Data Science online courses and MOOCs - student reviews
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Introduction to Probability - The Science of Uncertainty
The world is full of uncertainty: accidents, storms, unruly financial markets, noisy communications. The world is also full of data. Probabilistic modeling and the related field of statistical infe...
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h c
6 years ago
Incredibly valuable course. Probability is a foundational topic that needs to be thoroughly internalized for follow-on work in the sciences ...
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Introduction to R
With over 2 million users worldwide R is rapidly becoming the leading programming language in statistics and data science. Every year, the number of R users grows by 40%, and an increasing number o...
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kito kid
7 years, 6 months ago
This interactive course is very suitable for total beginner. When I took this
course, I didn't have any R background. But along the way, I p...
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Machine Learning
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. In the past decade, machine learning has given us self-driving cars, practical speech recognition, e...
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P. Lepin
9 years, 1 month ago
An excellent introduction into essential machine learning techniques. The
course is very rich in content, and covers a lot of ground, but do...
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Maps and the Geospatial Revolution
Learn how advances in geospatial technology and analytical methods have changed how we do everything, and discover how to make maps and analyze geographic patterns using the latest tools.
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dagush
8 years, 3 months ago
Although I have taken about 8 Coursera courses so far, this one is among the
best I've seen. My previous experience includes a los of OpenSt...
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Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
6.00.2x will teach you how to use computation to accomplish a variety of goals and provides you with a brief introduction to a variety of topics in computational problem solving . This course is ai...
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student
4 years, 6 months ago
This is not a simple or introductory course. Following MIT 6.00.1x, this course continue to discuss the most commonly used algorithms in pro...
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Machine Learning for Data Science
Do you want to build systems that learn from experience? Or exploit data to create simple predictive models of the world?
In this course, part of the Data Science MicroMasters program, you wil...
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tamarisk Xu
3 years, 8 months ago
I must say ,the content is very useful,and affluent.in fact,I learned a lot.And I like the teacher,he is great,clear and fluent speaking.but...
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Data Analysis and Statistical Inference
The Coursera course, Data Analysis and Statistical Inference has been revised and is now offered as part of Coursera Specialization “Statistics with R”.
This course introduces you to the discip...
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Greg Hamel
7 years, 7 months ago
Duke’s Data Analysis and Statistical Inference is an introduction to
statistics with an optional computational component using the R program...
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Python for Data Science
In the information age, data is all around us. Within this data are answers to compelling questions across many societal domains (politics, business, science, etc.). But if you had access to a...
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Introduction to R for Data Science
This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Data Science .
R is rapidly becoming the leading language in data science and statistics. Today, R is the tool of ch...
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Braden Jones
6 years, 3 months ago
Finally a great introduction to R course! Good for both beginners and intermediate level looking for a refresher on R. Very clear instructio...
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Introduction to Statistics
This Introduction to Statistics Course uses problem-based learning that shows you how to apply your knowledge in real-world situations. Our Many Ways™learning model feature multiple teachers and ...
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Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI
This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Big Data , and the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Data Science .
Power BI is quickly gaining ...
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Dibyendu Sharma Mondal, PRINCE2®
5 years, 11 months ago
Given I am working on Tableau, this is one of the course which helped me to pick up a BI tool very fast. Firstly the product is becoming exc...
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Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics
This course will cover the theory and the fundamentals of the emerging science of Sabermetrics. We will discuss the game of baseball, not through consensus or a fan’s conventional wisdom, but by se...
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How Green Is That Product? An Introduction to Life Cycle Environmental Assessment
In this course you will learn the basics of the life-cycle assessment (LCA) method for holistic environmental analysis of products, technologies, and systems. LCA sheds light on the environmental i...
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Basic Statistics
Understanding statistics is essential to understand research in the social and behavioral sciences. In this course you will learn the basics of statistics; not just how to calculate them, but also ...
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Data Analysis Tools
In this course, you will develop and test hypotheses about your data. You will learn a variety of statistical tests, as well as strategies to know how to apply the appropriate one to your specific ...
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Exploratory Data Analysis
This course covers the essential exploratory techniques for summarizing data. These techniques are typically applied before formal modeling commences and can help inform the development of more com...
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Developing Data Products
A data product is the production output from a statistical analysis. Data products automate complex analysis tasks or use technology to expand the utility of a data informed model, algorithm or inf...
