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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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2013 Year of Statistics
Yes, 2013 is the International Year of Statistics. Thus a video was made. Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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Data Science is on Wikipedia
Wikipedia has a page for Data Science. Read more
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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. Read more
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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… Read more
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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 Read more
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Data Analysis Landscape
Jeff Leak, instructor of the upcoming Coursera Data Analysis course, wrote up a nice blog post, The Landscape of Data Analysis, explaining the topics to be covered in the course. The topics look good. He also made a video explaining how data science fits in with other disciplines such as: computer science, medicine, statistics, and… Read more
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If The World Were 100 People?
Not only is the topic interesting, but the concept of breaking the global population down into 100 people is brilliant. This infographic is easily understandable, and it conveys a whole lot of information in a clean and concise manner. For more about where the data came from, see the 100 People page. If the World… Read more
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Computing For Data Analysis Week 1 Overview
Week 1 of the Computing for Data Analysis course focused mostly on getting R and RStudio installed. Then it focused on some of the basics of the R language. Here are some of the topics History of R How to get help help() Data types in R numeric (real numbers) character (strings) integer (counting numbers)… Read more
Data Science 101
One of the oldest blogs on data science, started in 2012.
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