Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 15-17: Becoming a data scientist with few courses?; Is it a good model or a bad model?

Can you become a good data scientist after taking a few courses? How do you tell if it is a good model or a bad model? Data Mining Cartoon: Twitter, Facebook, and Predicting Elections; What is the skill set for the "Sexiest" Data Scientist?

Most popular KDnuggets tweets
(see twitter.com/kdnuggets ) for Oct 15-17 were

Can you become a good data scientist after taking a few courses on Coursera? bit.ly/RDZ9P7
How do you tell if it is a good model or a bad model? Key issue in Analytics and Data Mining bit.ly/P887Zi
Data Mining Cartoon: Twitter, Facebook, and Predicting Elections bit.ly/Xey9tx
What is the skill set for the "Sexiest" Data Scientist? bit.ly/Tnuci6
10 Ways Data Mining Will Transform Higher Ed bit.ly/RPbbpJ
If Twitter and Facebook cannot predict elections, what can they predict ? New data mining cartoon has the answer. bit.ly/R1b504
Deconstructing Recommender Systems: How Amazon and Netflix predict your preferences and prod you to purchase bit.ly/R872O7
IPython Notebook environment for Data Science bit.ly/RzmIsd
Using Analytics to Predict Hollywood Blockbusters - how studios do it bit.ly/TYx5uY
Data mining Nobel Prize nominations - what are the correlations? bit.ly/Tv5ufz

Funny?
Data Mining Cartoon: Twitter, Facebook, and Predicting Elections

"Twitter and Facebook can't predict the election,
but they did predict what you're going to have for lunch:
a tuna salad sandwich.

You're having the wrong sandwich."