Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 16-19: Cookbook for R: solutions to common tasks and problems; Mining of Massive Datasets Book, free to download

Cookbook for R: solutions to common tasks and problems; Mining of Massive Datasets Book, by top Stanford researchers, free download; Costliest Lesson? Guess which company lost $45B in market cap; Character social networks in movies - cool, useful viz

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Cookbook for R: solutions to common tasks and problems in analyzing data #rstats bit.ly/NPWFwR
Mining of Massive Datasets Book, by top Stanford researchers, revised but still free to download bit.ly/Om2ccd
Costliest Lesson? Guess which company lost $45B in market cap in 2 mo, and how web analytics could have prevented it bit.ly/RkXl2f
Character social networks in movies - very cool viz ! Useful for recommendations, and beyond movies bit.ly/Ral4QH
Google Dremel makes #BigData interactive, goes way beyond Hadoop bit.ly/PuQvW1
#SmileData: Dutch scientists create a comprehensive smile database bit.ly/RYN7SU
Big Data Science Meetup, Aug 25, Fremont, CA, hosted by Pervasive bit.ly/NvdK2F
Analytics Career Path - A Simple Test - do you want to be a coach or a player? bit.ly/On9nkk
New Wave of Big Data Startups Could Kill A $30 Billion Industry read.bi/OAv3zk
Gartner #BigData Opportunity Heatmap by Industry: Government, Communications, Banking, Manufacturing have most opps bit.ly/Sbk7J9

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In past, most valuable thing was information. Now, it is information about information; Infinite recursion ? bit.ly/PIIVHA
"Data science" provides a smoke screen to take unwarranted leaps from shaky numbers - said a statistician bit.ly/OkUAcQ