Top KDnuggets tweets, Sep 24-26: Colleges rush to create #BigData/Analytics offerings; Former lawyer wins Kaggle contest with overkill analytics

Colleges rush to create #BigData/Analytics offerings; Former lawyer wins Kaggle contest with "overkill analytics"; Where Sentiment Analysis Heads Next: 6 types of sentiment analysis; Sound of #BigData and Million Songs Dataset: video map of the hottest songs

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Colleges rush to create #BigData/Analytics offerings: U. Texas, Northwestern, NCSU, Stanford, (also Coursera) bit.ly/SmdoGY
Former lawyer wins Kaggle contest with "overkill analytics" - simpler methods & a lot of compute power - learn more bit.ly/Pp7qX2
Where Sentiment Analysis Heads Next, by top expert @sethgrimes - 6 types of sentiment analysis bit.ly/SmyfKn
Sound of #BigData and Million Songs Dataset: video map of the hottest songs in the US #rstats bit.ly/PWvW2A
Social media company Dataminr raises $13M for Twitter analysis bit.ly/QbWXh3
How NOT to visualize data : "Avocadoness " over time? Subway makes the 2nd-worst graph ever gaw.kr/SOkmVV
Precog Public Beta Platform for Big Data bit.ly/Q1JlF9
#BigData and Big Apple: what FourSquare found from millions of check-ins bit.ly/SQ1eXF
Terracotta BigMemory Go offers Real-Time Big Data Access - for free bit.ly/P5DUEg
BlockAvenue startup uses #BigData to assign a Letter Grade to your neighborhood - sure to be controversial tcrn.ch/SANfdo

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What is common btw stock forecasting and analyzing dead fish brain waves? 2nd got Ig Nobel prize for bad #DataMining n.pr/SOmhts