BigData Helpful Links

What is data science/what do data scientists do?

• Data Scientist vs Data Analyst
• 10 Popular Business Analytics Tools
• Cloudera: What is Data Science? (white paper)
• Data Science toolbox lecture (video)
• http://www.greenplum.com/communities/data-scientist
• http://www.quora.com/Career-Advice/How-do-I-become-a-data-scientist
• R vs Python
• Columbia Institute for Data Science and Engineering
• Interview with the president of Kaggle (Specialist knowledge is useless)

Hadoop

• Mark Madsen: What Hadoop Is and What It Isn't
• Cloudera: Hardware Recs for Hadoop
• Wired Article About Mahout and Overstock.com

Both Data Science and Hadoop

• Cloudera: Data Science on Hadoop (video; sign-in required)
• Cloudera: Data Science: A Personal History (slides)
• Omer Trajman: Use Cases of Analytics in Hadoop (video)
• Cloudera: Data Scientist: The New Data Analyst (slides)
• Cloudera: R, Hadoop, and some use cases

Learning R

• Basic
  • CodeSchool's Try R
  • Quora topic on R learning
• Good Reference
  • A compilation of R blogs
  • Blog entries on visualization package GGPLOT2
• Advanced / Meaty
  • some Bioinformatics Packages for R
  • a Financial modeling package for R