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We are weeks away from the 18th International ACM SIGKDD Conference, KDD 2012! As we approach early bird registration for the conference, I wanted to take a minute and share with you the importance of the event and encourage you to take...
We live in the age of Big Data - the Second major revolution in modern civilization after the Industrial revolution: the Information Revolution. Big data is used to improve sales, reduce customer attrition, recommend movies, music,...
KDD In the News
2011-09-24 21:00
Traditionally, scientists and researchers develop the latest and greatest techniques in computing, which then trickle down corporate data centers where they’re relevant. But with big data — the process of analyzing voluminous quantities of data in new, unique ways — it’s the industry that’s driving innovation.
2011-08-15 21:00
...Twenty years ago, the only people who cared about so-called "big data"—the only ones who had enormous data sets and the motivation to try to process them—were members of the scientific community, says Usama Fayyad, executive chair of ACM's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and former chief data officer at Yahoo...