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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

#101
I really enjoied Introduction to Operations Management (https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-operations) which is not about CS/IT but more about organizing process workflow (i.e. how to make shops, plants or any kind of multi-operator job more efficient).

I also liked a Coursera one titled "Data Analysis" but the url now returns a 404 (https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis) and it probably morphed in something slightly different.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

#102

Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com/ It's not tech-related, but I have achieved near-fluency in one language in less than a year (Dutch), and I'm currently learning 3-4 others. (Russian, German, French, Italian) I find it very effective and easy to fit in around everyday life. I would definitely recommend it to anyone else seeking to learn languages.

Are you living in the Netherlands and/or doing any study outside Duolingo?

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

#105
Eric Lander's incredible 'Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life' was my first step away from data analysis for online marketing clients (which I didn't love) to bioinformatics (which I do very much love)

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-biology-secret-life-...

A Fantastic course from a legendary educator.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

#107
Convolutional Networks from Stanford [1]. No video, but comes with a wonderful set of ipython notebooks to illustrate and work with cnn's.

Statistical Mechanics Algorithms and Computations [2]. Very well done video's shot in a studio with a green screen. Comes with massive amounts of small python programs to illustrate the material.

[1]: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/

[2]: https://www.coursera.org/course/smac

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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My all star lineup would be: The Analytics Edge - https://www.edx.org/course/analytics-edge-mitx-15-071x-0 Design of Computer Programs - https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--... Justice - https://www.edx.org/course/justice-harvardx-er22-1x-0 If I had more time I would love to go through the bioinformatics specialization on Coursera. They have 2 books and an exercise site (rosalind.info). It loo…

Design of Computer Programs was decidedly the best course I ever took online. I was lucky enough to take it when it was first offered. Peter Norvig was very active in the course forum.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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post #49

My all star lineup would be: The Analytics Edge - https://www.edx.org/course/analytics-edge-mitx-15-071x-0 Design of Computer Programs - https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--... Justice - https://www.edx.org/course/justice-harvardx-er22-1x-0 If I had more time I would love to go through the bioinformatics specialization on Coursera. They have 2 books and an exercise site (rosalind.info). It loo…

+1 for The Analytics Edge.

Along the same lines but a more thorough treatment of linear regression and statistical inference is the excellent Data Analysis and Statistical Inference https://www.coursera.org/course/statistics

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