At this moment I am following two similar MOOCs, one on Coursera (Exploratory Data Analysis, part of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization) and one on Udacity (Data Analysis with R, part of the their Data Analyst Nanodegree). At first glance, the two should deal with roughly the same subject, however I would rather say …
I was using my own article “A R kernel in IPython notebook: Jupyter“, to install both Jupyter and the IRKernel on a small ASUS Eee PC Seashell 12” laptop that I use when we are on holidays. This runs Kubuntu, as most of the PCs in my household. Unfortunately the instructions I provided in July …
“Getting and Cleaning Data” is the third course of the “Data Science Specialization” from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Coursera, was the first of this series of course where some connection to some of the Data Scientist’s real tasks can be found. I imagine that the data collected on the fields in …
I have a new idol. When I discovered this web site, thanks to the referral in the “Getting and Cleaning Data” MOOC on Coursera, little did I know about the gapminder.org web site, about Professor Hans Rosling from Sweden and his work as a Statistician and Global Health expert. But what really is gapminder.org? In …
After the MOOC “Data Visualization”, I joined a discussion on “What MOOC are you going to take next”. A participant to the discussion mentioned the MIT’s “The Analytics Edge” course, on edx.org, as being one of the nicest he had taken. The name was intriguing, the description too. I decided to have a look. Dates: …
I just completed the Coursera MOOC “R Programming” by Johns Hopkins University and on which I already have written about in another recent post. I have put together some thoughts on this course while responding to a question on the courses’ forums. The question was: “How do I master R Programming. My answer: If you …
R Programming is the second course in the Data Science Specialization offered by the Johns Hopkins University on Coursera. At the end of the Data Visualization Course, discussing with other fellow MOOCers on the “Your next MOOC” thread, I was expressing the wish to take this course. Many people who had done it stated that …
Prof. Charles Redmond has produced a series of short courses on the udemy.com platform. The courses follow the principle of being finalized to a specific task, and the tasks, in the first three courses of the series, follow logically from each other. These first three courses are: R, GGPlot and Simple Linear Regression R, GGPlot …
When producing a plot using Python and matplotlib for publishing purposes, or to submit it as part of a report or for any professional use, some questions come to mind that not usually explained in one easy to retrieve place. True, everything is in the matplotlib documentation or can be easily found on stackoverflow. But …
Another MOOC/Learning platform has interesting offerings for Data Science. This is Udacity, with their Data Analyst Nanodegree program. The courses are not free and the cost of the program seems to be higher than those proposed by Coursera, and are based on a monthly fee. However some of the preparation courses that are part of …