AnalyticBridge

If you prefer LinkedIn rather than Facebook (because it is a more serious network) and if you are interested in data mining (you should if you are reading this blog), then the AnalyticBridge network is certainly for you. Vincent Granville has just created a new social network for people working in statistics, data mining, BI or any other field related to analytic.

Here is a list of keywords, from AnalyticBridge, describing the network focus:

• Biostats
  
• Statistics
  
• Econometrics
  
• Computational finance
  
• Data mining
  
• Business intelligence
  
• Computer science
  
• Operations research
  
• SAS
  
• Maths
  
• Risk management
  
• Market research
  
• Six sigma
  
• Web analytics.

Appart from keeping in touch with colleagues in the field, this network can be very usefull for discovering people working in your field or finding a job.

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Data mining jobs in Europe

KDnuggets is certainly the best place to find a data mining job in US. Several opportunities are often updated. In addition, external links are given to find data mining jobs using other websites. But what about jobs in Europe? To my knowledge, there is no website specialized on data mining jobs in Europe. Of course, websites such as DataShaping can be used, since they contain such offers. However, it seems US is better covered than Europe through, for example, KDnuggets.

Thus, I have an open question to Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro: Why is there no job offers covering Europe on KDnuggets? It would be interesting to know the percentage of European vs. US readers of KDnuggets. If this percentage is not too small, it may be meaningful to propose job offers in Europe. However, the problem is perhaps that no companies send email to KDnuggets concerning job offers in Europe. This post is an open discussion to the above mentioned issue, and you are all invited to give your opinion.

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