Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 19-25: 1st course in Data Science, SAP drops SPSS, Google Big Query

First (?) course in Data Science, SAP dropping SPSS, Google Big Query, SXSW, Twitter and McDonalds, guessing the vote in presidential elections, and more.

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Top KDnuggets tweets from twitter.com/kdnuggets last week (March 19-25) were

First (?) course on Data Science. vsb.li/bqETEL #datamining
SAP drops SPSS, uses R for new BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis software vsb.li/vHdYdV #Rstats
Google Big Query to be available for public vsb.li/kqsfBw #datamining
A pioneering course on #DataScience at Berkeley, Spring 2012. Also see lectures from 2011 course bit.ly/GWk4WX
'Big Data' Emerges as Key Theme at SXSW - privacy, education, politics and more t.co/uKPEPcON
Twitter data scientist clusters McDonalds Menu, talks about data science at Twitter vsb.li/ddEdgx

Also these two items I retweeted were very popular

RT @fivethirtyeight: Over last 5 presidential elections, guessing the vote would be 50-50 has done better than economic forecasting models.
RT @rbattiti Learning from data, a live course by my favorite Caltech prof Yaser Abu-Mostafa, yes #datamining CAN be exciting t.co/gbAFMc7s