I have mentioned this MOOC, from Stanford University’ professor Andrew Ng, available on Coursera in a couple of articles already. I have read about it in several forums and until now, I only took a quick look. A couple of months ago I finally decided to dive in, because I was really curious, the comments …
The Coursera JH Data Science Specialization closes with a Capstone Project based on Natural Language Processing. This course is in the references and its lessons are still available for preview but only until the 30 June clicking on the following URL: https://class.coursera.org/nlp/lecture. The lessons in PDF format are still available from Dan Jurafsky at the …
This MOOC is conceptually one of the most interesting ones that I have taken to date. It is based around the implementation of the concept of “Literate Programming”, introduced by Donald Knuth in his 1992 book, in which basically a system where documentation and “live” source code are presented in the same document. In the …
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 …
“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 was on a discussion forum connected to the “Getting and Cleaning Data” MOOC on Coursera. During the peer evaluation of the course’s project, one question puzzled me and I wanted to get some clues. The question is in no way related to the content of the project or the course, so I feel free …
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 …