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• Knowledgent Named to Gartner’s Cool Vendors 2012 List – Aces Information … – PR Web (press release)

  Knowledgent Named to Gartner's Cool Vendors 2012 List – Aces Information … PR Web (press release) … value of information through more effective ways in organizing, mining, governing, and consuming information earned Knowledgent a spot on Gartner's prestigious Cool Vendors in Information Governance and Master Data Management (MDM) for 2012 list. and more »

• Dynamite Data, The State-Of-The-Art Provider Of Real-Time E-commerce Channel … – Sacramento Bee

  Dynamite Data, The State-Of-The-Art Provider Of Real-Time E-commerce Channel … Sacramento Bee Dynamite Data uses state-of-the-art data mining techniques to provide e-commerce data to leading manufacturers and merchants. Instead of using dated merchant-provided data "feeds", Dynamite Data's bots automatically extract real-time information from … and more »

• Los Angeles County Using SAS(R) to Spot Child Care Benefits Fraud, Conspiracies – MarketWatch (press release)

  Los Angeles County Using SAS(R) to Spot Child Care Benefits Fraud, Conspiracies MarketWatch (press release) Using fraud-fighting analytics and data mining tools from SAS, LA County uncovered more than 200 probable fraud cases and busted ongoing conspiracies to defraud the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Child Care benefits … and more »

• Western Pacific Receives Pegasus Drill Data – MarketWatch (press release)

  Western Pacific Receives Pegasus Drill Data MarketWatch (press release) (WRP – TSXV) is pleased to announce that we have received historical proprietary data compiled by Pegasus Mining for the Mineral Gulch property, formerly known as the Black Pine Mine. Included in the information are comprehensive drill-hole location … and more »

• MTech rank holder ready to mine deep! – IBNLive.com

  MTech rank holder ready to mine deep! IBNLive.com KOTTAYAM: As a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of Computer Science, data mining research offers immense scope for growth, said Sivadas P Nair, 42, the third-rank holder in the M.Tech examination conducted by the Mahatma Gandhi University, …

• Is big data just a fad, or something much more profound? – GigaOM

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  Is big data just a fad, or something much more profound? GigaOM Pazzani's quote was originally published in February 1999 and did not reference big data; it referenced knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). In the '90s, there was considerable excitement around KDD, a new field of analysis that seemed poised to …

• Big Oil Goes Mining for Big Data – Technology Review

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  Big Oil Goes Mining for Big Data Technology Review Oil companies are using distributed sensors, high-speed communications, and data-mining techniques to monitor and fine-tune remote drilling operations. The aim is to use real-time data to make better decisions and predict glitches. and more »

• Political parties mining Arizona voters’ personal data – AZ Central.com

  Political parties mining Arizona voters' personal data AZ Central.com The statute also requires counties to give "any other" public information about the voter that is electronically maintained by the county, city or town clerk, as well as "all data" relating to permanent and non-permanent early voters, including their … and more »

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• Healthcare organizations can leverage data mining … – Experian QAS

  Healthcare organizations can leverage data mining … Experian QAS As healthcare organizations and processes become more complex and integrate with innovative technologies, administrators can use data mining to make predictive analyses of trends that can positively affect return on investment and customer relations. and more »

• Twitter Can’t Predict Elections Either – iProgrammer

  Twitter Can't Predict Elections Either iProgrammer Using social network data to judge public opinion and specifically to predict the outcome of elections seems as it if is a rock solid data mining application, but is it? Twitter data has been used to predict election results so often that we tend to … and more »

• Using Data Mining to Predict Epidemics Before They Spread – The Atlantic

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  Using Data Mining to Predict Epidemics Before They Spread The Atlantic As companies capture more and more information about your activities online, what firms can do with that data and who they can share it with are becoming battlegrounds for rights activists, intellectual property holders, and others.

