courses:bigdata:links:start

William Cohen's course on ML with Large Datasets at CMU
Alex Smola's course on Scalable Machine Learning at Berkeley.
Free downloadable textbook Mining of Massive Datasets by Anand Rajaraman (Kosmix, Inc.) and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford Univ.).
Free downloadable textbook Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce by Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer (2010).