John Mee
The practical nature of the Analytics for Data Science certificate program has allowed me to have meaningful conversations with the company’s analytics community to deliver real business value.
The practical nature of the Analytics for Data Science certificate program has allowed me to have meaningful conversations with the company’s analytics community to deliver real business value.
The dimension reduction and classification techniques taught in this program are helping me enormously in my work at the Bank.
This was a great class. I learned a lot and enjoyed the format. The lessons, assignments, feedback, and discussions were all informative. I appreciate Professor Unwin's efforts to include references to web sites, journal articles, and books that will be very useful in the future.…
The Instructor, Dave Unwin, was great. I have to admit that I had my reservations about taking an online course, but I was pleasantly surprised. Dave obviously put a lot of thought and effort into creating the materials for the course as well as structuring the…
It was perfect, much recommended to anybody wanting to understand the dynamics behind political microtargeting and how it can be applied to business. Many theoretical aspects that were known in the past have been empirically implemented with wonderful exercises of Mr. Ken Strasma.
This was the first class I've taken in a long time, the first online course I've ever taken, and my first statsics.com course. I found it very easy to navigate and was pleasantly surprised at how involved the instructor was in the online discussion. Great…
The Statistics.com courses have helped me a lot, pushing me to the limit and making me learn much more than I expected I could. The knowledge I gained I could immediately leverage in my job and eventually led to landing a job in my dream…
The book for this course is very good. Everything is explained in a really clear way. Videos were great too and help in understanding issues.
Anthony did a great job of answering questions, adding explanations and expanding on ideas. The best teacher I have had at statistics.com so far
The videos are excellent! The information is presented in a very clear and effective way.
Thank you so much Professors for this useful course. I very much liked XLMiner, it is indeed a very simple yet powerful tool
This was a real eye-opener to me. In short, a real joy to follow this course and be part of this learning process. It also helped me to see links I didn't see before where I could use different methods to improve upon.
The tools and understanding gained in this course are absolutely vital to the practice of data analytics (at least to an acceptable standard). Thank you for a great course. I have learned an incredible amount
I have truly enjoyed this course with Professor Babinec! All the courses I have taken statistics.com have met my expectations and made me happy because of my professional growth, but this course as well as the course on Likelihood Estimation have surpassed all my expectations!!
Thank you for the excellent course. I appreciated the timely and detailed responses from Dr. Babinec (for e.g. normalization example when non-numeric predictors are involved). Discussions initiated by other students were also very valuable - esp for PCA and Clusters
The more courses I take at Statistics.com, the more appreciation I have for the smart approach, quality of instructors, assistants, admin and program. Well done!
Instructor gave good, understandable answers on the board, and several nice summaries of topics we were covering.
Excellent course! Great support from Professor and Teaching Assistant! Loved every single thing about this course and its content.
The professor was extremely helpful in the course and always willing to go above and beyond to answer questions.
I thought the course was well organized and I liked the selected readings and text.
Every professor has unique and great qualities in them and the unique and great quality that I found in Prof Anthony Babinec is that he can write pages of explanation for each and every line in the book. He is an awesome professor. He explained…
The lecture notes were clear and concise. The instructor did a great job in covering many different topics in such a short course.
It was great to get a better sense of the Python language. The course gave a great overview of the data analysis and visualization tools.
This was a very interesting course which almost everyone can benefit from taking.
Wonderful course. I'll never pass a queue again without thinking more about it :). Dr. Ragsdale's book is superb it’s really clear and whenever I had a question it was only a matter of reading more closely to find the answer
This course is an eye-opener for me. I always used to wonder what is the best course of action to take in times when outcomes are dynamic.
This course was flat-out excellent. Dr. Ragsdale sets the gold standard for teaching, from his clear and informative text to his prompt and helpful forum responses to his efficient and effective course design. I now have tools that I can put work immediately to benefit…
An excellent course. I'd like to thank Mr. Strasma and the Teaching Assistants for a very solid and productive course.
