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8 Free MIT Courses of DS

The document recommends 4 free MIT courses to learn data science online: 1) Introduction to Computer Science and Programming to learn Python coding, 2) Introduction to Probability and Statistics to learn statistics principles, 3) Single Variable Calculus and Multivariable Calculus to learn foundational math, and 4) Introduction to Machine Learning to learn machine learning concepts. These courses are designed for beginners and cover the essential topics, but move quickly so completing all exercises is recommended.

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8 Free MIT Courses of DS

The document recommends 4 free MIT courses to learn data science online: 1) Introduction to Computer Science and Programming to learn Python coding, 2) Introduction to Probability and Statistics to learn statistics principles, 3) Single Variable Calculus and Multivariable Calculus to learn foundational math, and 4) Introduction to Machine Learning to learn machine learning concepts. These courses are designed for beginners and cover the essential topics, but move quickly so completing all exercises is recommended.

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8 Free MIT Courses

to Learn
Data Science
Online
1

Step 1: Learn to code


I highly recommend learning a programming
language before going deep into the math and
theory behind data science models. Once you learn
to code, you will be able to work with real-world
datasets and get a feel of how predictive algorithms
function.

MIT Open Courseware offers a beginner-friendly


Python program for beginners, called Introduction
to Computer Science and Programming.

This course is designed to help people with no prior


coding experience to write programs to tackle
useful problems.

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Step 2: Statistics
Statistics is at the core of every data science
workflow — it is required when building a predictive
model, analyzing trends in large amounts of data,
or selecting useful features to feed into your model.

MIT Open Courseware offers a beginner-friendly


course called Introduction to Probability and
Statistics. After taking this course, you will learn the
basic principles of statistical inference and
probability. Some concepts covered include
conditional probability, Bayes theorem, covariance,
central limit theorem, resampling, and linear
regression.

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Statistics
This course will also walk you through statistical
analysis using the R programming language, which
is useful as it adds on to your tool stack as a data
scientist.

Another useful program offered by MIT for free is


called Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis. This is
another elementary course in the subject that will
take you through different data analysis techniques
in Excel, R, and Matlab.

You will learn about data collection, analysis,


different types of sampling distributions, statistical
inference, linear regression, multiple linear
regression, and nonparametric statistical methods.

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Step 3: Foundational
Math Skills
Calculus and linear algebra are two other
branches of math that are used in the field of
machine learning. Taking a course or two in
these subjects will give you a different
perspective of how predictive models function,
and the working behind the underlying
algorithm.

To learn calculus, you can take Single Variable


Calculus offered by MIT for free, followed by
Multivariable Calculus.

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Foundational Math Skills


Then, you can take this Linear Algebra class by
Prof. Gilbert Strang to get a strong grasp of the
subject.

All of the above courses are offered by MIT


Open Courseware, and are paired with lecture
notes, problem sets, exam questions, and
solutions.

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Step 4: Machine Learning


Finally, you can use the knowledge gained in the
courses above to take MIT’s Introduction to
Machine Learning course. This program will walk
you through the implementation of predictive
models in Python.

The core focus of this course is in supervised and


reinforcement learning problems, and you will be
taught concepts such as generalization and how
overfitting can be mitigated. Apart from just
working with structured datasets, you will also
learn to process image and sequential data.

MIT’s machine learning program cites three pre-


requisites — Python, linear algebra, and calculus,
which is why it is advisable to take the courses
above before starting this one.

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Are These Courses


Beginner-Friendly?
Even if you have no prior knowledge of
programming, statistics, or mathematics,
you can take all the courses listed above.

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MIT has designed these programs to take you


through the subject from scratch. However,
unlike many MOOCs out there, the pace does
build up pretty quickly and the courses cover a
large depth of information.

Due to this, it is advisable to do all the


exercises that come with the lectures and work
through all the reading material provided.

✒ Natassha Selvaraj

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Stay in touch !

@DataCleanic

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