[OGRUG] coursera

[Peter Timusk]

I learned  in a statistics course by Shirley Mills where her team provided
a lot of code to do data mining then got myself some basic intro books to R
and if you learn by books or even the free pdf's you may do well.

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To: Prof J C Nash (U30A)
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Subject: Re: [OGRUG] coursera

I consider myself a beginner / intermediate R user, and still learnt a thing
or two from Rodger's course. I took his more advanced course, and got more
about that, but it was pretty specific to predictive analytics.

Overall, I would recommend the coursera courses, if your an independent
learner. If not then the private sessions mentioned before might be better
for you. Picking up an R codebook might not be a bad idea either. Some are
pretty user friendly and can be specifically what you would need for your
analysis.

Cheers,
Abdool


On 15 May 2014 10:10, Prof J C Nash (U30A) <nashjc at uottawa.ca> wrote:

> For what it's worth, I tried the coursera site but experienced a 
> couple of problems in Firefox, but not Chromium (though see below).
>
> I use NoScript in Firefox, and coursera is wildly script-happy. I 
> suspect it can easily be a nasty vector for malware. Consequently, I 
> could not get started with coursera in my instantiation of Firefox.
>
> Thought I would tell them about this, since the messages will confuse 
> the unwary. Then I found that they have a dead "contact" link. Not good.
>
> This is a complaint about coursera. Roger's R course looks pretty good 
> for beginners. I've not quite figured out how it might be used for 
> those with some knowledge. My guess is that there is a real need for 
> ways to "join in the middle" in a sensible way, and that is a very 
> tricky teaching/learning issue.
>
> Best, JN
>
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 15:59:24 -0400
> > From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca>
> > To: Ozlem Cankaya <OCankaya at research4children.com>
> > Cc: "r-ug-ottawa at r-project.org" <r-ug-ottawa at r-project.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OGRUG] R Training info needed
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> >
> > Try the Data Science courses from John Hopkins for Free on this 
> > Massive
> Open Online Course (MOOC) web site www.coursera.org. I started their R 
> Programming course last week and they promise to run it every month .
> >
> > Peter Timusk
> >
> >
> >
> >> On May 14, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Ozlem Cankaya <
> OCankaya at research4children.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> Are there any individuals or organizations doing training for R
> (preferably in Alberta)?
> >> I am also open to suggestions for online training alternatives or 
> >> good
> websites.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much in advance!
> >>
> >> Ozlem Cankaya
> >> http://www.research4children.com/
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