Transcript KDD 08 - SIGKDD Explorations

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
Chair, SIGKDD
[email protected]
ACM Special Interest Group on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
www.SIGKDD.org
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What is Data Mining?
• Making sense of Data
• The Art and Science of finding useful patterns in data
• The non-trivial process of identifying valid, novel,
potentially useful and ultimately understandable
patterns in data (from 1996 book by Fayyad,
Piatetsky-Shapiro, Smyth).
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SIGKDD – what does it do?
• The Professional Society for Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery (ACM SIG)
• Organize the annual KDD Conference
– Co-sponsor WSDM - Web Search and Data Mining
– Support (in-cooperation) with other conf.
• ICUIMC, SPB, RECSYS, …
• Publish SIGKDD Explorations
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Awards
• Annual Awards:
– Innovation – the “Nobel” prize in Data Mining
– Service: Extraordinary Service to the community
– Outstanding Dissertation
• Other activities
– Data Mining Curriculum published
– Webcasts
– KDD-09 Social network – kdd09.crowdvine.com
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Our Goal:
– Facilitate Research in Data Mining
– Improve Industry – Academia Interaction
– Support Data Mining Community
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Agenda
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SIGKDD progress and Initiatives
KDD – 20 years after
TKDD report (Jiawei Han)
SIGKDD Explorations (Osmar Zaiane)
New SIGKDD Chair (Usama Fayyad)
KDD-10 in Washington, D.C. (?)
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Communicating KDD News
Visit www.KDnuggets.com
Subscribe to KDnuggets News (twice/month)
Follow
.com/kdnuggets
For Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery news
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20 Years After (Vingt ans après)
• 1989: KDD-89 – First Workshop on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining, Detroit (KDD Stone age)
Important research directions in 1989:
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Domain knowledge.
Dealing with Uncertainty
Efficiency.
Incremental Approaches.
Interactive Systems.
• Large Database in 1989: 1 MB
• Median Largest DB in 2009: 10 TB (KDnuggets poll)
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KDD Bronze age
• 1991, 93, 94 Workshops
• 1995: KDD-95 – First
Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining,
Montreal
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SIGKDD
• 1999: SIGKDD created
• Won Kim, Chair (1999-2005)
• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Chair (2005-2009)
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KDD Today – modern age
• 25 Data Mining / KDD conferences in 2009
– KDD, mainly US (sometimes Europe, ?)
– IEEE ICDM: rotates US/Asia/Europe
– SIAM SDM – US
• Regional
– ECML-PKDD - Europe
– PAKDD – Pacific Asia
• National: Australia, China, France
– Vendor conferences: SAS, SPSS, Salford, …
– Commercial conferences: Predictive Analytics World
• Many thousands of papers
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New Research Areas
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Social Networks
Text Mining
Mobile / geographic / sensor data
Privacy
Image/multi-media mining
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• Many deployed applications - embedded
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Term
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data mining
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experimental result
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social network
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learning algorithm
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machine learning
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recommender system
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search engine
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labeled data
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learning method
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training data
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collaborative filtering
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Top 2-word terms in
KDD-09 abstracts
- thanks to
Gabor Melli
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Analytics Surpassing Data Mining ?
(Google Trends)
www.kdnuggets.com/news/2009/n02/3i.html
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SIGKDD Membership
• Total membership as of June’09 is 1,161
• Membership overall steady, slight decline
– student membership slightly up in 2009
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SIGKDD vs SIGMOD vs SIGIR membership
All SIGS – 7% decline from 2000 to 2008
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SIGKDD vs SIGMOD vs SIGIR Student members
SIGKDD
Student
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slightly up in
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All SIG student members – 43% decline from 2000 to 2008
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Instant Poll
• Are you a SIGKDD Member?
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Big discount on KDD registration
Explorations hardcopy
Vote in next election
Belong to the largest KDD professional organization
• Cost: $25 ($15 / students)
• Join at www.SIGKDD.org
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Instant Poll
• Researcher (University, Lab)
• Student
• Industry/Government/Consultant
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KDD-09 in Paris
• Why Paris?
