Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 18-21: Steve Miller Open Source Analytics: MySQL, PostgreSQL, R; Talented analytics geeks to revolutionize healthcare

Steve Miller Open Source Analytics: MySQL, PostgreSQL, R, Octave, Python; Data Scientists, talented analytics geeks, to revolutionize healthcare; My HBR blog: Big Data Hype and Reality - where Big Data will have the biggest impact? Big Data versus Business Intelligence: Two Technologies on a Collision Course

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Steve Miller Open Source Analytics: MySQL, PostgreSQL, R #rstats, Octave, Python, NumPy, SciPy, IPython, pandas bit.ly/Sa6Say
Kyruus: Data Scientists, talented analytics geeks, to revolutionize healthcare bit.ly/S6FCI0
My HBR blog: Big Data Hype and Reality - where Big Data will have the biggest impact? bit.ly/UftzN3
Big Data versus Business Intelligence: Two Technologies on a Collision Course bit.ly/Xt0ZXp
What can you expect from Big Data? MIT Study: More data-driven companies were 5% more productive, 6% more profitable bit.ly/UaP0yQ
Big Data will help understand patterns at the individual level - build a Periodic Table of human behavior onforb.es/Qwo3Bx
Al Jazeera looks at #DataMining the US election - how campaigns use #BigData to microtarget the appeals bit.ly/QxYii0
#BigData: Much Hadoop about Nothing? Pressure grows to show more returns from Big Data initiatives onforb.es/R4BQP5
Scaling MySQL and MariaDB to TBs - is it possible? Tokutek CTO says yes , with TokuDB #BigData bit.ly/PEUosZ
SAS says SAP HANA and Oracle Exalytics are just very fast number crunchers, don't provide true analytics bit.ly/R2iRVs

Funny?
"It then crunches all the data, and spits out a web page that is catnip for the subtler semantic search results."
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