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Gregory Piatetsky-ShapiroChair, SIGKDD
ACM Special Interest Group onKnowledge Discovery and Data Mining
www.SIGKDD.org
KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009
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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KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009
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
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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KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009
Agenda• 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. (?)
Communicating KDD 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:
– 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 papersKDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009
New Research Areas• Social Networks• Text Mining• Mobile / geographic / sensor data• Privacy• Image/multi-media mining• …
• Many deployed applications - embedded
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Top 2-word terms in KDD-09 abstracts
- thanks to Gabor Melli
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Term Count
data mining 18
experimental result 15
social network 13
learning algorithm 7
machine learning 7
recommender system 7
search engine 7
labeled data 6
learning method 6
training data 6
collaborative filtering 5
Analytics Surpassing Data Mining ?(Google Trends)
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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
SIGKDD vs SIGMOD vs SIGIR membership
KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009All SIGS – 7% decline from 2000 to 2008
SIGKDD vs SIGMOD vs SIGIR Student members
KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009All SIG student members – 43% decline from 2000 to 2008
SIGKDDStudent members slightly up in 2009
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Instant Poll• Are you a SIGKDD Member?• Benefits
– 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
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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KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009
Conference Attendance
KDD-09764 as of Jun 29
By Country
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USA 271France 112Germany 58China 36Belgium 27
United Kingdom 27Canada 18Japan 16Spain 14
Netherlands 13Slovenia 13Israel 11Finland 9Italy 9Singapore 9
Switzerland 9Australia 8Brazil 8Austria 7Taiwan 7
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Cash Balance of SIGKDD
$1 M as of June 30, 2009
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 HanEditor-in-Chief
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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SIGKDD Explorations
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ACM SIGKDD ExplorationsOfficial newsletter of the SIGKDD community.
Editor-In-Chief :
Associate Editors:
http://www.kdd.org/explorations
Bart Goethals
Charu Aggarwal
Osmar R. Zaïane
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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/• Contains
– 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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Special Issues Upcoming Issues:
• Educational Data Mining (in negotiations) 06/10• Visual Analytics &KD [Kai Puolamäki] 12/09
Past Issues: • Open Source Data Mining Software [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…
• Reports on competitions, panels, workshops:– Deadline: Oct 23rd, 2009.
• 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)
Send to:[email protected]
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KDD-09 Transfer Meeting• Tonight 7 pm, La Seine.
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KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009
SIGKDD Outgoing Officers
2005-2009
Robert Grossman
Jiawei Han
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Chair
Usama Fayyad, Secretary/Treasurer
Directors
Sunita Sarawagi
David Jensen
Raghu Ramakrishnan
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SIGKDD Newly Elected Officers
Robert Grossman
JohannesGehrke
Usama Fayyad, Chair Osmar Zaiane, Secretary/Treasurer
Directors
Sunita Sarawagi
David Jensen
Raghu Ramakrishnan
R.
Srikant