• Banks and miners fall on US job fears – Financial Times

  Banks and miners fall on US job fears Financial Times By Michael Hunter The FTSE 100's drop below 5800 points gathered pace on Wednesday after weak US private sector jobs data stoked worry about the country's recovery. The biggest losses were seen in the heavyweight banking and mining sectors after the … and more »

• MIDCAP-Philippines’ Philex Mining most expensive on valuations – Reuters

  MIDCAP-Philippines' Philex Mining most expensive on valuations Reuters Philippine's Philex Mining Corp looks expensive on valuations among 38 stocks in the country, data from Thomson Reuters StarMine shows. The data includes companies tracked by at least three analysts. Philex Mining trades at more than twice its … and more »

• Miners strength offsets banking sector losses – The Australian

  Miners strength offsets banking sector losses The Australian Better than expected US manufacturing data help push the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its best level in more than four years overnight, and set the positive tone for the Australian session. Manufacturing activity also picked up in China. and more »

• Choose Privacy Week: ACLU’s Mike German on Freedom from Surveillance – Network World

  Choose Privacy Week: ACLU's Mike German on Freedom from Surveillance Network World The ACLU's Mike German discusses 'Data Mining, Government Surveillance, and Civil Liberties' in the first 'Freedom from Surveillance' video series. By Ms. Smith on Tue, 05/01/12 – 4:23pm. Did you know this is Choose Privacy Week? and more »

• Google Street View Data Mining Not Due to A "Rogue" Engineer – Care2.com (blog)

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  Google Street View Data Mining Not Due to A "Rogue" Engineer Care2.com (blog) As Tech Crunch observes, the company, quite eager to put the matter behind it and avoid Street View gate, said that “data mining was 'inadvertent' and that Google now has stricter privacy controls than in the past.” Collecting the data was all a … FCC points to rogue Google engineer over Street View Wi-Fi snoopingWashington Post all 499 news articles »

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• Eight Problems With “Big Data” – American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)

  Eight Problems With “Big Data” American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog) Such data mining has been called “the macroscope” – like a telescope or microscope, making things visible to us that have never been visible before. In many ways Big Data is just a new buzzword for data mining, which we and others have been grappling … and more »

• Centrica uses Teradata’s data warehouse appliance – Finding Petroleum

  Centrica uses Teradata's data warehouse appliance Finding Petroleum It will use it to integrate and centralise its data. It has also purchased the "Teradata Logical Data Model for the Utilities Industry" and the "Teradata Analytical Applications for Customer Management and Data Mining." Centrica spent 12 months … Centrica implements new data analytics warehouseComputerworldUK all 9 news articles »

• Column – Facebook users should be wary of company’s data mining – Daily Athenaeum

  Column – Facebook users should be wary of company's data mining Daily Athenaeum Lori Andrews from the New York Times even reported some people have had to defend themselves against data mined online in both criminal and child custody cases, and this information is often lumped into unfounded groups that can be established with … and more »

• Markets Live: Stocks edge higher – Sydney Morning Herald

  Markets Live: Stocks edge higher Sydney Morning Herald 4.52pm: Cyclical stocks were among the better performers today, with Stockland up 2.6 per cent, benefiting from the data and the chance of a cut in rates. The world's third biggest gold producer, Newcrest Mining, bucked the trend, dropping 3.7 per cent … and more »

• Radius: How Facebook’s Youngest Hire Is Tackling The Local Data Problem – Forbes

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  Radius: How Facebook's Youngest Hire Is Tackling The Local Data Problem Forbes Jane is a perfect example of why Shirazi, who is 25 years old, is out touting his newly debuted data-mining startup Radius. Shirazi was Facebook's youngest hire years ago. He started at the social networking firm as an early intern when he was still in … and more »

• Mobiltel Develops CRM Customer Models with Teradata In-database Data Mining – MarketWatch (press release)

  Mobiltel Develops CRM Customer Models with Teradata In-database Data Mining MarketWatch (press release) Good analytic modeling requires the ability to test models quickly using large data sets and is used to initiate highly targeted marketing campaigns based on customer attributes. The integration of the data mining process by IBM SPSS Modeler with the … and more »

