Tag: coursera
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Coursera Machine Learning Starts Today
Andrew Ng’s wonderful Coursera course on machine learning starts today. It is not too late to sign up.
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Levels of Data Analysis
The list is ordered according to the level of difficulty. Descriptive just describe the data, common for census type of data Exploratory find relationships that were not clear beforehand, useful for defining future studies, remember correlation does not imply causation Inferential use a small dataset to say something about a larger population, most common goal…
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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 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…
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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)…
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Coursera Computational Methods of Data Analysis Started
The Coursera class Computational Methods of Data Analysis started yesterday. There is still plenty of time to enroll in the class. This course assumes a good familiarity with calculus, linear algebra, and some basic programming. Thus, if your math background is weak or needs a refresher, you may not want to take this course. However,…
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Computing for Data Analysis Starts Today
Coursera’s Computing for Data Analysis starts today. Enroll now and start learning R and data analysis.
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Top 5 Data Startups
Kaggle They make data science a sport, enough said. DataKind DataKind may not technically be a startup because it is a nonprofit, but they are doing cool stuff. They match nonprofit organizations with people that love to analyze data and create visualizations. Cloudera They call themselves “The Platform for Big Data”. They are working hard…
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In 2013, Learn Data Science via Coursera (a curriculum)
Coursera has some excellent courses coming up in 2013. Here are some potential curriculum paths for someone looking to learn data science. Prerequisites Either sequence requires/recommends some basic programming experience. If you are unfamiliar with programming, you still have a couple weeks to get familiar with some basic programming concepts. Some good places to start…
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Coursera Announces College Credit
Yesterday, Coursera announced that students will soon be able to earn college credits for some of the courses. See the blog post with the college credit announcement.
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Coursera Adds 17 New Universities
Just Announced, Coursera adds 17 new universities. Those universities include Columbia and Brown, as well as a few international universities. A few notable courses for data science are: a new machine learning course from the University of Washington, Linear Algebra from Brown, and Natural Language Processing by Michael Collins from Columbia. See the following pages…
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Two More Coursera Courses Start Today
Coursera has so many courses, it is difficult to keep track. New ones are starting all the time. Here are 2 more that will be beneficial to people interested in learning more about data science. Statistics One – Technically, it started yesterday, but you will not miss out on much if you start today. If…