Our newsletter has four sections, separated by horizontal lines: Announcements, Message From The Editor, Best Blogs, and Job Ads.

1. Announcements

• Data Mining Courses from The Modeling Agency - Predictive Analytics & Data Mining: Model Development & Strategic Implementation ( July 9 - 13 NYC Area | Aug 20 - 24 San Jose, CA) -- 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.
• Predictive Analytics Webinar from The Modeling Agency - Data Mining: Failure to Launch ( Free Event: July 17 | August 15 ) - Learn how to get Predictive Analytics and Data Mining 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.
• Advanced Analytics for the Modern Business Analyst (from SAS Education) offers dynamic, instructor-led Live Web sessions that include reading assignments, hands-on exercises and discussion forums. Delivered over a period of six weeks, you will learn the basics of data management, decision trees, logistic regression, segmentation, design of experiments and forecasting. Think of this as a “how to solve problems with data analysis” class. It is like having that extra semester of graduate training you wish had been offered. Save $390 when you register for remaining 2012 classes. Use promo code BRIDGE10 when registering. View full course details and secure registration.
• 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.
• Predictive Analytics World Sept 30 – Oct 4 in Boston is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders, including keynote speakers. Click here for details and to register.
• View videos from the 2012 Data Science Summit- Data Science Summit brings together thought leaders from academia, the social enterprise, start-ups, and the public sector to help attendees explore and define their path forward in the new, data-driven world. Through data mining, statistics, advanced analytics and innovative visualizations, data scientists are drawing insights from the abundance of structured and unstructured data.
• From our Lavastorm analytics partner: We are building our Lavastorm Analytics Community Group on LinkedIn and would like to invite you to join us. Our membership is comprised of analytic experts, professionals, executives, students and customers of Lavastorm products and others interested in the topics around analytics. Analyticbridge is a regular contributor, and you will find some of our best discussions on Lavastorm's group.
• Big Data Innovation, September 13 & 14, Boston, 2012 - The Big Data Innovation Summit is the largest gathering of Fortune 500 business executives leading Big Data initiatives.

2. Message From The Editor

• Visit and join our two new LinkedIn subgroups: Greenplum: Data Science Group and Operations Research.
• 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.
• In the next few days, we will realease our first reports featuring insights and trends regarding the data science community: places attracting more and more talent, places where executives are found, top cities for anaytic professionals, new trends and popular keywords, and much more.
• Miscellaneous
  • To become a Certified Analytic / Data Science Professional (CAP / CDSP), join our Certified Analytics LinkedIn group. Applications are reviewed within 2-3 days, approvals are based on your bio, and there is no cost, no exam.
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3. Selected News and Contributions

• Debunking lack of analytic talent (2,300 views, 24 comments)
• Eight reasons not to be insured (1,600 views, 30 comments)
• Comparison on RapidMiner, SAS Enterprise Miner, R and orange (700 views, 11 comments)
• Multinomial Logistic Regression Predicting Cluster Membership (600 views, 13 comments)
• Can you name 10 famous data scientist women? (600 views, 9 comments)
• Data scientists: an old boys club? (500 views)
• Comparison on Tableau, Qlikview and Omniscope (400 views, 5 comments)
• MapReduce, Hadoop, Analytics, Big Data in Astronomy, Biology, Pharm...
• History, Evolution and Classification of Programming Languages
• Who is hiring data scientists?
• SAS Enterprise Guide: Writing Code to Capture New Twitter Followers
• 5 Specific Questions to ask before embarking on a Big Data Project
• Call for chapter-IGI global
• Confessions of a Serial Analyst - A LatentView Short Film
• SVM random forest and or dimension reduction
• Four innovative ideas to optimize business processes
• Dashboard Confessions: The Sins of Satisfaction
• Logistics regression-ROC curve
• Handbook of Engineering Statistics
• Fraud detection in Medicaid / Medicare

4. Job Section

• Featured job ads: Click here to read the job description and to apply.
  • Director, Modeling and Customer Analytics (New York, NY)
  • Data Scientist - Amazon (Edinburgh, UK)
  • Statistical Consultant III - Equifax (Atlanta, GA)
  • Data Scientist - Collective (New York, NY)
  • Quantitative Analyst - BridgePoint (San Diego, CA)
  • Senior Data Analyst - McKinsey (New York, NY | Chicago, IL)
  • Reseller Operations Analyst - Apple (Cupertino, CA)
  • Actuarial Modeler, Predictive Modeling - Great West Casualty (South Sioux City, NE)
  • Business Technology Specialist - American Family Insurance (Madison, WI)
  • Predictive Modeler - GuideOne Insurance (West Des Moines, IA)
  • Technical/Targeting Analyst - CIA (Washington, DC)
  • Data Scientist - CIA (Washington, DC )
  • Sales Engineer - Angoss (Toronto, Canada)
  • E-Merchandising Project Manager - Peapod (Skokie. IL)
  • Manager, Advanced Analytics - Deloitte (US, US)
  • Chief Data Scientist - Allazo Health (Telecommute, US)
  • Director, Advanced Analytics (Columbus, OH)
  • Senior Scientist, Healthcare Statistician - (Easton, MD)
  • Data Scientist - Quantcast (San Francisco, CA)
  • Senior Data Scientist - Netflix (Los Gatos, CA)
  • Development Analyst - Blue Health Intelligence (Chicago, IL)
  • Mobile Apps Analyst - Facebook (Menlo Park, CA)
  • Analytics Engineers - Facebook (Menlo Park, CA)
  • HRCP Analytics Specialist - McKinsey & Company (Greater New York, NY | Greater Chicago, IL)
  • @WalmartLabs - Data Scientists, 40 openings (San Francisco, CA)
  • Analytic/Forensic Professionnals - Deloitte (US, US)
  • Analytics Solutions Architect - Predixion (Telecommute, US)
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