Data Science and Analytics: Open Educational Resources

Coursera partners top universities and organizations to offer free courses online.

edX was founded by Harvard University and MIT offering free online courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere.

Github public domain compilation of learning resources for data science and big data related concepts, techniques and applications.

Follow the learning path which introduces Data Science from a practitioner point of view, to courses that discuss topics such as data compilation, preparation and modeling throughout the life-cycle of data science from basic concepts and methodologies to advanced algorithms. It also discusses how to get some practical knowledge with open source tools.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching (MERLOT) developed by the California State University Center Distributed Learning offers access to open educational materials.

Supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network. Open textbooks have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost.

This is the website for “R for Data Science” which is free to use, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.