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See the ACM site for full details, and to share topics you are interested in for the un-conference. Optional $20 to join the SF Bay ACM for the year. 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 • Problem identification - best customers/prod GOLD SPONSOR: REvolution Computing - Open source products and servinces for high performance analytics. KXEN - Knowledge Extraction Engines - The leading provider of automated data mining software and customer analytic solutions. LinkedIn - Over 50 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities APPROXIMATE SCHEDULE 12:00 Arrive, name tags, network, brainstorm discussion topics with others, eat 12:45 Main session starts, overview of the day 1:00 Panel of experts answering questions from the audience 1:30 Gold Sponsor & Dojo presentations 1:50 Audience members line up to suggest discussion topics to the room. If a minimum threshold of people are interested in the topic, then it gets a discussion slot We can have 6+ concurrent discussion slots per time slot Recommend for each discussion a primary facilitator and a note taker to report at the end 2:30 Time Slot 1 (many concurrent sessions) 3:30 Time Slot 2 ( “ “ “ ) 4:30 Time Slot 3 5:30 Time Slot 4 6:30 Report summary of sessions over food & drinks in the main area, networking 7:30 Camp organizers invite any help in picking up after the free unconference