Tag: MOOC
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Data Mining MOOC
The University of Waikato in New Zealand will be offering a free online course titled, Data Mining with Weka. Weka is a widely-used toolkit for data mining and machine learning. The University of Waikato developed the toolkit. Don’t wait too long to sign up, the course starts September 9, 2013. Here is a video of…
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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.
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Top 5 MOOCs for Data Science
Course Organization Notes Machine Learning Coursera (Standford) One of the first MOOCs Intro to Data Science Coursera (U of Washington) Starts in April 2013 Intro to Statistics Making Decisions Based on Data Udacity Enroll anytime Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization Knight Center @ U of Texas Starts January 12, 2013 Learning From Data CalTech…
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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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Coursera Ted Talk
Daphne Koller of Coursera gives a very intriguing TedTalk. She even throws out some good data. The machine learning class would have to be taught on-campus for 250 years to reach the same amount of students enrolled in the online class last fall. Here are some other impressive numbers. 640,000 students 190 countries 1.5 million…