I would like to thank Dr. Ragsdale for a tremendous work and very insightful course. One of the best I have had at Statistics.com- given the amount of material, knowledge, support, and ability to teach. Thank you very much. It has been a pleasure to…
This is the best course so far at statistics.com in terms of assignments and instruction. Although this is not a Tableau course, Catherine (and evidently Galit) really did a good job of keeping things direct and simple in regards to step by step instructions for…
My organization is slowly embracing predictive analytics outside of our environmental concerns, so this course contributes directly to strengthening my R toolkit!
Both the instructor and the teaching assistant were approachable, helpful, and knowledgeable about the subject matter, and provided constructive feedback about discussion board posts and assignment submissions. My textbook will even be a valuable resource for future projects.
This class was very interesting and practical. I learned how to structure experiments to be able to isolate the effects that the input variables have on the response variable. It was also interesting seeing the application of linear regression analysis in a little different way…
I was quite surprised and impressed with the depth of theory development in this area, plus the software options to allow optimum exploration of the data. Thanks for a most interesting course.
Jen is an amazing instructor. She is open to discussions, knowledgeable and willing to discuss topics. Her you tube videos added substantially to to the course and understanding the material
Professor Babinec did a wonderful job of leading us through this material. It is obvious that he has a passion for this subject. His breadth of knowledge of and experience with cluster analysis added significantly to the course. He gave very helpful answers in the…
The Video/ PPT lectures were excellent. Dr. Golbeck and the TA did a great job to ensure a very good environment to learn and obtain feedback. This course is a great addition to statistics.com
I really enjoyed the format of the course. Wasn't by the book and you could carve your own path out. Really enjoyed working with a real life database and scenarios. Gave me great examples for my job.
This course definitely adds another dimension to my map visualization capabilities other than just relying on QGIS.
This course provided a realistic approach to the analysis of customer data. The steps involved in the preparation of the data prior to analysisunderscored the need for a solid understanding of the business problem to besolved and the programming skills required. The R code provided…
This was an awesome course! I learned so much about mapping. This is a fascinating topic and I wish you had a specialty just on that!
I feel this class gave me a much better understanding of how to design experiments and enhanced my statistical vocabulary. One thing I liked about Mr. Babinec's approach was that his written explanations were precise. Once I read and comprehended them, they really helped break…
The course notes were very instructive and informative, and very easy to follow along. It was helpful to know that the instructor was available to answer any and all questions via the discussion board. I feel confident that I can apply the techniques taught in…
The modeling techniques learned in this course will greatly assist me in understanding the use of models in the banking industry.
I really liked how the instructors coordinated the course. They are very friendly and very knowledgeable.
The TA was really helpful and very responsive to questions. Overall the course was a great experience.
Considering all of the material that needed to be covered, I thought the course was well written and thought provoking.
I can't recommend this class highly enough. Professor Shmueli is an excellent teacher and has written a very clear and practical book. The professor provided good feedback to questions and introduced a wide range of fascinating supplemental information to the course for individuals who want…
This is a good course. The explanations are clear and practical. The problems are good: not too easy nor too difficult, and they are very practical. The problems helped me to apply these skills in my field.
The course helped me learn Tableau and some of the effective Visualization techniques. I really liked the detailed assignments with hints and steps required to perform some of the tasks.
The healthcare industry is extremely data-rich due to electronic medical records which allow for the opportunity to find insight into large data sets. Brushing up on my stats knowledge as well as diving into predictive modeling will allow me to turn data into meaningful insights…
This course (Introduction to Design of Experiments) will enhance my ability to efficiently conduct experiments and discern relevant and non-relevant factors. As a researcher in R&D, design of experiments is a considerable portion of my job.
This course (Introduction to Design of Experiments) taught me that DOE is a much stronger tool than I anticipated. While I've used DOE software in the past, I never understood the calculations behind the design settings. Now that I have a better grasp of what…
This was a great class. I learned a lot and enjoyed the format. The lessons, assignments, feedback, and discussions were all informative. I appreciated the professor's efforts to include references to web sites, journal articles, and books that will be very useful in the future.…