• RandomForests(R) Data Mining Software Used in Real-World Case Analyzing How … – MarketWatch (press release)

  RandomForests(R) Data Mining Software Used in Real-World Case Analyzing How … MarketWatch (press release) SAN DIEGO, Apr 23, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — RandomForests(R) Co-Developer Dr. Adele Cutler is presenting a case study of archetypal analysis of dietary patterns related to memory and aging at the Salford Analytics and Data Mining Conference. and more »

• Are Data-Mining and Advertising Stripping Language of its Meaning? – AlterNet

  Are Data-Mining and Advertising Stripping Language of its Meaning? AlterNet The questions arise from the accelerating data-streams out of which we've learned to draw the breath of life, posed in consultation with the equipment that scans the flesh and tracks the spirit, cues the ATM, the GPS, and the EKG, arranges the … and more »

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• Data mining opens the door to predictive neuroscience – Science Codex

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  Data mining opens the door to predictive neuroscience Science Codex And when they added in a subset of data about the ion channels to the classification data, as input to their data-mining programme, they were able to boost that accuracy to 87 per cent for the more commonly occurring neuronal types. and more »

• Listening In: Big Ideas About Big Data – Smart Data Collective

  Listening In: Big Ideas About Big Data Smart Data Collective National Public Radio is not the most obvious place for a deep dive on “The New World of Massive Data Mining,” so it may have surprised listeners when the April 2 edition of Diane Rehm's popular NPR discussion program devoted an hour to just that topic …

• Kontagent Brings Hive Data Mining to the Cloud for Social/Mobile App Developers – SDTimes.com

  Kontagent Brings Hive Data Mining to the Cloud for Social/Mobile App Developers SDTimes.com Hive is powering kSuite DataMine, a just-released data mining tool for Kontagent's kSuite social/mobile app analytics platform. The new DataMine solution is 100% hosted with all data loading and other setup requirements handled by Kontagent, … and more »

• Blogger in spotlight for outing reporters – Sydney Morning Herald

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  Blogger in spotlight for outing reporters Sydney Morning Herald Paul Staines, who blogs as Guido Fawkes, published the names of 35 reporters and editors at News Corp's British titles who paid Steve Whittamore, the private eye at the centre of a 2003 probe into illegal data-mining. He included details of more than … Hacked Off: Motorman data leaks are 'inevitable'Journalism.co.uk all 358 news articles »

• Kontagent Brings Hive Data Mining to the Cloud for Social/Mobile App Developers – Sacramento Bee

  Kontagent Brings Hive Data Mining to the Cloud for Social/Mobile App Developers Sacramento Bee Hive is powering kSuite DataMine™, a just-released data mining tool for Kontagent's kSuite social/mobile app analytics platform. The new DataMine solution is 100% hosted with all data loading and other setup requirements handled by Kontagent, … Kontagent announces kSuite DataMine to enable better actionable dataPocket Gamer.Biz all 10 news articles »

• Real-time big data mining from TIBCO – KMWorld Magazine

  Real-time big data mining from TIBCO KMWorld Magazine TIBCO has introduced ActiveSpaces 2.0, which, the company says, is designed to mine real-time digital, social and event streams together with business transactions and other traditional data sources to improve decision-making. The new software is built … and more »

• Instagram turned over to enormous data mining operation – TechEye

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  Instagram turned over to enormous data mining operation TechEye Following the announcement, Instagram fans began to panic that their data and posts would no longer be private, with many looking at other free apps, including Streamzoo, to migrate to. According to industry experts they may be justified in doing so. Instagram and Facebook… bad for everyoneExaminer.com Of course Facebook's going to change InstagramITworld.com How to leave InstagramNew York Daily News Huffington Post -Chicago Sun-Times -Death and Taxes all 3,439 news articles »

• 5 Ways to Leverage Data Mining to Build an Efficient Business Office – Becker’s Hospital Review

  5 Ways to Leverage Data Mining to Build an Efficient Business Office Becker’s Hospital Review The advanced business intelligence technology — data mining — allows healthcare systems to use their own data to proactively identify mistakes that lead to lost revenue, reduced cash flow, and unnecessary spending on manual processes.

• Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter – Ars Technica

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  Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter Ars Technica Another feed, with limited availability, is called the "Gardenhose' and provides about 10 percent of tweets, making it more suitable for data mining. The Firehose returns all public tweets, billions each month. The Dataminr stack includes Hadoop for … Real-time data mining comes to TwitterInfosecurity Magazine all 17 news articles »

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• Earthquake Prediction Through Sunspots Part II: common Data Mining Mistakes! – Smart Data Collective

  Earthquake Prediction Through Sunspots Part II: common Data Mining Mistakes! Smart Data Collective Don't always trust your data: often they are not homogeneous. In the post I put in relation the quakes in the range time between [~1800,1999] with the respective sunspots distribution. A good data miner must always check his dataset! you should always …

• Data Mining for a New American World – Truthdig

  Data Mining for a New American World Truthdig He wrote a piece for Wired magazine on a super-secret, $2 billion, one-million-square-foot data center the NSA is building in Bluffdale, Utah. Focused on data mining and code-breaking and five times the size of the US Capitol, it is expected to house … and more »

• Oracle Makes Its Big Play For Analytics Leadership – InformationWeek

  Oracle Makes Its Big Play For Analytics Leadership InformationWeek The Advanced Analytics product bolsters Oracle Data Mining and steps solidly into SAS's home turf. Wednesday's announcements include a significant upgrade of the Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platform; two new Oracle Business … and more »

• The prize is right for the 13th DATA MINING CUP – Your-Story.org (press release)

  The prize is right for the 13th DATA MINING CUP Your-Story.org (press release) The tasks for the 13th edition of the world's largest data mining competition have been published today. This year the international participants will face the challenge of two tasks relating to dynamic price optimisation. prudsys will publish who are …

• Data mining you – Asia Times Online

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  Data mining you Asia Times Online He wrote a piece for Wired magazine on a super-secret, US$2 billion, one-million-square-foot data center the NSA is building in Bluffdale, Utah. Focused on data mining and code-breaking and five times the size of the US Capitol, it is expected to house … Data Mining You How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American WorldDemocratic Underground all 16 news articles »

• Polygraph mines Facebook Pages for stats on you and competitors – AGBeat

  Polygraph mines Facebook Pages for stats on you and competitors AGBeat by Lani Rosales on April 4, 2012 · 17 Comments · in Austin, Social Media Seeking to solve some of social media's biggest problems, Polygraph is making enterprise level data mining intelligence available to businesses of all size from the lone pro to …

• Miners push stocks lower – The Australian

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  Miners push stocks lower The Australian AUSTRALIAN shares eased today, led lower by industrial stocks, while defensive names outperformed amid more weak domestic data. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index lost 0.4 per cent to 4319.40, with week-to-date losses at 0.4 per cent and year-to-date … Miners pull market higherBrisbane Times Australia shares slip after surprise trade deficitThe Malaysian Insider Gloomy data erases strong early gainsSydney Morning Herald Herald Sun -The Age all 297 news articles »

• Big Data Poses Big Challenges In Mining Information – Investor’s Business Daily

  Big Data Poses Big Challenges In Mining Information Investor’s Business Daily The amount of data being generated today will double in two years, tech observers say, driven partly by the explosion in social networks and use of smartphones and mobile devices. This proliferation of data gives businesses the possibility of mining … and more »

• Opera Aims to Balance Privacy, Data Mining in Apps – Wireless Week

  Opera Aims to Balance Privacy, Data Mining in Apps Wireless Week By Andrew Berg Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Mobile browser maker Opera Software today announced a solution that aims at protecting privacy, while also allowing advertisers to mine user data. Opera launched App-Tribute via its advertising subsidiaries … and more »

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