Posts Tagged ‘cbb752’

Registration open for spring MOOCs: Free online learning with Yale experts

January 9, 2015

Spring #MOOCs [open]…Online Learning w/ @Yale Experts
http://news.yale.edu/2014/12/22/registration-open-spring-moocs-free-online-learning-yale-experts 6 total: 4 soc science, 2 humanities, 0 natural science

Neural Networks Demystified Part 1: Data and Architecture – YouTube

December 30, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxe2T-V8XRs

Big Data and Its Technical Challenges | July 2014 | Communications of the ACM

August 30, 2014

#BigData & Its Technical Challenges
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/7/176204-big-data-and-its-technical-challenges/abstract Data acquisition, cleaning, aggregation, analysis, visualization & interpretation

Analysis of Over 2,000 Computer Science Professors at Top Universities

June 2, 2014

Re my listing of #bioinformatics programs, see the Analysis of >2K CS Profs at Top Us: #crowdsourcing at its best!
http://jeffhuang.com/computer_science_professors.html

Inferring Cellular Networks Using Probabilistic Graphical Models

May 26, 2014

Inferring… #Networks Using Probabilistic Graphical Models. Nice intro to #Bayesian methods, useful for #teaching
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/303/5659/799.abs

What is a support vector machine?

February 5, 2014

What is a support vector machine? A nice overview w/o equations, just pictures. Great for #teaching!
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n12/abs/nbt1206-1565.html #SVM .@GenomeNathan YES, but see
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/papers/noble_what.html …, which has an expanded, “free” version.
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/papers/noble_what.html
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n12/abs/nbt1206-1565.html

Choosing the right estimator — scikit-learn 0.14 documentation

December 8, 2013

Might be good for course slides!

MT @sjackman @anshul
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_map … is useful for #teaching, providing students a practical way to wade through all the approaches

MOOC on bioinformatics

September 30, 2013

Pavel Pevzner is starting a MOOC on Bioinformatics in Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/course/bioinformatics) and 23 & me is starting a MOOC on genomics in udacity
(https://www.udacity.com/course/bio110).

MOOC URLs

August 24, 2013

URLs for a couple of courses recommended on Coursera:

Parallel Programming – especially with GPUs (Wenmei Hwu, UIUC): https://class.coursera.org/hetero-2012-001/class

Machine Learning (Andrew Ng, Stanford):
https://class.coursera.org/ml-003/class

Free online MIT courses are an education revolution – opinion – 15 July 2013 – New Scientist

July 27, 2013

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929250.300-free-online-mit-courses-are-an-education-revolution.html#.UfM9jWSG1A8 EdX head: “If you combine online with in-person, you get the best of both worlds.”