Category Archives: Getting Data

Exploratory Data Analysis MOOCs

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 …

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Getting and Cleaning Data

“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 …

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