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Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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Post by dhawalhs »

jlengrand wrote: post #25
dhawalhs wrote: post #21

Here is a list of all Coursera courses sorted by ratings: https://www.classcentral.com/provider/coursera?sort=rating-u... You can also filter by subjects i.e Computer Science, Data Science. Humanities, Mathematics, etc. Disclaimer: I am the founder.

Oh, thanks so much for that! This link showed me I have interest for things I did not even know existed on the platform. I mean, Mountains 101, Poetry? Awesome!

I would personally recommend Learning how to Learn!

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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Post by ajot »

Experimentation for Improvement [0], taught by Kevin Dunn [1][2]. It's not very difficult to follow, and teaches some basics of experiment design. It's explained in a very well suited manner for non-academics, with examples about how you can implement this kind of experiments to improve things at home or at work.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/experimentation [1] https://learnche.org/ [2] https://github.com/kgdunn

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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Post by suls »

bhaprayan wrote: post #14

I enjoyed taking Model Thinking: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking It's designed to be a foundation course for subsequent social science classes, but I personally found the exposure to models from different fields of study to be quite insightful. If you're interested, there's also a book by the professor on the same topic: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39088592-the-model-th...

Came here to say the same. Especially now that the world is struggling with SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, understanding these different models helps a lot!

Last but not least, Scott E. Page is a great educator. Glad to hear there is a book from him now -- his papers were a good read as well during/after the course.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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Post by X6S1x6Okd1st »

ronyfadel wrote: post #26
interdrift wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not that good of a course, from someone who already did it

Care to explain why? Anyone else who did it care to chime in?

Due to the low quality of the video and audio I honestly struggled to want to go through the material.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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Post by xkgt »

bhaprayan wrote: post #14

I enjoyed taking Model Thinking: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking It's designed to be a foundation course for subsequent social science classes, but I personally found the exposure to models from different fields of study to be quite insightful. If you're interested, there's also a book by the professor on the same topic: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39088592-the-model-th...

I took this course few years back as well. Quite enjoyed it at that time. Recommended!

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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Post by smabie »

vba wrote: post #24
smabie wrote: post #23

Let me recommend you an udacity course instead. This is hands down the best course I've ever taken in my life: AI for Trading https://www.udacity.com/course/ai-for-trading--nd880 Includes an introduction to finance/markets, and goes into strategies, multi-factor models, and deep learning. Great projects too!

I haven’t taken it, but what made it so great. Do you/can you apply what you’ve learnt?

Yeah, totally. If you're talking professionally, it helped me make the transition from a pure dev role at a financial firm to a quantitative front-end role. If you're talking about personal projects, it helps a lot if you want to develop your own quantitative trading strategies. I've been using https://www.quantopian.com/ to develop strategies and am currently trying to get on the board for their contest https://www.quantopian.com/contest. I'm hoping to try and get an allocation from them. They currently manage somewhere around a couple hundred millions dollars and allocate money to various algorithms that win the context, allowing you to net a percentage of profits of the strategy.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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Post by pvarangot »

ronyfadel wrote: post #26
interdrift wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not that good of a course, from someone who already did it

Care to explain why? Anyone else who did it care to chime in?

It was good like 10 years ago and it did age well but it's a little bit outdated on the video/audio quality and the tools and algorithms you learn about. I think it's surprisingly up to date for a fundamentals course that old, but still a bit outdated.
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