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CS109 Data Science
- makmanalp 8y agoI took this class last year (some variations, less material covered more deeply) and it was a great survey course for someone who had programming experience but was lacking in stats and ML background!
- davidwihl 8y agoThe latest material for Spring 2018 can be found at https://github.com/cs109/2018-cs109b https://github.com/cs109/2018-cs109b I was a TF and gave a couple of lectures. AMA.
- supermx1 8y agoWhat is your opinion of the Harvard CS extension programs?
- davidwihl 8y agoI’m a huge fan of the Extension program. It enables access to great courses and if you do well and are in a degree program you can get special student status opening up the college and grad school class listings.
- 2_listerine_pls 8y agoThere is a Harvard MOOC on data science being hosted at edx. What's your opinion on it? How does it compare to 109?
- nsomaru 8y agoHow deep does your stats knowledge need to be to understand this?
- solomatov 8y agoI had knowledge of basic statistics and it worked fine for me (though I had some math education before the course).
- solomatov 8y agoI took this class in 2015, it's a great class. Unfortunately, the material from the course are several years old and they stopped updating it.
- dang 8y agoDiscussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155459.
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- asafira 8y agoI disagree with others here --- I wasn't a huge fan of the class. If you took the class, you definitely had to get used to coding in python, and getting used to manipulating data in python. However, when it came time to do anything more interesting than plotting data, the course was very shallow --- many homework assignments boiled down to "fill in this space with a function that takes this as input and outputs that". While, again, that would totally be useful to someone learning basic scientific python, you don't get a good understanding of the statistics. As someone who already had a background in python, I didn't feel I learned as much.
- davidwihl 8y agoDid you take 109B, the second semester course? Or did you take it when it was only one semester?
- nahom1 8y agoAlso, the course walks over a few common ML algos and provides some predefined datasets as well. Fairly good course, in fact, developers in my team build custom models for our internal hackday only by following this course and a few open datasets. I guess the datasets were from here: https://dataturks.com/projects/trending https://dataturks.com/projects/trending
- bmpafa 8y agoSimilarly structured course on data visualization w/ d3. covers the fundamentals of the art (mostly Tufte) alongside a pretty decent intro to using d3. http://www.cs171.org/2017/index.html http://www.cs171.org/2017/index.html
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