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’ …
Tomorrow, June 8 2015, the Text Mining and Analytics course by Professor ChengXiang Zhai at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign starts on the Coursera platform. This is part of the Data Mining Specialization by the same university and it is closely related to the Text Retrieval and Search Engines course by the same professor. I …