I am now aiming at the Capstone project in the Coursera’s Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins, to finish the Specialization. The project is focused on predicting the next word that somebody is going to type, based on several databases to be used to build up the prediction algorithm. There is a lot of previous …
I have played a bit with shiny. The RStudio folks provides the possibility of deploying R “Shiny” applications on their server. The final result which will look a lot like this: https://<YourAccount>.shinyapps.io/<YourApp>. There are several plans for this type of deployment, including one that allows you to deploy up to 5 applications for free. You …
“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 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 …
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 …
This book by Roger D. Peng is a suggested reading for the Coursera’s Johns Hopkins University Data Science Specialization. You can get it in electronic format from the Leanpub web site, for anywhere between free and 30 $. You decide how much you want to pay for it. The book is well written and flows …
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 …