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https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog - This is the best online course I've taken. Another one I am signed up for and have

https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog - This is the best online course I've taken. Another one I am signed up for and have already done one week of lectures (preview mode) and find very applicable is https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/ https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/

area51org 11y ago
Thanks for posting this.
dhawalhs 11y ago
Interestingly we get a lot of mixed reviews for R Prog course: https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1713/coursera-r-programming#reviews https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1713/coursera-r-programmi... Learning how to learn is the best course online that any one can take.
- sonabinu 11y ago
  I blogged my experience with learning R here - http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-r-learning-curve.html http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-r-learning-curve.ht... and with the class here - http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-most-recent-mooc-experience.html http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-most-recent-mooc-exp...
- 1wheel 11y ago
  I though Jenny Bryan's R class had more modern take on R that was significantly easier to follow. https://stat545-ubc.github.io/ https://stat545-ubc.github.io/ Even with some R experience I didn't feel like I got enough information from the R Prog lectures to complete the assignments.
- scrollaway 11y ago
  I've been spending the past hour on "Leaning how to learn" because of the recommendations here. I was... well, the course was definitely not quite what I expected. What I'm seeing here is a bunch of "tricks", and a lot of "brain facts" which I would usually dismiss as pseudoscience. The course almost feels like a scam. What gives?
  - dhawalhs 11y ago
    All of the course content is based on the hard science, but is simplified so that every one can understand. You can look at the background of one of the course instructor: https://www.coursera.org/instructor/terry https://www.coursera.org/instructor/terry
thmcmahon 11y ago
I also found the r programming class to be super useful.
nl 11y ago
I didn't think the R course was that great. I only did the first course in the speciality but I thought the assignments didn't match the lectures very well. I don't really know R but I still got through OK (100%) but it didn't compare well with the EdX AMPLab Spark course I did around the same time.
pedrodelfino 11y ago
Learning how to learn is really cool! Best time investment I have ever made.

area51org 11y ago

Thanks for posting this.

dhawalhs 11y ago

Interestingly we get a lot of mixed reviews for R Prog course: https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1713/coursera-r-programming#reviews https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1713/coursera-r-programmi... Learning how to learn is the best course online that any one can take.

sonabinu 11y ago
I blogged my experience with learning R here - http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-r-learning-curve.html http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-r-learning-curve.ht... and with the class here - http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-most-recent-mooc-experience.html http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-most-recent-mooc-exp...
1wheel 11y ago
I though Jenny Bryan's R class had more modern take on R that was significantly easier to follow. https://stat545-ubc.github.io/ https://stat545-ubc.github.io/ Even with some R experience I didn't feel like I got enough information from the R Prog lectures to complete the assignments.
scrollaway 11y ago
I've been spending the past hour on "Leaning how to learn" because of the recommendations here. I was... well, the course was definitely not quite what I expected. What I'm seeing here is a bunch of "tricks", and a lot of "brain facts" which I would usually dismiss as pseudoscience. The course almost feels like a scam. What gives?
- dhawalhs 11y ago
  All of the course content is based on the hard science, but is simplified so that every one can understand. You can look at the background of one of the course instructor: https://www.coursera.org/instructor/terry https://www.coursera.org/instructor/terry

thmcmahon 11y ago

I also found the r programming class to be super useful.

nl 11y ago

I didn't think the R course was that great. I only did the first course in the speciality but I thought the assignments didn't match the lectures very well. I don't really know R but I still got through OK (100%) but it didn't compare well with the EdX AMPLab Spark course I did around the same time.

pedrodelfino 11y ago

Learning how to learn is really cool! Best time investment I have ever made.