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 …
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 …
The Data Visualization MOCC started on Coursera on July 20 2015. This course is part of the Data Mining Specialization of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The course is taught by Prof. John C. Hart and it is not centred on programming, although this is not discouraged. Several resources and references are presented throughout the …
July 6 2015 was one of the starting dates for the Data Scientist’s Toolbox course, taught by Prof. Jeff Leek of Johns Hopkins’ University. This course is an introductory overview of the other courses of Johns Hopkins’ Data Science Specialization available on Coursera. There are several interesting aspects in this specialization among which the use …
The Coursera MOOC platform offers two specializations in the field of Data Science, that I have considered for learning about Data Science. One is the Johns Hopkins University Data Science Specialization, and the second is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Data Mining Certificate. The two specializations take different approaches, the Johns Hopkins’ …