Most of us have a wish-list of things that we want to lean, and for some of us, the christmas holiday’s might provide some time off work.  Although this time is usually filled with family events centred around eating and/or drinking too much, there’s always a tiny bit of spare time.

So why not use that time to become awesome at [INSERT YOUR WISH FOR SANTA].

There’s a massive amount of free and low-cost data science courses available online at Coursera and other sites, so here’s a few to get you started (if you cant be bothered googling “data science free online course“):

Free

• Uni of Washington (Coursera) Intro to Data Science
• Harvard intro to Data science (CS109)
• Caltech Learning From Data (Intro to Machine Learning)
• Duke Uni (Coursera) Data Analysis and Statistical Inference
• OpenIntro Textbook and labs
• Google Making Sense of Data

Paid:

• DataCamp Intro to Data Science
• DataQuest Data Science Tracks and Subjects
• John Hopkins (Cousera) Data Science Specialisation
• Class Central Data Science Specialisation