What people do with their degrees.
- A sequence of 9 courses on Data Science will start on Coursera on 2 June and 7 July 2014, to be lectured by Professors of Johns Hopkins University. The courses are designed for students to learn to become Data Scientists and apply their skills in a capstone project. The courses are free, but if you want a Verified Certificate in the course, the Specialization Certificate or taking the Capstone Project, there is a small charge for that.
- Do you know where people are going after college? Ben Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, was curious about careers after college degrees, so he used a quick Sankey diagram to look at data from the American Community Survey.
- Robert Seaton shares more than 100 interesting data sets for statistics. If you are looking for some numbers to get your hands dirty, this is the place to visit.
- Cartesian Faith publishes the second chapter of his book (available for free on his website) called Modeling data with functional programming in R.
- Nina Zumel from Win-Vector LLC discusses some useful tricks with the R function glm() in her recent blog post titled Trimming the Fat from glm() Models in R.
- And finally, if you learned R in its early days (early 2000s or before), you may still be using some old-fashioned ways to accomplish some tasks better served by newer functions and packages. To help you become a better R coder, Revolution Analytics offers hipsteR: Learn what you missed in R as an early adopter.