Ever wondered what are the most useful R packages for doing Data Science? Don’t have to wonder anymore, RStudio has collated a list of most useful R packages in its github repository titled “RStartHere“. How did R Studio come up with the list for doing Data Science? RStudio used the iconic Data Science work flow […]
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Coursera to offer Masters Degree in Data Science
Coursera announced that it is teaming up with multiple universities, including Imperial College London, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan and University of London, to launch online Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree programs. Two Master’s Degree in Data Science from Coursera Two of the degrees offered by Coursera are on Data Science. One is […]
Data Science Professional Certificate Program from Harvard/edX
There are a number of really good ways get started learning Data Science. I just came across this really nice Data Science certificate course from Harvard/edX. The Data Science certificate program offers a series of courses that covers the basics of Data Science; probability, statistical inference, regression, and machine learning. It uses R programming and […]
Python 3 Guide for Data Scientists
In case you missed it, there won’t be any support Python 2 by 2020. The last Python 2 update was for Python 2.7. So if you are interested in Data Science and learning Python, start with Python 3. If you already program with Python 2, it is time to migrate to Python 3. Alex Rogozhnikov, […]
Data Science at the Command Line: Free Online Book
Data Science at the Command Line by Jeroen Janssens, one of the few books focuses on the use of command line tools to learn Data Science is available now for free online at https://www.datascienceatthecommandline.com/. The book teaches the power of command line to do data science more effectively. It covers over 80 command line tools […]