Top KDnuggets tweets, Sep 16-17: Using Twitter Data with R, updated; Skills needed for machine learning jobs

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Using Twitter Data with R #rstats, updated for API changes - great explanation by Ajay Ohri bit.ly/1aQj1gq

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Improving the #BigData Toolkit: Hadoop 2.0 will be faster, better support real-time data stream analysis, SQL nyti.ms/1eMIlWn

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Using Twitter Data with R #rstats, updated for API changes - great explanation by Ajay Ohri bit.ly/1aQj1gq

Top 10 Tweets

1. Using Twitter Data with R #rstats, updated for API changes - great explanation by Ajay Ohri bit.ly/1aQj1gq
2. Skills needed for machine learning jobs: Python/C++/R/Java; Probability/Statistics; Algorithms; Cloud computing b.qr.ae/1emqm85
3. Improving the #BigData Toolkit: Hadoop 2.0 will be faster, better support real-time data stream analysis, SQL nyti.ms/1eMIlWn
4. WekaMOOC: Data Mining with Weka, online course - watch the videos bit.ly/196uKRg
5. Alcohol Analytics startup want to be "Google Analytics" of beer, tracks consumption in bars to reduce fraud/waste bit.ly/14artC3
6. Best Open Source Tools for #BigData: Hadoop, Platforms, Tools, SQL/NoSQL Databases, BI, Analytics bit.ly/18uVZdq
7. Watch: Data Mining with Weka, online course bit.ly/1aFFtWg
8. Twitter co-founder wants to shift our reading away from news bites to ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm tcrn.ch/167RJQV
9. US Military Scientists Solve the Key Problem of Viral Marketing: finding the "seed group" who can spread the message bit.ly/14ZWP0X
10. DMRadio: join experts @KDnuggets, @DeanAbb, @KirkDBorne for discussion of Best Practices for Data Mining, Sep 19 bit.ly/187uBht

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