responsible for consulting with the global marketing teams and other global business units to understand key business challenges and opportunities, set key analytic direction, strategies and tactical plans.

Analytics Magazine: why healthcare analytics are critical

The current issue of INFORMS Analytics Magazine (Jan/Feb) focuses on healthcare analytics. Why embrace of analytics is crucial to the paradigm shift from "volume" to "value" and more.

Cablevision: Mgr, Analytics and Reporting, leadership for enterprise-wide reporting solutions

providing thought and directional leadership for enterprise-wide reporting solutions, which deepen the use of Analytics and MicroStrategy tools and broaden the use of new technologies for delivery of Cable and Communications STB reporting application.

Stevens MS in BI/Analytics is a 36 credit-degree, for students with a BA who want an analytics career

MS in BI and Analytics is a 36 credit-degree, designed for part/full-time students who have a BA in a technical field and want to pursue a career in analytics.

Yieldbot: Data Wrangler. Join a team working on hard problems on Big data, with bleeding-edge tools

Join an analytics team working on some of the hardest problems you'll encounter, on massive data sets, and using bleeding-edge tools to do it, such as Cascalog - a Clojure DSL tied to the Cascading API on Hadoop.

KONECT is a large collection of network datasets for research in the area of network mining

KONECT is a project to collect large network datasets to support research in the area of network mining. KONECT has over 100 datasets from sources such as arXiv, Amazon, Digg, DBLP, Enron, Flickr, Twitter, and Youtuve. KONECT also provides code to generate network datasets from the Web.

PredictivEdge: Sr. Developer (NLP/Big Data Aalytics), delivering solutions based on leading-edge tech

Looking for a talented, energetic individual with demonstrated excellence in delivering robust solutions based on leading-edge technologies in the field of social media analytics, natural language processing, cognitive & neuroscience.