#1102 overall
Data Analysis for Life Sciences
edX
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2017 · score 0.7
An edX XSeries of courses teaching data analysis for life sciences, using R and statistical methods applied to biological data. One commenter took it as a refresher on undergraduate maths and an introduction to R and MOOCs.
One commenter, an experienced engineer, says they enjoyed it, got a lot out of it, and would recommend it, while noting it is not enough to start a career on its own.
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It's funny, until recently I thought boot camps were for people who already were working in a field who wanted to sharpen a particular skill in that field.
Right, same with MOOCs. I am a pretty experienced engineer already, I recently took a course on EdX[1]. I wanted to round out my R (mainly a Python guy but there is some cool stuff in the R ecosystem), revise some of the maths from undergrad 20+ years ago, try out a MOOC, and take a peek into an area of computing I'd had no exposure to. I enjoyed it and I got a lot out of it and would recommend it to others. But could I have been a non-programmer, completed that course, and been adequately prepared to begin a career in industry? Absolutely not.
And to be fair that is not how that course is pitched, but there are some that are, that have even less content in them. $200 is a bargain for a working engineer who wants a new skill, or is even just curious. $20000 is a massive scam for a beginner who thinks they can kickstart a career that way.
[1] https://www.edx.org/xseries/data-analysis-life-sciences