Tag: coursera
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Emily Glassberg Sands – How Data Science Can Unlock Teaching & Learning at Scale
Emily Glassberg Sands is the Head of Data Science at Coursera. This is a nice talk about how Coursera uses data science to improve the scale of teaching and learning. This talk was delivered at Women in Data Science 2020.
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Coursera Course for AWS Machine Learning
learn AWS Machine Learning on Coursera
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Coursera’s New Online Masters of Applied Data Science Degree
Coursera has partnered with the University of Michigan to launch a new master’s degree entirely online through the Coursera platform. The new Master of Applied Data Science degree will launch in Fall of 2019. Also of interest, Arizona State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign both announced masters degrees in computer science (both…
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Deep Learning Coursera Specialization
Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera and Deep Learning Expert, is launching a new specialization on Coursera. Details can be found at DeepLearning.ai or the Deep Learning Specialization Page. The specialization consists of 5 courses. They are free to audit and watch the videos. There is a fee to get graded assignments and receive a certificate…
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New Coursera Specializations for Data Scientists
Coursera just launched 18 new specializations. Not all of them are relevant to data science, but here are 3 of the specializations that pertain to data science. Data Mining from the University of Illinois Cloud Computing from the University of Illinois Healthcare Informatics & Data Analytics from Georgia Tech All of these specializations will provide…
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Process Mining Course via Coursera
Process mining is a bridge between data mining and business process modeling. Process Mining can be used to study event and log files to extract meaning. The Coursera course, Process Mining: Data science in Action, starts November 12, 2014.
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Free Big Data MOOC
Coursera is offering the course Mining of Massive Datasets from Stanford University. This is a popular course at Stanford and goes along with the book by the same name. The FREE course starts September 29, 2014, and runs for 7 weeks. The prerequisites are some SQL, algorithms, and data structures knowledge. Thanks to David Trower…
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Coursera’s Intro to Data Science Returns
The Coursera platform will once again be hosting the amazing course Introduction to Data Science from the University of Washington. The course will start June 30, 2014. It is free, and it will last 8 weeks. Having taken the course the previous time it was offered, I would highly recommend the course for anyone interested…
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Coursera Data Science Specialization – Started This Week
Coursera now offers a Data Science Specialization. The courses are taught by Johns Hopkins University. If you would like to earn a Specialization Certificate, each course will cost you $49 otherwise you can take the courses for free without earning the certificate. Best of all, the first course started this week (April 7, 2014). The…
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Coursera Machine Learning Starts (Again) Today
The excellent and popular Machine Learning class from Coursera and Andrew Ng starts today. This is the 3rd or 4th run of the course.
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Coursera Class on Recommender Systems
In about 1 month, the course, Introduction to Recommender Systems, will begin on Coursera. The course is being offered by the Computer Science and Engineering Department from the University of Minnesota. The course is 14 weeks long and has 2 tracks: Programming Track – 6 different recommender systems will be programmed Concept Track – great…
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What is Maching Learning
Machine Learning is a term that can mean different things to different people. Andrew Ng, cofounder of Coursera and Professor at Stanford, provides two definitions in his popular Machine Learning Course. The first definition comes from Arthur Samuel around 1959. Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. The…