What are the best blogs on BigData?

I am looking for some good bigData or Data Science there are some blogs which I found really useful 

 Hadoop Tips - Rant about Big Data and related technologies.

Most of the articles and tutorials posted are of installing and learning hadoop 1.12 which is significantly a older version of hadoop.You can check this blog:
http://technichesblog.wordpress.com

You can learn about the installation procedure and how to run hadoop from this tutorial blog it is well written and there are some demo tutorials of running a hadoop map reduce job in python.
You can download virtual machines preinstalled with hadoop to quickstart learning hadoop but i would suggest learning installation too.  
Download Hortonworks or Cloudera Sandbox
Cloudera QuickStart VM
Hortonworks Sandbox

You can also go through the data analytics materials of google
Data Mining - Research at Google

you can also check youtube for Edureka tutorials.

Edureka Tutorials

Big Data Analytics
The Big Data Hub

Some basic blogs Like.

iScanned : Scanning the Tech World..
BIG Data, Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, and Visualizations -
Johan Louwers Personal Blog "my view on the IT world".

There are some best books to start learning Hadoop

1.Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

2.Hadoop Beginner's Guide

3.Hadoop For Dummies

Despite of this books you need to stay in touch with some of the blog posts on Hadoop in order to know the updates of BigData like Hadoop Weekly, BigData Weekly-here every week they will publish some best blogs on Hadoop.

You can also get best blogs on BigData technologies in the below link

Big Data and Hadoop

Happy Hadooping