Harvard University is providing seven free online courses in data science, each running for eight to nine weeks and requiring one to two hours of study per week.

This online data science specialization is designed for anyone interested in learning how to program in R. You will learn the basics of R, including imputing data, performing basic analysis, graphing, ...

Python may be the second choice to R, but its popularity and ease of use positions it to dominate data science. “When [Netflix’s data science team] started, there was one single kind of data scientist ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...