I had passed the, well, passing threshold a while ago, but it's always nice to get a high overall score. What I'm surprised about is my competition score, I thought I'd done quite poorly but I still got 82%.
So in the end, the final took me about four hours, and I made a number of stupid mistakes. Mostly because I'm absolutely knackered − I shouldn't, really, have attempted the final when I am well less than firing on all pistons, so to speak, but hey, aside from my amour-propre, there was no risk as I'd already secured a pass.
In total, it wasn't the most fun course I've taken, but it's certainly one in which I've learned a lot. While certainly not fluent in R, I have enough basic skills to fool around and try and analyze data; plus I now have a decent understanding of what data analysts do, which is a plus. While I'll never become an actuary or something like that, there is little doubt those basic skills will be of use in my future life.
So… this being out of the way, what now? This week also finish the Diabetes course from Copenhagen and the Statistics course from Berkeley; I've secured a pass for the first one, as for the second, edX's recent release reminded me that I registered as an auditor (because since I'd joined late, I didn't think I could actually pass the course − while I perfectly could). So I think I'll give the final a miss.
Ongoing courses are now: MongoDB M202, Epigenetics in Melbourne, and Astrophysics in Canberra. And that's all until June 2nd, when the Georgetown “Genomics Medicine Gets Personal” and the third part of Berkeley's Statistics course start, followed a week later by MIT's 7.QBWx.
But overall, the MOOC pressure is going down. I'll be doing 3 courses for the rest of May, 4 courses in June, then it drops back to 3 in July; August has only one course scheduled (Exoplanets). Compared with my current 6 (or 7, if you really want to count the joke that is Social Physics), it'll feel like holidays. Nice; I could do with a rest.
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