Top KDnuggets tweets, July 16-18: Fantastic tutorial: Social Media Analysis; Top 10 Big data sources, methods

Fantastic tutorial: Social Media Analysis with Twitter and Python; Top 10 Big data sources and their DM methods; SAS CEO Jim Goodnight on Analytics, Big Data, competition; NYU Prof. Vasant Dhar: What does Data Science mean?

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Fantastic tutorial: The Art of Social Media Analysis with Twitter and Python slidesha.re/NctZAY
Top 10 Big data sources and their data mining methods zd.net/Ls5FoH
SAS CEO Jim Goodnight talks about Analytics, Big Data, competition from IBM, SAP. SAS was designed for #BigData bit.ly/MrBuk3
NYU Professor Vasant Dhar on Data Science and Prediction - What does Data Science mean? bit.ly/Oci0kO
Oracle data mining tutorial, data mining techniques: classification - useful bit.ly/NzVYYx
Applications of R at Google: forecasting, ad optimization; Integrated w. FlumeJava for TB scale data analysis #rstats bit.ly/LywHj3
DARPA Innovation House Study, how to efficiently find useful information from visual and geospatial #BigData . bit.ly/NcEjc0
Ajay Ohri on Big Data and Big Analytics using R and more slidesha.re/MyOmlV
A Profile of Pete Skomoroch, Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn bit.ly/MrqlPW
Ethics of Big Data: 4 question framework to avoid creepiness bit.ly/OneofR

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