Posts Tagged ‘bigdata’

Coursera vs edX

I wanted to use MOOC for getting some education about Big Data, data science and machine learning. Some time ago I did an attempt at Coursera to follow Andrew Ng’s course on machine learning, but found it difficult to keep up. Afterwards I explored Udacity, and was only moderately enthusiastic. As these MOOC courses are…Continue Reading…

Installing Parallels Tools in CentOS 6 on El Capitan

I am using Parallels Desktop 11 for MacĀ OS X to run other operating systems on my Macbook Pro. This works fine for Windows 8 – I have no need for Windows 10 yet. This also works fine for Ubuntu. For a Big Data specialization on Coursera organized by the San Diego Supercomputer Center I need…Continue Reading…