Tag: coursera
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Gamification, Education, and BigData
This is a nice infographic about gamification in education. I am curious to watch how gamification plays a role in the online education scene at places like Udacity and Coursera. I think gamification is going to lead to many new and interesting problems in bigdata. Created by Knewton and Column Five Media
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Two Relevant Coursera Courses Starting Today
Web Intelligence and Big Data – Artificial Intelligence, NoSQL, map-reduce!! Oh My! I think this course will have some really good information. Gamification – From the first glance, this course may not directly relate to data science. However, gamification can lead to better user engagement which can lead to tons more data for prediction. I…
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“Why Online Education Won’t Replace College — Yet” I Disagree And Here Is Why
Recently, I read an article titled, Why Online Education Won’t Replace College–Yet. The article is most likely a response the recent success of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) such as those offered by Udacity and Coursera. The author, David Youngberg an Assistant Professor of Economics, presents 5 reasons why online education won’t replace college. I…
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New Web Intelligence and Big Data Coursera Class
Thanks to Ed for leaving the comment yesterday. I have reposted the comment here because I thought it was so good. Looks like Coursera added a new data science course entitled “Web Intelligence and Big Data” while nobody was looking! Plus, it starts at the end of the month, for those who can’t wait until…
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Learn Data Science
Starting Point If you have the necessary background in math, statistics, and computer science; then it is a good time to learn some data science specific skills. Coursera just recently launched a course specifically devoted to Data Science. It is titled: Introduction to Data Science. The course is being taught by Bill Howe of the…
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Learn Computer Science For Data Science
Many aspects of computer science are fundamental to data science. A good data scientist has to be able to transform/extract/manipulate lots of data. Computer programming is the main technique for such operations. Here are numerous resources to help you learn the fundamentals of computer science. Online Computer Science Courses: Introductory Level If you are not…
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Learn Statistics For Data Science
Statistics is an important component of data science. Thus, it would be nice to have some resources available. Learn Statistics For Free Online Well, here is a list of free statistics resources available online. All of these are fairly introductory, but I am guessing more advanced topics will be coming from these same organizations. Khan…
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Coursera Launches Data Analysis Classes
In case you missed the announcement yesterday, Coursera added 12 new universities and over 100 new courses. The exciting part for people learning data science is a new category of courses: Statistics, Data Analysis, and Scientific Computing. None of the courses have started yet. Most are scheduled for this fall or early 2013. The courses…
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How To Learn Data Science? Part 2
Yesterday, I posted about some traditional strategies to acquire data science skills. Today, I will post a nontraditional strategy. Internet Based There is hoards of data science information available on the internet for free. With enough personal motivation, a person could learn all the skills necessary for free (or cheap) online. Coursera is probably a…
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Coursera is Expanding – New Courses Starting Today
Since recently announcing $16M in funding, Coursera has been making quite a bit of noise. Last fall, Stanford University decided to freely offer a couple computer science classes online. The response was huge, and that led to the creation of Coursera. The courses are no longer limited to computer science, and Stanford is no longer…
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Learn To Code
Coding (a.k.a. computer programming) is not the primary function of a data scientist, but some coding skills are necessary. Modifying machine learning algorithms or scaling/altering data are both good examples of when writing a few lines of code could be very beneficial. Well, if you have desire to learn to code, then there is no…