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Could anyone in the know point to an open-source alternative platform (like R, py) on which these concepts may be applied? not so keen to tie any datasets to G

• danso 13y ago
  The data processing concepts that will be purportedly taught are not tied to any platform or language. I've used Fusion Tables to teach concepts of data and it's mostly useful for the built-in mapping capability and the ability to merge tables via foreign key, and the pivot/summary transformations. It's not just that beginners lack the tools to do these in SQL/Access/R/etc., it's that they don't even know what these concepts are, or what the value in them are. If you don't know many data concepts, then this course is probably worth taking. Then apply them to your datasets wherever they may be stored
• code_scrapping 13y ago
  R, Pandas (python) and alike will do a good job IMHO. I've been working with Matlab before (not really statistics, but more general), and now R is really delightful with visualizations and quick analysis. If you're looking for a rich programming language with basic analysis function I would recommend Pandas. Not as diverse as R, but works pretty good. (Just watch out for that steep learning curve in the beginning).