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The document discusses free online resources for learning data science from top universities like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley. It provides examples of free courses, lectures, seminars, and course materials available on platforms like MIT OpenCourseWare, Columbia's Github repo for its machine learning course, Stanford's YouTube channel, Harvard's online courses on edX, and Berkeley's MOOCs on edX that cover topics in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

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Master Data Science Online

The document discusses free online resources for learning data science from top universities like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley. It provides examples of free courses, lectures, seminars, and course materials available on platforms like MIT OpenCourseWare, Columbia's Github repo for its machine learning course, Stanford's YouTube channel, Harvard's online courses on edX, and Berkeley's MOOCs on edX that cover topics in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

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Learn Data Science from Top Universities for


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Where to find free lectures, seminars and complete courses from the likes of MIT,
Stanford and Harvard

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Jun 15 · 4 min read
Photo by Vasily Koloda on Unsplash

I’m currently reading a book called ‘Ultralearning. Accelerate Your Career, Master
Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition’. This book talks about a learning
technique that allows you to learn new skills and even completely new subjects
in seemingly impossible time frames. According to the book, Ultralearning is “a
strategy for acquiring skills and knowledge that is both self-directed and
intense”.

The author of the book, Scott H Young, famously completed a personal


challenge using ultralearning. The challenge that he set himself was to learn the
entire 4-year MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) curriculum for
computer science in just 12 months. He successfully completed the challenge in
2012 and recorded a Ted Talk about his experiences called ‘Can you get an MIT
education for $2,000?’.

Can you get an MIT education for $2,000 by Scott H Young


Scott H Young was only able to complete his challenge for $2,000 because MIT
makes most of their course material and lectures available for free via an online
portal.

MIT is not the only university that does this. Many of the high ranking US
universities make courses, lectures and other learning material available for
free. Amongst this, is a wealth of material that is highly and often directly
applicable to learning data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Many of the high ranking US universities make


courses, lectures and other learning material
available for free.
I previously wrote an article called “How to Learn Data Science for Free” which
provides an alternative, and free, learning path compared to more traditional
university degree programs. However, if you are someone who learns better
through a more traditional lecture-based course or would like to supplement this
curriculum with deeper dive into related subjects the following free resources
can help.

. . .

MIT, OpenCourseWare
MIT is one of the leading institutes for both teaching and research in the field of
modern computing. In 2001, the university launched its OpenCourseWare
platform. The aim of which is to make lecture notes, problem sets, exams and
video lectures, for the vast majority of its courses, available for free online.

There is a wealth of material here for data science-related subjects. Some of my


personal favourites include:
• Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science.

• Mathematics of Machine Learning.

• Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python.

• Data, Models and Decisions.

Data, Models and Decisions — Course Outline, MIT OpenCourseWare

. . .
Columbia, Applied Machine Learning
Andreas C. Muller, one of the core developers for the popular Python machine
learning library Scikit-learn, is also a Research Scientist and lecturer at
Columbia University.

Each year he publishes all material for his ‘Applied Machine Learning’ Course
online. All the slides, lecture notes and homework assignments for the course
are available in this Github repo.

The material in the repo is actually some of the best I’ve seen covering the area
of actually applying machine learning in the real world. In addition to covering
all aspects of the machine learning process from data exploration and cleaning
to model evaluation and tuning, it also covers Github, unit testing and
continuous integration. All extremely important aspects when you are applying
machine learning in a real-world situation.

A snapshot of the schedule for the ‘Applied Machine Learning Course’ at Columbia
. . .

Stanford, Seminars
The Stanford School of Engineering regularly makes a selected number of its
seminars available for free online. There are a select number of data science-
related seminars available including ‘Human-Computer Interaction’, and ‘Robotics
and Autonomous Systems’.You can find them via this link.

In addition, Stanford uploads many of its seminars and lectures to it’s Youtube
channel — you can find that here. There are a wealth of videos covering data
science, machine learning and deep learning on the channel.

Free Seminars, Stanford University

. . .

Free Online Courses, Harvard


Harvard University publishes a selection of completely free online courses on its
website. The courses are mostly hosted by edX so you also have the option of
pursuing certification for each course for a small payment.
There are some really excellent courses here for learning data science. These
include the following top picks, although there are many others:

• Principles, Statistical and Computational Tools for Reproducible Data


Science.

• CS50: Introduction to Computer Science.

• Introduction to Linear Models and Matrix Algebra.

• CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python.

Free Online Courses, Harvard University

. . .

Berkeley, MOOCs
The University of California, Berkeley also publish a range of courses on edX.org.
There are some excellent data science-related courses including:

• Data Science: Machine Learning and Predictions.


• Data Science: Computational Thinking with Python.

• Data Science and Engineering with Spark.

. . .

There is such a wealth of free material available online for learning data science.
This article covers some of the more traditional lecture-based approaches from
high ranking universities. For more alternative resources I previously published
my top 5 here.

Thanks for reading!

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this link. Looking forward to being part of your learning journey!

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