Un-Conference, Free Event
LOGISTICS:

* Date: Sunday, November 1
* Time: 12:30 to 7:00 pm
* Location: Hacker’s Dojo 140A South Whisman Rd Mountain View, CA 94041 http://hackerdojo.pbw...
o WiFi is available, you can twitter
* Free Parking: Around the Dojo – http://hackerdojo.pbw...
* Beverages, Snacks included with RSVP
* RSVP: http://bit.ly/VpL1Y...

* blogging and topic suggestions at http://www.sfbayacm.o...
o (include topics of interest to you on the ACM site, see below for ideas)
* Questions, feedback, coordination: Greg Makowski, [masked], www.LinkedIn.com/in/GregMakowski; Tricia Hoffmann hoffman.tricia@gmail

POSSIBLE TOPICS that may be proposed:

* Introduction to data mining, how to get started, FAQ
* Challenges in vertical market X (internet advertising, medical, green tech, finance, marketing, retail, …)
* Discuss algorithm X (Support Vector Machines, TreeNet, NaïveBayes, Clustering, outlier detection, text mining)
* Bring your challenges to brainstorm on current projects with experts
* Netflix $1,000,000 data mining competition, presentation of collaborative filtering papers by Yehuda Koren from Greg Makowski
* New developments in R and the Windows IDE – presented by David of REvolution Computing
* Data Mining forecasting of stock market data
* PLANET – Parallel Learner for Assembling Numerous Ensemble Trees – developed by the Google AdWords group
* Using Concurrent to organize Map Reduce (Hadoop) jobs in the Cloud
* Cloud computing and data mining / analytics
* Challenges and architectures to automate and embed data mining in software or web applications
* Semantic Web
* Artificial Intelligence

APPROXIMATE SCHEDULE

* 12:30 – 1:00 arrive, name tags, network, brainstorm discussion topics with others
* 1:00 – 1:10 Main session starts, introduction and overview to the day
* 1:10 – 1:30 Panel of experts answering questions from the audience
* 1:30 – 1:35 Gold Sponsor presentation from Revolution Computing
* 1:35+ Audience members line up to suggest discussion topics to the roo