Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro Chair, SIGKDD ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 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). 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 KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

Our Goal: – Facilitate Research in Data Mining – Improve Industry – Academia Interaction – Support Data Mining Community 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 Visit Subscribe to KDnuggets News (twice/month) Follow For Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery news KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009.com/kdnuggets

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) KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

KDD Bronze age 1991, 93, 94 Workshops 1995: KDD-95 – First Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Montreal KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

SIGKDD 1999: SIGKDD created Won Kim, Chair ( ) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Chair ( ) KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

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 KDD-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 KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

Top 2-word terms in KDD-09 abstracts - thanks to Gabor Melli KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009 TermCount data mining18 experimental result15 social network13 learning algorithm7 machine learning7 recommender system7 search engine7 labeled data6 learning method6 training data6 collaborative filtering5

Analytics Surpassing Data Mining ? (Google Trends) KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30,

KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009 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, 2009 All SIGS – 7% decline from 2000 to 2008

SIGKDD vs SIGMOD vs SIGIR Student members KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009 All SIG student members – 43% decline from 2000 to 2008 SIGKDD Student members slightly up in 2009

KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009 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

KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009 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) KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

Conference Attendance KDD as of Jun 29

By Country KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009 USA271 France112 Germany58 China36 Belgium27 United Kingdom27 Canada18 Japan16 Spain14 Netherlands13 Slovenia13 Israel11 Finland9 Italy9 Singapore9 Switzerland9 Australia8 Brazil8 Austria7 Taiwan7

KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009 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) KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

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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! 26

Report on ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data Jiawei Han Editor-in-Chief University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

SIGKDD Explorations KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

ACM SIGKDD Explorations Official newsletter of the SIGKDD community. Editor-In-Chief : Associate Editors: Bart Goethals Charu Aggarwal Osmar R. Zaïane KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

About SIGKDD Explorations We have two issues a year (typically June & December). All issues are available online 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. KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

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 23 rd, 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: KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

KDD-09 Transfer Meeting Tonight 7 pm, La Seine. KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009

SIGKDD Outgoing Officers Robert Grossman Jiawei Han Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Chair Usama Fayyad, Secretary/Treasurer Directors Sunita Sarawagi David Jensen Raghu Ramakrishnan

KDD-09 Business Meeting, Jun 30, 2009 SIGKDD Newly Elected Officers Robert Grossman Johannes Gehrke Usama Fayyad, Chair Osmar Zaiane, Secretary/Treasurer Directors Sunita Sarawagi David Jensen Raghu Ramakrishnan R. Srikant