After having become familiar with Ipython and its notebook mode (thanks to the MOOC Python pour les Scientifiques) , which allows to use the python language in an interactive and online way through a web browser, the familiarization with the R language through a more traditional (even if advanced) IDE like RStudio looks honestly like …
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 …
I was reading a very interesting article on R-Bloggers, “Choosing R or Python for Data Analysis? An Infographic”. The Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization makes a clear choice towards R. Also, this looks a good choice if you have to point jobs in this area. However, python is a generic purpose language and it is …