Since I have a rather quiet month of August, I browsed through the Coursera catalog, and found that all the courses from the Johns Hopkins Data Science specialization are repeated on a monthly basis; the next starting date is August 4th, which is next Monday.
So, cool. I signed up for “R Programming”, then figured out I'd check the other ones out, and well, to give me a taste of the sequence (because well, maybe I'll want to do the whole thing) I clicked on the introductory course, “The Data Scientist's Toolbox” − and found that although the course doesn't officially start until Monday, all the content is already available. And so, I clicked through…
… and finished the course four hours later (having taken breaks to give a bath to then feed and put to bed my toddler, then put dinner in the oven…)
Well, it's introductory, I already know the tools concerned (Github? I use it, like, daily…), so there wasn't much challenge. The “course project” was basically setup a Github account and install RStudio.
We'll see what happens with the R Programming course; if it's that easy… I don't know. Maybe I'll pony up (35€ per course; at a couple of hours a pop, that's much more expensive than the cinema) for the verified certificate if the following courses are good.
But in the meantime − it's pretty much the fastest MOOC I've ever done. Started and ended two days before it's due? I rock.
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