Coursera courses on data analysis

For those of you who want to learn R: videos from Roger Peng’s course “Computing for Data Analysis” are linked to at Revolution Analytics.

Roger Peng is a professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins and one of the bloggers at Simply Statistics. The course has a trailer video, below:

The course itself is a short one, 4 weeks at 3-5 hours per week, and the next session of it starts on January 2, 2013.

Another course from a Hopkins professor and Simply Statistics blogger being offered on Coursera, starting January 22, is Jeff Leek’s Data Analysis:

Peng and Leek have written a blog psot on why they’re teaching MOOCs.