Tag: udacity
-
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.…
-
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
-
“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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…