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Twitter Teams with Berkeley to Offer Big Data Class
By Adi Gaskell
I wrote a few weeks ago about suggestions made by McKinsey that big data could be hampered by the lack of available talent available to implement it.
So news released this week that the University of California at Berkeley [School of Information] is teaming up with social network Twitter to help train the data scientists of the future is welcome indeed.
The university will offer the class on big data to both undergraduate and postgraduate students this year. The class will focus on analysis of data generated on Twitter....
The new course offers students a fantastic opportunity to gain the skills needed to flourish in this rapidly growing area, with social media analysis set to be a crucial area....
More information: Info 290. Analyzing Big Data with Twitter