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Datacamp Alternatives

Why This Exsists

Datacamp is at it again. (well, I say again, but this is really a continuation of what has been going on.)

Datacamp just announced that they are sueing Rstudio because Rstudio stood with the a former employee who was sexually harassed, and Datacamp see’s this as defimation of the company from a competitor. You can read Datacamps statement here

Datacamp is claiming to have debunked an article writen by a reporter at buzzfeed (now at the NYT covering tech and disinformation) by conducting an independant 3rd party review which found

When this first surfaced, Datacamp made a post about the event using a no-index tag, preventing it from appearing in Google Search results.

Alternative Resources

In light of the above, I’m compiling a list of resources that can be used instead of Datacamp for learning about data science. These are in no particular order. If possible, I’ll try to include a small snippit about what the resource offers.

General Data Science Replacements

R

Data Viz

Python

SQL

Excel

Web Development/Javascript