The previous KDnuggets Poll asked:
What will be the hottest analytics / data mining topics in 2012?
The top 3 topics were Big Data with 50% of the vote, Analytics in the Cloud/Hadoop, and Social Analytics. Privacy was in the last place.
Here are the poll results.
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What will be the hottest analytics / data mining topics in 2012?
[366 votes total] | |
| Big Data (183) |  50.0% |
| Analytics in the Cloud and Hadoop (155) | 42.3% |
| Social analytics (146) | 39.9% |
| Text analytics (125) | 34.2% |
| Location-aware analytics (86) | 23.5% |
| Sensor data (61) | 16.7% |
| Competition platforms (39) | 10.7% |
| Game analytics (38) | 10.4% |
| Privacy (36) | 9.8% |
| Other (22) | 6.0% |