A few days ago I was browsing LinkedIn when I stumbled upon a profile of an italian guy that does a really cool job in California. Don't judge me: I'm not used to stalk strangers on social media, but I saw the italian name and that he used MongoDB for work and I was curious to know where this guy was working.
By the way, on his profile I saw some really nice badges from an external site called CodeSchool.com. I love badges, I've had a serious 4square-addiction some years ago, and now I'm a passionate collector of badges on TvShowTime. So when I discovered Code School I entered the "Gotta catch 'em all!" mode and signed up for a free plan in one minute.
The list of things I want to learn in life is quite long and is getting longer and longer in time, on top of it recently there are some stuff I didn't have the chance to learn at the University and some foreign languages (German above all). So the first class I experimented with was the TryGit, a quick tutorial to learn the basics of Git (I admit, I've never used Github before. Shame on me.).
Then I moved to the top of my above-mentioned list and - finally - started my first class on R. I've heard tons of people talk about it but since it has been introduced to my University program right after my graduation I didn't get to learn it in my beloved data mining course.
I've been thinking of learning R for quite some time, but I never had the right motivation. Until I discovered these nice badges, of course. So I started the R class on Code School. The platform, in fact, offers for free a full class of 8 lectures on R. It is one of the few complete classes available for free as for most of them is required a monthly subscription of 29$/month (or 19$/month if you are a student or pay for the whole year). This one instead is sponsored by O'Reilly so it is totally available for free.
Currently I finished the first 3 classes, covering basics, vectors and matrices and I'm already deeply in love with this programming language. If possibile, it seems to be even easier than Python! It even has built-in functions for data-visualization! I mean you just give a vector as input to the scatterplot function and it draws you a nice scatterplot! It's even easier than Excel!
Ok, I know I may sound as a crazy that has just discovered hot water (is it a saying in English?), but.. well I suppose I'm a crazy that has just discovered the best programming language for data science!
So that is all for now, it's time to get back to my R course! Meanwhile, feel free to suggest me some other free classes for R in the comments! I can't wait to learn more!
By the way, on his profile I saw some really nice badges from an external site called CodeSchool.com. I love badges, I've had a serious 4square-addiction some years ago, and now I'm a passionate collector of badges on TvShowTime. So when I discovered Code School I entered the "Gotta catch 'em all!" mode and signed up for a free plan in one minute.
The list of things I want to learn in life is quite long and is getting longer and longer in time, on top of it recently there are some stuff I didn't have the chance to learn at the University and some foreign languages (German above all). So the first class I experimented with was the TryGit, a quick tutorial to learn the basics of Git (I admit, I've never used Github before. Shame on me.).
Then I moved to the top of my above-mentioned list and - finally - started my first class on R. I've heard tons of people talk about it but since it has been introduced to my University program right after my graduation I didn't get to learn it in my beloved data mining course.
I've been thinking of learning R for quite some time, but I never had the right motivation. Until I discovered these nice badges, of course. So I started the R class on Code School. The platform, in fact, offers for free a full class of 8 lectures on R. It is one of the few complete classes available for free as for most of them is required a monthly subscription of 29$/month (or 19$/month if you are a student or pay for the whole year). This one instead is sponsored by O'Reilly so it is totally available for free.
Currently I finished the first 3 classes, covering basics, vectors and matrices and I'm already deeply in love with this programming language. If possibile, it seems to be even easier than Python! It even has built-in functions for data-visualization! I mean you just give a vector as input to the scatterplot function and it draws you a nice scatterplot! It's even easier than Excel!
Ok, I know I may sound as a crazy that has just discovered hot water (is it a saying in English?), but.. well I suppose I'm a crazy that has just discovered the best programming language for data science!
So that is all for now, it's time to get back to my R course! Meanwhile, feel free to suggest me some other free classes for R in the comments! I can't wait to learn more!
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