Both in timing and in content this could be a good lead-in to the University of Washington's Intro to Data Science class that looks like it will have more of a

Both in timing and in content this could be a good lead-in to the University of Washington's Intro to Data Science class that looks like it will have more of a focus on 'big data', NoSQL, Hadoop, data mining, etc. https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881581 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881581