The following would serve as a really good resource for additional information:
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Kaggle competitions
URL: www.kaggle.com/
Kaggle runs data mining competitions regularly, often with monetary prizes.
Testing your skills on Kaggle competitions is a fast and great way to learn to work with real-world data mining problems. The forums are nice and share environments—often, you will see code released for a top-10 entry during the competition!
Coursera
URL: www.coursera.org
Coursera contains many courses on data mining and data science. Many of the courses are specialized, such as...