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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by ycombinator_usr on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:32PM (#16747020)
if you want to focus on Statistical Learning, I can recommend Introduction to Statistical Learning Using R[1] by Prof. Hastie and Tibshirani.

[1]: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by harry8 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:42PM (#16750844)
I found the lectures entertaining and the exercises of a much lower quality. Not enough of them, shallow and ambiguously worded.

I got something like 90% on the edx MITx probability course and was barely getting 50% for the above mentioned Stanford stat learning course for the 5 weeks of it I completed. I mention the MIT course, (which I highly recommend fwiw) only to support my view that I don't think my experience is aptitude or workload related. But as ever YMMV.

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