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[OGRUG] coursera

3 messages · John C Nash, Abdool Yasseen, Peter Timusk

John C Nash
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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
Peter Timusk
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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:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
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