Top KDnuggets tweets, July 5-8: Excellent tutorial on outlier detection; Why the days are numbered for Hadoop

Excellent tutorial on outlier detection techniques by HPK; Why the days are numbered for Hadoop and what is likely to replace it; The role of Statistics in the Higgs Boson discovery; Big Data Startup Clustrix

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Excellent tutorial on outlier detection techniques by Hans-Peter Kriegel et al (from KDD 2010) bit.ly/PlL4K2
Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it and what is likely to replace it bit.ly/Ne3oRO
The role of Statistics in the Higgs Boson discovery (Can 21st century scientific discovery not use statistics ?) bit.ly/PfTNw0
Big Data Startup Clustrix Raises $6.75 M to Build Scalable Databases tcrn.ch/MLcgAo
Data Science passion at Last.fm - great presentation and insights into what we like to listen to bit.ly/NbhoeA
Music Data Science Hackathon, July 21, London. You get a music business challenge and a large music dataset #musicdata bit.ly/N7s2RZ
MapR gets exclusive Hadoop services on Google Compute Engine bit.ly/MCKRjW
Drew Conway, aka James Bond of Data, Sees Social Change, Careers in Data Science bit.ly/PrUxiQ
Twitter-firehose-mining company Datasift says Amazon can't do what we do, wants to build own #BigData center bit.ly/N3U40G
Data mining of US patents aims to predict emerging technologies bit.ly/PrQdz8
Yelp's Academic Dataset - data and reviews of 250 closest businesses for 30 universities - to explore and research. bit.ly/N5FqYh

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Why do you need HugeData for Higgs? The Higgs Boson Explained as comics bit.ly/OCqlPy