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Permalink Reply by Larry on May 12, 2010 at 11:13am

If you are wanting a quick fix to statistical knowledge you may want to seek out a local community college (if in the U.S.). There a great number of excellent instructors at the Community College level and classes can be registered on a good budget. Just a thought.

Also there are a number of online videos in R, data mining, and introductory statistics.

http://www.google.com/search?q=data+mining&tbo=p&tbs=vid%3A...

I highly recommend the Stats202 videos as they are prepared like a college lecture.

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Permalink Reply by Alain Pilon on May 12, 2010 at 11:59am

Thx for the suggestions. I should have stated that going back to school is out of the question for me. I learn much faster than the average person so getting stuck in a classroom can bore me in less than 5 minutes. I was thinking about hiring a stat student to mentor me but since I have some serious time constrains (baby and new house on the way) I think I will start with the online course you pointed me to. thx

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Permalink Reply by Jeff on May 12, 2010 at 1:52pm

Alain,

Check out the other recent posts on graduate certificates. Especially Central Connecticut State where the courses are online and thus self paced. You can really make most of the courses as robust as you'd like (if you are a quick study) given that they are project based. You'll get a grounding in statistics, linear models and such as well.

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Permalink Reply by Larry on May 13, 2010 at 7:11am

Also take a look at Open Courseware. There are some really good resources open and online from high level academic institutions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare

I suggest using the OCW search links
http://www.ocwfinder.org/
http://www.ocwsearch.com/

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Permalink Reply by Alain Pilon on May 13, 2010 at 5:25pm

Thanks a lot guys for these quality links! I now have a lot of content to read/watch!

I am starting with the Google 202 videos for the intro until my R book arrives. You will see me here in a few weeks with more questions ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Larry on May 14, 2010 at 6:19am

If you are interested in the latest R news have a read at http://www.r-bloggers.com/. Its an aggregrate of a bunch of R blogs. I read it daily for updates.

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Permalink Reply by Vikram Patil on May 15, 2010 at 3:38am

Hi Alain,

I am going through similar dilemma. I have enrolled at UCSD for data mining certificate. But big question I am facing is how to get an experience in data mining area. I am hoping that UCSD certificate will help me to gain basic knowledge in this area .

Thanks & Regards,
Vikram

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