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Getting and Cleaning Data
Before you can work with data you have to get some. This course will cover the basic ways that data can be obtained. The course will cover obtaining data from the web, from APIs, from databases and...
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Introduction to Genomic Technologies
This course introduces you to the basic biology of modern genomics and the experimental tools that we use to measure it. We'll introduce the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology and cover how next-ge...
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Learning From Data (Introductory Machine Learning)
This introductory computer science course in machine learning will cover basic theory, algorithms, and applications. Machine learning is a key technology in Big Data, and in many financial, medical...
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student
7 years, 7 months ago
The lectures are great, and the class covers a number of essential concepts in
ML in much gory detail. Unfortunately, everything else in thi...
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Passion Driven Statistics
With existing data, you will develop skills in data analysis and basic statistics by exploring your own research question.
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Grace
7 years, 11 months ago
The best thing about Passion Driven Statistics was the free access to SAS
software. The other best thing about this course was Professor Die...
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Command Line Tools for Genomic Data Science
Introduces to the commands that you need to manage and analyze directories, files, and large sets of genomic data. This is the fourth course in the Genomic Big Data Science Specialization from John...
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Enhance Your Career and Employability Skills
Learn how to make effective decisions about your future career and how to take control of your professional development by honing your critical thinking and employability skills.
Suitable for anyon...
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Health in Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Clinical & Public Health Research
Quantitative Methods in Clinical and Public Health Research is the online adaptation of material from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's classes in epidemiology and biostatistics. Prin...
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Margaret Isokpan
6 years, 2 months ago
I was really excited to be in this class, I had used Pagano's book and the manual for intro to bio-statistics in a different program, which ...
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Neural Networks for Machine Learning
Learn about artificial neural networks and how they're being used for machine learning, as applied to speech and object recognition, image segmentation, modeling language and human motion, etc. We'...
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Anna Nachesa
8 years, 6 months ago
As was already said on this site, this course is a great follow-up to the
Machine Learning by Andrew Ng. The material is more advanced (spec...
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Practical Machine Learning
One of the most common tasks performed by data scientists and data analysts are prediction and machine learning. This course will cover the basic components of building and applying prediction func...
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Mobile Application Experiences Part 1: From a Domain to an App Idea
Want to create the next big app, grounded in the needs of real users? This course will teach you Human Computer Interaction (HCI) methods to understand current behavior in a domain and identify opp...
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Data Science Readiness Assessment
Are you interested in pursuing a degree in Data Science, but unsure whether you have the necessary Math and Programming skills? This assessment will help you identify your current readiness in thre...
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Applied Regression Analysis
Regression modeling is the standard method for analysis of continuous
response data. This course provides theoretical and practical training in statistical
modeling with particular emphasis on line...
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Introduction to Probability and Data
This course introduces you to sampling and exploring data, as well as basic probability theory and Bayes' rule. You will examine various types of sampling methods, and discuss how such methods can ...
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5 years, 6 months ago
This course offers you a really basic but, well taught, Introduction to Probability and Data and is probably one of the best materials avail...
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Computational Molecular Evolution
In this course you will learn about how and why DNA and protein sequences evolve. You will learn the theory behind methods for building and analyzing phylogenetic trees, and get hands-on experience...
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wishbonecollector
8 years, 4 months ago
I agree with the first reviewer that pointed out how much work the professor
put into this course before it started. He wrote up a guide, se...
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Regression Models
Linear models, as their name implies, relates an outcome to a set of predictors of interest using linear assumptions. Regression models, a subset of linear models, are the most important statistic...
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Compilers
This self-paced course will discuss the major ideas used today in the implementation of programming language compilers, including lexical analysis, parsing, syntax-directed translation, abstract sy...
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7 years ago
I like the overall course content but I think the step is too high from the
first part of the course (lexical analysis, parsing) to the seco...
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Statistics and Probability in Data Science using Python
The job of a data scientist is to glean knowledge from complex and noisy datasets.
Reasoning about uncertainty is inherent in the analysis of noisy data. Probability and Statistics provide the...
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MeY
3 years, 10 months ago
The course started on September 28. and was scheduled for ten weeks. Currently we still wait for the material of week 10 to be released and ...
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AstroTech: The Science and Technology behind Astronomical Discovery
How astronomy really works - an overview of the technology that astronomers use to collect and measure light from the universe, and how it is used in practice to make scientific discoveries.
