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...

h c
5 years, 3 months 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...

kito kid
6 years, 9 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...

P. Lepin
8 years, 4 months 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.

dagush
7 years, 6 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...

student
3 years, 10 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...

tamarisk Xu
2 years, 11 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...

Greg Hamel
6 years, 10 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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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...

Dmitriy Prokopyev
5 years, 6 months ago
It is the best course for non-programmers who are wishing to start their Data Science carrier using R Programming language as a tool. I have...
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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 ...

Dibyendu Sharma Mondal, PRINCE2®
5 years, 2 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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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...

student
6 years, 10 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.

Grace
7 years, 2 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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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...

Margaret Isokpan
5 years, 5 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'...

Anna Nachesa
7 years, 9 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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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 ...

4 years, 9 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...

wishbonecollector
7 years, 7 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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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...

posted anonymously
6 years, 3 months 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...

MeY
3 years 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.

Nalin Venkat Sameera
6 years, 8 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...

Greg Hamel
4 years, 11 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.

Ramiro Aznar
5 years, 6 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.

Perdita Stevens
8 years, 4 months 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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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...

Bart olomeus
6 years, 9 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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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...

Hamideh Iraj
4 years, 11 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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