Tag: statistics
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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…
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Scalable Machine Learning Course
During the Spring 2012, Alex Smola taught a course at Berkeley on Scalable Machine Learning. Alex is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a Visiting Scientist at Google. Alex was kind enough to put all the course materials on the internet. That includes papers, slides, links, and video lectures. Like…
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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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Take and Learn Statistics For Free
Last week, Udacity started a course on Introduction to Statistics, Making Decisions Based on Data. This is a beginners level course on statistics, so it should be accessible to everyone. The course consists of seven units, which are intended to last about one week each. Udacity does not enforce any time limits though. Homework problems…
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OpenIntro (Free online Stats Book) is getting a new version. The updates sound good. If you are looking to learn statistics, this is an excellent and cost effective solution.
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Get Started With Kaggle – Description
Yesterday, I posted about the popularity of data hackathons. Well, today let’s get started with Kaggle. This is the first of a few simple posts about making your first submission to a Kaggle competition. I also promise you won’t be last place. You won’t be first either. This is an excellent way to start developing…
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A Data Science Curriculum
This is not intended to be mapped to a set of college courses. It is intended to be a listing of necessary skills for a data scientist. For a definition of data scientist, see this previous post. Mathematics Calculus – not directly important to data science, but the knowledge is important to understand the statistics…
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Open Source Online Statistics Book (OpenIntro)
OpenIntro is an organisation that was started to create a free and open source introductory statistics textbook. The book is available as a free PDF download, or it can be purchased in paperback from Amazon for less than $10. If you want to learn statistics or need a little refresher, check it out.
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Think Stats – An Online Statistics Book For Programmers
Previously I mentioned that online statistics learning resources are not abundant. Well, here is a new online book for learning statistics. It is geared towards programmers, and it looks to be a great fit for people wanting to learn data science. Here is a small excerpt from the Preface: It emphasizes the use of statistics…
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Kaggle Makes Data Science Fun
The tag line for Kaggle is “We’re making data science a sport.” They have successfully created a way to turn data science into a competition. It is both fun, and it yields excellent results. There is also a portion of the site dedicated for classroom use. It is called Kaggle in Class. Here is how…