 Hey everybody, welcome to the open source comm weekly top five I'm Jen, and I'm bringing you the best and brightest burning star articles from this past week January 26th through the 30th All right at number five. We have the earnestness of being important two words big data It's a big deal right now, but how do we distill it down to what data is most important? Grant Ingersoll is a long-standing committer of the Apache leucine and solar open source projects among other things And he writes about how we can best determine what data we need to focus on and how to satisfy our users needs with that data at number four we have Confessions of a systems librarian open source.com highlighted stories from people who work for an open source company or use open source tools to get work done in their jobs this week All of our eight articles on the subject are illuminating and we hope helpful to anyone looking for how to get into open source or Wondering what kind of open source options are out there right now Robin Izard is one such person using open source tools on the job He is a systems librarian at Algoma University where he works primarily with open source technologies like Evergreen and Drupal as well as working on the George Whaley project Find out more in this article At number three we have 30 community managers and open source to follow on Twitter Monday was community manager appreciation day this week So open source comm editor and community manager Jason Hibbins compelled a list of 30 community managers and open source You should follow on Twitter. It's a pretty sweet list and it represents lots of great talent and cool projects Go check it out and At number two we have open source can be a gateway to your next job Taurus Balog a great open source thinker and businessman Starts off his latest article for open source comms career theme with getting a college degree is usually a good idea It tells employers that you can stick with something for several years and see it through to completion But it doesn't really tell them what you can do So how can you get across to a potential employer what you can do? Get involved with an open source project jump in get your feet wet and then put it on your resume Find out more from Taurus in this article Finally our number one article this week Why now is the time to learn our? R is an open-source software platform for statistical data analysis and Revolution analytics is one of the many organizations harnessing its power You may have heard the news this week that Microsoft acquired Revolution analytics to Help more companies use the power of R and data science to unlock data big data insights with advanced analytics In this article David Smith the chief community officer at Revolution analytics and head of their open source solutions group Tells us about the trending job of data science And why that means now is the time to learn more about our that's it folks Find the links to the articles in the notes below and get our article on the site every Friday Thanks, and we'll see you next time