Brandt Pence - MOOC transcript, reviews, and interests

Bioconductor for Genomic Data Science Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

The Bioconductor course is technically sixth in the Genomic Data Science specialization, although I skipped directly to this after taking the third co… See full review

Introduction to Genomic Technologies Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 1 out 5

This is the first course in the new (at the time of this writing) Genomic Data Science specialization, offered by Johns Hopkins through … See full review

The Data Scientist’s Toolbox Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 2 out 5

This is the first course in the Data Science specialization, offered by Johns Hopkins through Coursera. The official schedule lists the time commitmen… See full review

R Programming Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

This is the second course in the Data Science specialization, and it is the foundation course for the rest of the classes. Many reviewers online will … See full review

Getting and Cleaning Data Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

This is the third course in the Data Science specialization. The course is all about how to read data of different formats into R and how to create ti… See full review

Exploratory Data Analysis Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 3 out 5

This is the fourth course in the Data Science specialization. The course covers exploratory analyses in R, primarily making figures using the three mo… See full review

Statistical Inference Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 3 out 5

Statistical Inference is the sixth course in the Data Science specialization, and the first course in the analytical portion of the course (followed b… See full review

Regression Models Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 2 out 5

Regression Models is the seventh course in the Data Science specialization. As with Statistical Inference, it is taught by Brian Caffo and suffers fro… See full review

Data Management and Visualization Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 3 out 5

This is the first course in what was a new (at the time I took it) specialization covering data analysis using Python 3 or SAS. This first course mos… See full review

Explore Statistics with R Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 2 out 5

This course, offered by the Karolinska Institute, is a gentle introduction to the R language. I have to admit that I only watched a few of the videos.… See full review

Statistics and R Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

(Note, I took this before the reorganization of the courses. I believe the material in the first two-three courses remains the same, so my comments s… See full review

Advanced Bioconductor Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 3 out 5

(Note I took these prior to their reorganization/combination. Back then they were 4 one-week courses, of which I took three, so I will review those m… See full review

Introduction to Bioconductor Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

(Note that I took these before the recent reorganization. I believe portions of this course are now included in a different course in this sequence.)… See full review

Case study: DNA methylation data analysis Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

(Note, these case studies seem to have been combined into one course recently).

This is the fourth and final case study and 8th and final… See full review

Reproducible Research Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

Reproducible Research is the fifth course in the Data Science specialization, and the last course in what could reasonably be considered the basic R i… See full review

Genomic Data Science with Galaxy Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 2 out 5

I took the first offering of this, the second course in the Genomic Data Science specialization, and there are a number of issues that I hope the spec… See full review

Python for Genomic Data Science Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 2 out 5

This is the third course in the Genomic Data Science specialization. I have mixed feelings about this course. Much of the lecture material and the qui… See full review

Introduction to Linear Models and Matrix Algebra Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

(Note, I took these courses before the recent reorganization. I believe the material for the first few courses is the same, so my comments should sti… See full review

Statistical Inference and Modeling for High-throughput Experiments Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

(Note I took these before the recent reorganization. I believe most of the material from the first few courses has remained relatively the same.)
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High-Dimensional Data Analysis Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

This is the first class in the new (at the time I took it) Python for Everybody specialization, which grew out of Dr. Charles Severence's popular cour… See full review

Introduction to Probability and Data with R Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 3 out 5

This is the first course in the new (at the time of this writing) Statistics with R specialization from Duke. This specialization comes out of the po… See full review

Developing Data Products Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

This is the final course before the capstone in the Data Science specialization from Johns Hopkins on Coursera. Overall this is one of the coolest co… See full review

Practical Machine Learning Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

This is the second-to-last course in the Data Science specialization from Johns Hopkins, and the final of three courses covering actual data analysis … See full review

Inferential Statistics Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 3 out 5

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Statistics for Genomic Data Science Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 3 out 5

This is the final course in the Genomic Data Science specialization from Johns Hopkins. This course covers some statistical techniques in genomics us… See full review

Python Data Structures Course reviewed 4 years ago

Brandt Pence's rating 4 out 5

This is the second course in the Python for Everybody specialization, and corresponds to the second half of the previous course of the same name. As … See full review

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