Month: January 2013
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Videos for Learning R
All of the videos from the Computing from Data Analysis Coursera course are available on Youtube. If you are interested in learning R or just need a refresher on some of the topics, these videos could serve as a great resource. Week 1 installing R, data types, reading/writing files Week 2 functions, apply, sapply, other…
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Free Data Analysis Textbook
Cosma Shalizi of the Statistics Department at Carnegie Mellon University is working on an Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View textbook. A copy of the textbook will remain freely available on the website. Since the textbook is still being created, comments are welcome.
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Data Analysis by Data Type
Data analysis is performed in many different fields and on many different types of data. Most fields call it something different. The following list comes straight from Jeff Leek’s Data Analysis Coursera class. Name of Data Analysis by Data Type Biostatistics for medical data Data Science for data from web analytics Machine learning for data…
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Syracuse Free Online Data Science Course
The Syracuse University iSchool will be hosting a free, open online Introduction to Data Science course. The course will be focused around Professor Jeff Stanton’s data science ebook. If you are interested, please hurry because the enrolment is limited to the first 500.
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Hans Rosling: The Joy of Stats
Hans Rosling does an excellent job of showing how “not boring” statistics can be. This is a great informative statistics video. It was originally posted at The Joy of Stats. The Joy of Stats from Gapminder on Vimeo.
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Data Analysis at Coursera
The Coursera Data Analysis course started yesterday. This course would be an excellent follow-up to the Computing with Data Analysis course. For a bit more about the course, check out this video explaining the content. The course consists of lectures, quizzes, and some data analysis assignments. There is still plenty of time to signup and…
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Data Science: The Paper that Started it All
Although Tobias Mayer may be known as the first data scientist, he did not coin the term data science. According to Wikipedia, the first use of the term data science was in 2001. Data Science: An Action Plan for Expanding the Technical Areas of the Field of Statistics was published in the April 2001 edition…
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Pizza Delivery: A video Infographic
This is a video infographic about pizza delivery in Manhattan. This is another good way to make data tell a story.
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Large-Scale Machine Learning at NYU
New York University is offering a Large Scale Machine Learning course starting later this month. This is NOT a MOOC, so it is not open to everyone. However, the lecture videos will be posted and possibly the other class handouts. This is not an introductory course, so knowledge of machine learning is a prerequisite. The…
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Data Science Journals
Journal Title Price EJP Data Science Free CODATA Data Science Journal Free Journal of Data Science Online Free Big Data Journal Free JDS (focuses heavily on the applications of data.) Free GigaScience (focuses on life and biomedical science) Free