Tag: MOOC
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2015 Summer of Data Science Learning
The twitter hashtag #SoDS is being used in 2015 to help people track and share what they are learning. The hashtag originated on the Becoming Data Scientist blog. I recently wrote a post for Sense about a number of freely available learning opportunities this summer, Start Learning with the Summer of Data Science. The post…
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Learn Apache Spark this Summer with edX
edX has just announced a new series of Big Data courses. The series consists of 2 courses focused around Apache Spark. If you are not familiar with Spark, it is a very fast engine for large-scale data processing. It claims to perform up to 100 times faster than hadoop. Here are the 2 courses: Introduction…
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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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Foundations of Data Analysis on EdX
EdX will be offering Foundations of Data Analysis via the University of Texas at Austin. The course starts November 4, 2014. Here is a list of topics: Tutorials on using R Descriptive Statistics Statistical Models (Regression) Inferential Stats
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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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Caltech Machine Learning Course Now on EdX
The widely popular Caltech course, Learning from Data, will be offered on EdX this fall. The course starts September 25, 2014, and it will run for 10 weeks. Here is an abbreviated list of the course topics. Linear Models Bias/Variance Neural Networks Cross Validation and much more EdX offers a number of other Data Science…
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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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Google Data Science MOOC
Google recently announced the launch of their own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The course is titled, Making Sense of Data, and it begins tomorrow, March 18, 2014. The prerequisites are quite simple. All that is needed is: a google account, a web browser, and a basic knowledge of spreadsheets. The content of the course…
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Data Mining with Weka MOOC
Professor Ian Witten of The University of Waikato has just begun his second iteration of the online course, Data Mining With Weka. Hurry, because the course started March 3, but there is still time to register and complete the course. The course lasts 5 weeks and covers how to analyze your own data with Weka.…
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Udacity Offers Data Science Certificate Track
Udacity now offers a Data Science Track. It is a series of courses to provide a person with data science skills. The courses are: Intro to Computer Science Intro to Statistics Intro to Data Science Exploratory Data Analysis Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce Data Wrangling with MongoDB The Introduction to Data Science course just opened.…
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Machine Learning MOOC from EdX
EdX, a MOOC site, is offering Learning From Data. This is a course about machine learning offered by Caltech. The course started yesterday, so there is still time to get started. The course has 2 tracks: audit and certificate. It looks great. Good Luck.