Most popular KDnuggets tweets
(see twitter.com/kdnuggets ) for May 30 - Jun 4 were
- For data scientists: Peter Thiel on Luck vs Skill: You Are Not A Lottery Ticket bit.ly/KThGFj
- The Database Revolution - great research paper by Mark Madsen and Robin Bloor: old SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, and beyond bit.ly/KW8Kiy
- Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Science & Engineering (PDF) bit.ly/LqQGfp
- 10gen, #BigData startup, maker of MongoDB noSQL open-source DB, raises $42M on a $500M Valuation read.bi/LfhqQ8
- Massachusetts, MIT and Intel Big Data Initiatives bit.ly/LLc9yX
- Does It Take a Scientist to Find Gold in #BigData? Views from Alex Yoder, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and more bit.ly/L62l2H
- Notes from Peter Thiel Start-up Class at Stanford, Spring 2012 - must read for every entrepreneur bit.ly/LS1wdz
- Knight Data Challenge: $5M to fund innovative ideas for making big data understandable and actionable bit.ly/NzvlSQ
- PhD and Postdoc positions in Machine Learning, U. of Hildesheim, Germany bit.ly/L8icjR
- Data scientist predicts Eurovision results based on country politics, gets better results those who listen to songs bit.ly/JzzVNq
- Google F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business, In SIGMOD 2012 bit.ly/LWW2BV
- US Gov CTO Todd Park is Giving Away Really #BigData; US Gov to make key datasets public tcrn.ch/JPioXQ
- Will #BigData Flop like CRM? No, but there is plenty of hot air in that bubble onforb.es/KXln9M
- Dilbert on Virtualizing the process and moving to the cloud - brilliant vsb.li/75LTJ6