Top KDnuggets tweets, July 26-29: Data Science definition; Dilbert on Big Data; Olympics forecasts

My definition of Data Science; Dilbert on #BigData: If we accept Big Data as our savior, we will be saved; Winning time forecast for 100m, London Olympics; 4 Excellent Big Data Case Studies; Authors of "Data Mining In Excel" respond

Most popular KDnuggets tweets
(see twitter.com/kdnuggets ) for July 26-29 were

People ask me what is Data Science, so here goes: Data Science = Analytics + Data Mining + #BigData + Marketing Hype
9.68 seconds: Forecast for the winning time in 100m in London Olympics, using R #rstats bit.ly/O30G2r
4 Excellent Big Data Case Studies from @hkotadia: Smart meters, T-mobile, US Xpress, McLaren racing bit.ly/N3yysx
Authors of "Data Mining In Excel" respond bit.ly/OMB8Tj
Excel is #1 Commercial Analytics/Data Mining Software - @marktabnet reinterprets KDnuggets Software Poll bit.ly/MNj8hi
Kaggle competition shows person's Twitter use can predict psychopathic, other personality traits. But is it ethical? bit.ly/T0dG9C
EA: Machine Learning Scientist, find key insights in game data; use ML methods to create scalable solutions bit.ly/PzFCk5
James Taylor on Rexer Analytics Survey: Are data miners too focused on their models? (yes, too often) bit.ly/McORbM
Analytics Guru Avinash Kaushik on Web Analytics Consulting: A Simple Framework For Smarter Decisions bit.ly/NaF7sn
ECML-PKDD-2012, top European conf. on Machine Learning and Data Mining, Bristol, UK, Sep 24-28 - early reg by July 31 bit.ly/MJX3QF

Funny?
Dilbert's boss on Big Data: If we accept Big Data as our savior (in our servers?), we will be saved (from Bankruptcy?) bit.ly/NC6Gk8