• Paris vaut bien une messe
–Henri IV
(Paris is worth it, despite a lot of messy
organization problems)
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Conference Attendance
KDD-09
764 as
of Jun 29
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USA
France
Germany
China
Belgium
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United Kingdom
Canada
Japan
Spain
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Netherlands
Slovenia
Israel
Finland
Italy
Singapore
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Switzerland
Australia
Brazil
Austria
Taiwan
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By Country
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Cash Balance of SIGKDD
$1 M as of June 30, 2009
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Crowdvine – KDD-09 Social network
• Feedback ?
• Many thanks to
– Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks)
– Sankar Virdhagriswaran (The Hartford)
– Kunal Punera (Yahoo)
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WSDM-2010 Call-for-Paper
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WSDM2010.org
• WSDM is a young ACM conference focused on Web search
and data mining. It has been sponsored by SIGKDD, SIGIR,
and SIGWEB.
– Submission deadline: Aug 13, 2009
– Notification: Oct 15, 2009
• Hope you will submit your papers!
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Report on ACM Transactions on
Knowledge Discovery from Data
Jiawei Han
Editor-in-Chief
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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SIGKDD
Explorations
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ACM SIGKDD Explorations
Official newsletter of the SIGKDD
community.
http://www.kdd.org/explorations
Editor-In-Chief :
Osmar R. Zaïane
Associate Editors:
Charu Aggarwal
Bart Goethals
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About SIGKDD Explorations
• We have two issues a year (typically June & December).
• All issues are available online
http://www.kdd.org/explorations/
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Submitted articles (reviewed)
Reports (workshops, kdd cup, and others)
Interviews
Selected KDD workshop papers
Book Reviews
Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts
Special issues guest edited
• Members get hard copy.
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 Upcoming Issues:
Special Issues
• Educational Data Mining (in negotiations) 06/10
• Visual Analytics &KD [Kai Puolamäki] 12/09
 Past Issues:
• Open Source Data Mining Software
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[R. Grossman] 07/09
Visual Analytics
[D. Keim, J. Schneidewind] 12/07
Data Mining for Health Informatics
[Raymond T. Ng, Jian Pei ] 06/07
Successful Real-World Data Mining Applications [G. Melli, O. R. Zaiane, B. Kitts ] 06/06
Link Mining
[L. Getoor and C. P. Diehl ] 12/05
Natural Language Processing and Text Mining
[Anne Kao, Steve Poteet ] 06/05
Web Content Mining
[B. Liu, K. C.-C. Chang ] 12/04
Learning from Imbalanced Datasets
[N. Chawla, N. Japkowicz, A. Kolcz ] 06/04
Microarray Data Mining
[G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Tamayo ] 12/03
Multi Relational Data Mining
[S. Dzeroski, L. De Raedt ] 06/03
Privacy and Security
[J. Gehrke] 12/02
Constraints in Data Mining
[R. Bayardo] 06/02
Online, Interactive, and Anytime Data Mining
[M. Zaki] 01/02
Scalable Data Mining
[K. Shim] 12/00
Internet Data Mining
[P. Bradley] 06/00
We invite…
Send to:
[email protected]
• Reports on competitions, panels, workshops:
– Deadline: Oct 23rd, 2009.
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Proposals for special issues.
Articles with industry and application focus.
Technical articles on the special issue
Position papers on controversial issues
Commentaries/notes requiring quick dissemination
Book reviews, Advertisements
PhD dissertation abstracts (2 pages)
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KDD-09 Transfer Meeting
• Tonight 7 pm, La Seine.
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SIGKDD Outgoing
Officers
2005-2009
Usama Fayyad,
Secretary/Treasurer
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro,
Chair
Directors
Robert
Grossman
David
Jensen
Jiawei
Han
Sunita
Sarawagi
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Raghu
Ramakrishnan
SIGKDD Newly
Elected Officers
Osmar Zaiane,
Secretary/Treasurer
Usama Fayyad, Chair
Directors
Johannes
Gehrke
Robert
Grossman
David
Jensen
Sunita
Sarawagi
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Raghu
R.
Ramakrishnan
Srikant