Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 4-7: Why data scientists won't be replaced by tools; Alex Pentland on Big Data Biggest Obstacles

Why data scientists will not be replaced by tools; Alex Pentland on #BigData Biggest Obstacles: Correlation, Human Understanding, Data; More data beats better algorithms, but better questions beat more data; Study: 40% of mobile ad clicks are useless: 22% are accidental, 18% are fraud

Most popular KDnuggets tweets
(see twitter.com/kdnuggets ) for Oct 4-7 were

Will Data Scientists Be Replaced by Tools? No, because a big part of Data Science isn't technology, but sociology bit.ly/R2ZQRY
MIT's Alex Pentland on #BigData Biggest Obstacles: Correlation, Human Understanding, Data Silos, and Privacy bit.ly/PgtmrL
On getting value from data and analytics: More data beats better algorithms, but better questions beat more data
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
Study: 40% of mobile ad clicks are useless: 22% are accidental, 18% are fraud bit.ly/Q1ewRR
Death of "Big Data" buzzword predicted (it will need a big casket). Big Data will become the norm onforb.es/Wz7XJN
Graduate Programs in Big Data Analytics and Data Science bit.ly/Vls4gr ; see also KDnuggets Analytics Education bit.ly/Q7inQb
What did FourSquare find from 100M+ check-ins in New York City? Great talk and viz by 4square data scientist bit.ly/RgwOih
Harvard Business Review on Big Data - Steve Miller reviews bit.ly/QYQ06I
Ajay Ohri forthcoming Book: R for Business Analytics - Try it online bit.ly/VzNUv9
Data Scientist jobs hiding under less sexy titles ("Data mining" jobs are a lot more frequent than "Data Scientist") bit.ly/VGCOoh

Funny?
@BigDataBorat Rumor say Obama #bigdata initiative stall when Michelle Obama ban use of pie chart. Brocolli chart not prove popular.