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Do states have the right to make doctors' prescription data private? Or do data-mining companies have the right to gather that data and sell it? These are the questions before the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow, as the justices hear arguments over Vermont's data-mining law. Drugmakers will be watching the case closely because they use that prescription data to market their drugs. But so will other industries that rely on data disclosure--as…

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In random order... My wife believes that my book choices are based on color, shape, texture, price per page, smell, thickness, decorative value, but really, I buy them (mostly) for content.

1. Handbook of Natural Language Processing - N. Indurkhya, F. Damerau -- CRC Press, 2010 (658 pp.)
2. Collective Intelligence - T. Segaran -- O'Reilly, 2007 (334 pp.)
3. Handbook of fitting statistical distributions with R - Z. Carian, E. Dudewicz - CRC Press, 2010 (1,672…

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1. They don't spend much time in developing traditional algorithms anymore (e.g. search engine). They don't reinvent the wheel, they re-use existing algorithms, even though they could do a better job by re-inventing these old algorithms. But they think at significantly improving existing algorithms (e.g. search engine), both from a business and technical point of view. Sometimes they even do a bit of hacking and reverse engineering.
2. They spend a lot of time identifying useful…

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n many cases, organizations are still struggling to get the return on investment in their digital analytics that they were originally hoping for or could reasonably expect. Ten years on from when Web analytics started to go mainstream, why is that still the case? If we look at the possible reasons, they tend to lie in the "triumvirate" of technology, people, and processes.

A lot of organizations have access to Web analytics technology and have invested in it heavily over the years.…

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As the global political & physical barriers are collapsing, all the global markets are getting opened for businesses, creating a fierce  competition within companies to market their products, increase their revenues, grab most of the customers. Organization are not just worried about the profitability but also survival in this tsunami of Global reach.



All along till now, Organizations were using business intelligence to get the information from the vast amount of data buried into… Continue

• Find patterns in…

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Physics

• Astrophysics (astro-ph new, recent, find)
  
  includes: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; …

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In 2010, the FBI reported that the total cost of insurance fraud in the United States exceeded $40 billion (USD).  Traditional methods of claims editing and adjudication systems, and even rules-driven fraud detection are limited.  Insurers who want to take a comprehensive approach to fraud management are adopting advanced analytics to identify new patterns and methods of fraud.

Register now and join FICO for a free webinar on…

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2011 Edelman Prize goes to Midwest ISO.  Midwest ISO is a energy management company and one of the largest in the world.

 

Press release here from INFORMS. 

 

From the press release...

"Every year, the Franz Edelman competition recognizes outstanding examples of operations research-based projects that have transformed companies, entire industries,…

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Hi folks, it's being an exciting adventure evaluating GenSTATS for teaching and learning, well to sum up I think it is a brilliant software especially for the teaching of statistics to undergraduates, first time programmers or students from other fileds such as public health and social sciences. The ease to navigate and the tips that appear at the landing page makes statistical computing appealing and unintimidating. I will be bloging on this some more as I receive more feedback…

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They include the Characterization of an Epidemic Spread, Cybersecurity and an Investigation into Criminal Activity.



See http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/vast11/



MINI CHALLENGE 1 : Geospatial and Microblogging - Characterization of an Epidemic Spread



MINI CHALLENGE 2 : Cybersecurity -  Situational Awareness in Computer Networks



MINI CHALLENGE 3:  Text Analytics - Investigation into Criminal… Continue

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Accused WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning installed and used unauthorized “data-mining software” on his SIPRnet workstation during the time he allegedly siphoned hundreds of thousands of documents off that classified network, the Army said Friday in response to inquiries from Threat Level.

Manning’s use of unauthorized software was the basis of two allegations filed against him this year in his pending court martial, but the charge sheet listing those allegations was silent on the…

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By Carl Bialik - The NumbersGuy blog on WSJ

My print column this week examines the concept of statistical significance — a concept that the Supreme Court recently weighed in on, but that remains elusive even to some scientists who use it to determine whether their experimental findings are worth…

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