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.<p><a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881581" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881581</a>
The original Database class is available [1] via Coursera for self study.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/db" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/course/db</a>