The Best of @BigData Aug/2011

Here are the most popular tweets/links shared through my BigData twitter stream:

Hadoop prototype for incremental realtime analytics with MapReduce: a hash-based analytics framework from @UMassAmherst

Probability & Graphs: Estimating Sizes of Social Networks, with a Biased Sampling method dramatically reduce required samples

Extracting common sense facts (causal reasoning): Simple, scalable methods for tapping Web-scale data

Mining Massive Data Sets: Free Stanford CS lecture notes & outline, from a Winter/2011 course

HaLoop: A Hadoop extension for large-scale, *iterative* data analysis applications

twitInfo: MIT CSAIL (prototype) web app for investigating topics on Twitter

The luckiest woman on earth: Stanford PhD wins TX lottery 4 times

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