Top news for Aug 21-27

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1. Poll Results: Top Languages for Data Mining/Analytics ( comments) - Aug 16, 2011.
2. The New Big Data - Aug 23, 2011.
3. Analytics-as-a-Service: Understanding how Amazon.com is changing the rules - Aug 23, 2011.
4. Stanford adds free online courses on DB, Machine Learning - Aug 19, 2011.
5. Stanford Graduate Certificate in Data Mining - Online - Aug 24, 2011.
6. The Big Data revolution: 5 startups mining the trend - Aug 27, 2011.
7. Top news for Aug 14-20 - Aug 21, 2011.
8. HP buys Autonomy, focuses on analytics - Aug 20, 2011.
9. Growing Need for "Big Data" Analysis Spurs Growth in KDD Conference - Aug 24, 2011.

"Big Data" was especially popular on twitter - almost all KDnuggets items with Big Data were among the top retweeted.

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1. Big Data and Machine Learning Engineer at State, London, UK - Aug 22, 2011.
2. Analytics-as-a-Service: Understanding how Amazon.com is changing the rules - Aug 23, 2011.
3. The Big Data revolution: 5 startups mining the trend - Aug 27, 2011.
4. The New Big Data - Aug 23, 2011

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1. Poll Results: Top Languages for Data Mining/Analytics ( comments) - Aug 16, 2011.
2. Radoop - Like Yahoo Pipes for Hadoop - Aug 16, 2011.
3. First Look - JMP Pro - Aug 15, 2011.
4. SIGKDD 2011 Innovation Award Winner - Aug 16, 2011.
5. Interview with Rapid-I Ingo Mierswa and Simon Fischer - Aug 12, 2011.

Most viewed jobs and positions

1. Research Internships at Yandex, Moscow, Russia - Aug 3, 2011.
2. Big Data and Machine Learning Engineer at State, London, UK - Aug 22, 2011.
3. Predictive Modeling and Data Mining Scientists/Analysts at Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign, Chicago, IL - Jul 13, 2011.
4. Manager, Advanced Analytics at Orbitz, Chicago, IL - Aug 23, 2011.
5. Sr. Analytics Consultant at TIBCO, Palo Alto, CA or telecommute - Aug 24, 2011.