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Nalin Venkat Sameera
7 years, 5 months ago
If you're new to the subject of astronomy, this MOOC could be a good place to
start. You just have 5 videos per week, each ranging from 5-15...
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Managing Big Data with MySQL
This course is an introduction to how to use relational databases in business analysis. You will learn how relational databases work, and how to use entity-relationship diagrams to display the str...
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Greg Hamel
5 years, 8 months ago
Managing Big Data with MySQL is the fourth and final course in Duke University's Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business speciali...
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Introduction and Relational Databases
This mini-course provides a general introduction to databases, and introduces
the popular relational data model.
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Ramiro Aznar
6 years, 3 months ago
This mini-course in addition to the ones about SQL and Relational Algebra are a good begining for understanding relational databases. The co...
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Statistics One
Statistics One is a comprehensive yet friendly introduction to statistics.
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Perdita Stevens
9 years, 1 month ago
Might possibly be worth doing in another presentation, if they fixed the
problems, but the first was disappointing. It was marred by very po...
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Views and Authorization
This mini-course provides extensive coverage of how database views can be
created, used, and updated; introduces standard techniques for authorization
in relational databases. It will be available ...
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Exploring Neural Data
Try your hand at understanding the brain by learning to analyze neural data yourself! Working with real neural data sets from neuroscience research labs, you’ll learn data analysis techniques so y...
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Core Concepts in Data Analysis
Learn both theory and application for basic methods that have been invented either for developing new concepts – principal components or clusters, or for finding interesting correlations – regressi...
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Bart olomeus
7 years, 6 months ago
I'm dropping this course after 5 weeks. There are good bits about this course,
but you can probably read about those in other reviews. I'll ...
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Teaching Statistical Thinking: Part 1 Descriptive Statistics
We prepare high school teachers for teaching descriptive statistics. Teachers will learn basic principles for summarizing data in meaningful ways. Satellite videos will discuss pedagogy and teach s...
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Structural Equation Model and its Applications | 结构方程模型及其应用
在社会学、心理学、教育学、经济学、管理学、市场学等研究领域的数据分析中，结构方程建模是当前最前沿的统计方法中应用最广、研究最多的一个。它包含了方差分析、回归分析、路径分析和因子分析，弥补了传统回归分析和因子分析的不足，可以分析多因多果的联系、潜变量的关系，还可以处理多水平数据和纵向数据，是非常重要的多元数据分析工具。本课程系统地介绍结构方程模型和LISREL软件的应用，内容包括：结构方程分析...
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Understanding the UK's 2015 General Election
Learn about the UK's 2015 general election: how does the system work, what is at stake, and how will it affect you? Whether or not you have a vote, if you want to gain a better understanding of UK ...
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软件包在流行病学研究中的应用 Using software apps in epidemiological research
开展一项流行病学研究需要经历研究设计、现场数据采集和录入、数据清理和分析、报告撰写等众多环节。随着计算机软件包的发展，上述的每个环节都可以通过利用不同的软件包高效率、高质量的实现。本课程期望通过众多的实例练习，并配以必要的流行病学基础知识讲解，使学生能够了解几种常见软件包的使用方法，并能将流行病学基础理论等书本知识更加灵活地应用于实际的研究中。
计算样本量是研究设计环节中的关键内容之一。在...
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Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences
This course exposes students to the logic of statistical reasoning and its application in the quantitative social sciences. It is meant as a thorough but accessible introduction to the topics of de...
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软件包在流行病学研究中的应用 Using software apps in epidemiological research
课程的主要目标是：（1）了解流行病学研究过程中，从研究设计、现场数据采集和录入、到数据清理和分析，常用的几种软件包的使用方法；（2）加强研究中对流行病学基础理论知识的灵活应用。
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大数据与信息传播 Big Data and Information Dissemination
本课程讨论人、媒介、信息在社会化媒体环境下的新规律。The course introduces students to regular patterns of interaction among people, media and information under our surrounding social media .
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Data Science in Python
Join the data revolution.
Data science is the analysis of problems critical to our lives: from helping
predict the spread of highly infectious diseases to guessing which movie
you're likely to...
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Regression Modeling in Practice
This course focuses on one of the most important tools in your data analysis arsenal: regression analysis. Using either SAS or Python, you will begin with linear regression and then learn how to ad...
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Hamideh Iraj
5 years, 8 months ago
This course is a high-level introduction to linear and logistic regression modeling using SAS and python. You will not become an expert in a...
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