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What would you say is missing from a mooc-based training?

• conjectures 8y ago
  Having looked through the contents of a couple of data science moocs they often try to give intuition without math. When trying to put it into practice, if we go the slightest distance off piste we are lost without the math. So it's a fragile form of knowledge. If we take someone who's already strong at math from some other training and teach them more stats/ML concepts and intuition, then great. But the value add of the mooc learning is quite low in that scenario. The best alternatives (barring a formal course) imo, are text books that have exercises like Bayesian Data Analysis by Gelman.