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Data Science: R Basics

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2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2018–2019 · score 2.0

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An introductory Coursera course on the R programming language for data science, offered by Johns Hopkins University. It covers R basics as a first step into analysis with the language.

Commenters recommend it as a solid introduction to R, with one calling it highly recommended and noting the statistics are light for someone with actuarial training.

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20182019

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  1. Strongly recommendsnesh34r/programming2019in “Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic”▲ 3

    R is fucking class although Python has the benefit of being a robust programming language outside of analytics use. Highly recommend the Coursera R/data science course from John Hopkins as an introduction to the language. The statistics in that will be trivial compared to your actuary training and…

  2. Recommendsmogranjmr/learnprogramming2018in “Best path to learning R”

    You can 'audit' courses on Coursera to take them for free (you just don't get proof of completion at the end). I'd recommend the data science course there from John Hopkins, it focuses on R. There are also Python courses which cover similar stuff, but I haven't taken any of those yet. Also…

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