Top KDnuggets tweets, Sep 27-30: 8 worst predictive modeling techniques; All credit card PIN numbers in the World analyzed

8 worst predictive modeling techniques; All credit card PIN numbers in the World analyzed; A few useful things to know about Machine Learning; Coursera free course: Computing for Data Analysis using R

Most popular KDnuggets tweets
(see twitter.com/kdnuggets ) for Sep 27-30 were

8 worst predictive modeling techniques (for #BigData), by Vincent Granville bit.ly/S9tKZO
All credit card PIN numbers in the World analyzed! DataGenetics find the top 5 PINs unlock 20% of all cards, more bit.ly/UwZXGu
Pedro Domingos: A few useful things to know about Machine Learning bit.ly/V00R17
Coursera course (free): Computing for Data Analysis (using R) - 4 weeks #rstats bit.ly/VQdEmc
How to use #BigData to stop customer churn: case studies - Analytics saves customers from call center hell bit.ly/OsffPW
What makes data scientists "sexy" ? @gilpress examines the history of the term onforb.es/R27Xid
#BigData company Datameer raises $6M from top VCs, makes Excel-style interface for Hadoop, analytics platform vsb.li/ZGEMBV
It's not magic - it's data mining - Beware of the information you post online! onforb.es/Q57QTt
Columbia Data Science course week 4: K-means, Classifiers, Logistic Regression, Evaluation bit.ly/QBJAu2
The Economist-Nielsen Data Visualization Challenge bit.ly/Qcwr91

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Can you live without a Data Scientist? I hope all data scientists' wives (and husbands) say "no" bit.ly/NVNj5z