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No one has said it yet, but this is awesome. As someone working through bunches of books at the moment, it's great to see some kind of structure to at least guide me while I go about my own things.

Even if I don't use the courses fully, I'll certainly take bits and pieces as I go forward.

Great stuff.

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I'm interested in dabbling into this and am wondering what books are you looking at/recommend?

Sorry about the confusion - 'Big Data' is something I haven't delved into at all yet - I'm following a discrete maths course along with JUST getting into Ruby/Rails & Android development. I'm new to CS, and only recently followed along with www.cs50.net last fall. I did, however, ask my brother-in-law, whose main focus is big data in the medical field, about it. I'll post his recommendations if any later on - so check this in a day or so if you can.

If you're taking CS in school, make sure to take Linear Algebra. If you're self-taught, The khanacademy.org Linear Algebra playlist is invaluable.

Thanks for the heads up, I downloaded a cache of courses that were recorded and made available online some time ago - one of those being Linear Algebra. I'll have to work through it soon!

It really depends on what your background is / what context you're learning in.

My background's in CS and I've mostly been a web developer for several years. Only know the normal SQL stuff but wouldn't consider myself an expert. I'm also interested in OLAP but I can't seem to find anything on it other than what it is.

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