If you are into online learning, you are probably well aware of Massive Online Open Courses, or MOOCs. They've been around for around 5 years and have become very popular. One of the most popular platforms for MOOCs is Coursera. A few years back, they went to adding specializations. You can think of specializations like a mini-masters degree, but at a much lower cost. Possibly the most popular of those specializations has been the
Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization (review). The specialization consists of 10 courses which teach students the fundamentals of data science from how to use GitHub through the basics of machine learning. It is entirely taught in the very popular data science language R.
If you are thinking of getting into data science, it's an excellent set of courses. I'd recommend reading the review above to get a better sense of if this is a good fit for you before jumping in.
