Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 6-12:
Using machine learning to find bullying;
Columbia new Institute for Data Science

1. #BigData for good: Using machine learning to find tweets related to bullying, find bullies, victims, and witnesses bit.ly/POW1NN
2. Columbia University is creating a new Institute for Data Science and Engineering in New York City bit.ly/POkwuL
3. Titan, a new open-source Big Graph database system, now in alpha release bit.ly/ThDrT5
4. Prediction: 9.68 seconds - the winning time in 100m in London Olympics. Actual time 9.63 sec. Not bad! bit.ly/O30G2r
5. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: Extracting Value from Tables, Text, and Links, by John Elder bit.ly/O4Qd8d
6. ACM Data Mining Hackathon on #BigData , Bay area, Aug 18, analyze 2 years of mobile data bit.ly/NoiYJQ
7. "Getting started" competition for beginners in Machine Learning: handwritten digits recognition (with tutorials) bit.ly/Ql33KP
8. Big Data is near the top of Gartner Hype Curve for 2012 Cloud Computing bit.ly/MfMhQZ
9. Watch KDD-2012 plenary/keynotes talks by research/industry leaders in Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, Data Science bit.ly/NqP6hC
10. Sceo: a web app conversion of Weka bit.ly/MCm9Lz

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