Johns Hopkins University Courses

The Data Scientist’s Toolbox

166 reviews

In this course you will get an introduction to the main tools and ideas in the data scientist's toolbox. The course gives an overview of the data, questions, and tools that data analysts and data scientists work with. There are two components to this cou…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 29th Nov, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

R Programming

246 reviews

In this course you will learn how to program in R and how to use R for effective data analysis. You will learn how to install and configure software necessary for a statistical programming environment and describe generic programming language concepts as…

• Coursera
• 57 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 29th Nov, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Psychological First Aid

47 reviews

Learn to provide psychological first aid to people in an emergency by employing the RAPID model: Reflective listening, Assessment of needs, Prioritization, Intervention, and Disposition.

• Coursera
• 6 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Getting and Cleaning Data

57 reviews

Before you can work with data you have to get some. This course will cover the basic ways that data can be obtained. The course will cover obtaining data from the web, from APIs, from databases and from colleagues in various formats. It will also cover t…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 29th Nov, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Exploratory Data Analysis

39 reviews

This course covers the essential exploratory techniques for summarizing data. These techniques are typically applied before formal modeling commences and can help inform the development of more complex statistical models. Exploratory techniques are also…

• Coursera
• 1 week long
• 2 weeks from now (20th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

A Crash Course in Data Science

23 reviews

By now you have definitely heard about data science and big data. In this one-week class, we will provide a crash course in what these terms mean and how they play a role in successful organizations. This class is for anyone who wants to learn what all t…

• Coursera
• 7 hours worth of material, 1 week long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Statistical Inference

34 reviews

Statistical inference is the process of drawing conclusions about populations or scientific truths from data. There are many modes of performing inference including statistical modeling, data oriented strategies and explicit use of designs and randomizat…

• Coursera
• 54 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 29th Nov, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Regression Models

34 reviews

Linear models, as their name implies, relates an outcome to a set of predictors of interest using linear assumptions. Regression models, a subset of linear models, are the most important statistical analysis tool in a data scientist’s toolkit. This cour…

• Coursera
• 53 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 29th Nov, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Algorithms for DNA Sequencing

17 reviews

We will learn computational methods -- algorithms and data structures -- for analyzing DNA sequencing data. We will learn a little about DNA, genomics, and how DNA sequencing is used. We will use Python to implement key algorithms and data structures an…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (13th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1

17 reviews

This class presents the fundamental probability and statistical concepts used in elementary data analysis. It will be taught at an introductory level for students with junior or senior college-level mathematical training including a working knowledge of…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (13th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Building a Data Science Team

14 reviews

Data science is a team sport. As a data science executive it is your job to recruit, organize, and manage the team to success. In this one-week course, we will cover how you can find the right people to fill out your data science team, how to organize th…

• Coursera
• 5 hours worth of material, 1 week long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Ruby on Rails: An Introduction

56 reviews

Did you ever want to build a web application? Perhaps you even started down that path in a language like Java or C#, when you realized that there was so much “climbing the mountain” that you had to do? Maybe you have heard about web services being all t…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Python for Genomic Data Science

13 reviews

This class provides an introduction to the Python programming language and the iPython notebook. This is the third course in the Genomic Big Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins University.

• Coursera
• 8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (13th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Reproducible Research

27 reviews

This course focuses on the concepts and tools behind reporting modern data analyses in a reproducible manner. Reproducible research is the idea that data analyses, and more generally, scientific claims, are published with their data and software code so…

• Coursera
• 7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 29th Nov, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Science in Real Life

12 reviews

Have you ever had the perfect data science experience? The data pull went perfectly. There were no merging errors or missing data. Hypotheses were clearly defined prior to analyses. Randomization was performed for the treatment of interest. The analytic…

• Coursera
• 7 hours worth of material, 1 week long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)