Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 14-16: Is Apache Spark the Next Big Thing? R Meta-Book – best CRAN posts assembled

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Is Apache Spark the Next Big Thing in #Big Data? Claims 100x faster than #Hadoop in memory, 10x faster on disk buff.ly/1nqwxgP

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Is Apache Spark the Next Big Thing in #Big Data? Claims 100x faster than #Hadoop in memory, 10x faster on disk buff.ly/1nqwxgP

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An R Meta-Book - best CRAN posts assembled into "Intro. to Probability and Statistics with Applications" #rstats buff.ly/1giWx3T

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1. Is Apache Spark the Next Big Thing in #Big Data? Claims 100x faster than #Hadoop in memory, 10x faster on disk buff.ly/1nqwxgP
2. An R Meta-Book - best CRAN posts assembled into "Intro. to Probability and Statistics with Applications" #rstats buff.ly/1giWx3T
3. The Beauty of π (pi) - the fastest (and most incomprehensible) formula for pi from Ramanujan buff.ly/1eBJgnE
   
4. Tips for Hiring Data Scientists: look for quants with business hustle, intellectual curiosity, dont filter on degree buff.ly/1gDxbi0
5. Microsoft Machine Learning Smackdown and best Machine Learning/Statistics add-ins for Excel buff.ly/1gqvQPh
6. New book: Big Data, Mining, and Analytics: Components of Strategic Decision Making bit.ly/1iNGApS
7. Sloppy researchers beware. METRICS center at Stanford, led by Dr. Ioannidis, will wage war on sloppy science buff.ly/1kVChgN
8. What happened to Malaysian Air Flight 370? Can the crowd integrate disparate information? #MH370 bit.ly/1eBBMkq
9. Lead a @DataKind chapter, bring together data scientists and mission-driven organizations to tackle our big problems buff.ly/1kVBKvo
10. Lessons from Pixar, Tableau: Not much use presenting data w. convoluted reports - visualizations should be beautiful buff.ly/1gx6StM