Top KDnuggets tweets, Jun 18-20: European Big Data Companies; How Data Became Big

• What are the European Big Data Companies bit.ly/NLHWGH
• How Data Became Big: history of quantifying the data growth, by @GilPress bit.ly/MmNSRi
• In India, Data scientists being hired in droves, command premium over software engineers bit.ly/LwQlZS
• Moneyball for Basketball: Using Data Science to Change the NBA bit.ly/NFFn91
• European Big Data Companies @LutzFinger @mikaelhuss @BrianAtSumerian @alex_mikhalev @atveit @aghilmort @HAStark @ds_ldn bit.ly/PkdlwP
• Top 3 Reasons You Need a Chief Data Officer bit.ly/MkeKUC
• Jill Tarter, in charge of SETI project, retires after 20+ years waiting for ET to phone nyti.ms/KId1tL
• ISMIS 2012 Data Mining on Linked Data Challenge: research and analysis on RDF data on Public Contract Procurement bit.ly/M1WoIE
• See how connections and sentiment of the world changes from 1800 to day in Wikipedia: youtu.be/KmCQVIVpzWg
• Real-time Hadoop? Real-time analytics provider HStreaming partners with Cloudera bit.ly/PasTDc
• Could Data Science Reduce Resume Overload? Startup analyzes millions of resumes, jobs to find matches bit.ly/NV4zZ7
• Review from @DataMiningBlog: Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - a must if you use MSFT tools bit.ly/NLarUU

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In honor of Alan Turing 100th Birthday (Jun 15, 2012): Turing Test Extra Credit - convince the examiner that he is a computer xkcd.com/329/