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Data Analysis
Coursera
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2012–2013 · score 2.2
Coursera's Data Analysis course teaches applied statistical methods for analyzing data, using R. It is commonly paired with the Computing for Data Analysis course, which covers R basics.
Commenters describe it as a good applied statistics course using R, and say it is widely used in medical and business industry work.
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There's a great couple of recurring courses on Coursera. I think they're called Computing for Data Analysis, and Data Analysis. The former is basically intro to R, the latter is basically applied statistical methods using R. Both were very good.
I'm happy more people are taking advantage of this. I would like to see their math curriculum expanded. Looks like they are doing it though since they recently added Algebra and Precalc, as well as some Optimization classes. You may want to consider taking a look at their "Biostatistics bootcamp"…
I actually have a very different view on this. Learn as much as you can for free. For starters, YouTube sentdex and torrent Andrew NG's ML course (because financial aid is available for it, but after 15 days of application. Might as well just torrent it to get the basics) Sentdex is actually…