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
- ” little factual dispute”
- “not […] appropriate or advisable”
- “actions were not consistent with key values”
- “made a number of mistakes “
- “did not take sufficient account “
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
- Adventures in R
- Provides Course materials created by Dr. Kelly Bodwin
- Learning Statistics with R
- Book / Materials, by Danielle Navarro,
- Associated R package
- Data Science with R
- Also by Danielle Navarro
- Danielle Navarro’s Youtube
- Many videos demonstrating how to work with data in R
- Videos on how to do generative art withR
- Complex Human Data Summer School
- The ggplot2 book
- A free digital version of the ggplot2 book by Hadley Wickham
- Practice with diverse datasets on #TidyTuesday
- Put your data skills to use and create content you can share to demonstrate understanding
- Learn from others working on the same dataset
- The Book R for Data Science
- It’s free real estate
- R for Data Science Community
- A community of people learning and teaching R.
- Includes a well run Slack
- Tidymodels with Julia Silge
- Honestly one of the best parts of my week is seeing Julia work with Tidymodels
- posts, code, and videos
- Forecasting: Principles and Practice
- The Big Book of R
- A big book with many more resources than I can reasonably list here
- Teacup giraffes and stats
- A gentle introduction to statistics and R with live code examples.
Data Viz
Python
- Calm Code
- Short videos and code snippets
- No experience points, paid-for certificates just calm tutorails
SQL
- Kaggle’s Intro to SQL
- Very intro level
- No software needed
- Uses Python to access Big Query
- SQL Bolt
- Fairly Intro Level
- Online/Interactve
- W3 SQL tutorial
- Very simple, fill in the blank style learning.
- Good for reviewing
- SQL-EX