[OGRUG] coursera
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. -----Original Message----- From: r-ug-ottawa-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-ug-ottawa-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Abdool Yasseen Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:50 AM To: Prof J C Nash (U30A) Cc: r-ug-ottawa at r-project.org 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 Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP63C9A0F7CAC9F8243A3F7DC370 at phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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