Stanford University School of Engineering FREE online course "Introduction to Databases"

Just to let you all know that Stanford (in a bold and enlightened experiment) are running free online courses this fall from its School of Engineering. The one that may be most useful to this group is "Introduction to Databases"

I think the understanding of database structures is very very important to the budding data journalist so of course I have signed up. I was thinking of using all our online communities as support for a study group. If anyone else is interested please reply and we can use this thread to get help or start something new depending on what is easiest. Face-to-face meetups would be great. 

I imagine the level of English will be high and I'm not sure what the course work will entail but from the AI course description it looks to be well organised.

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Permalink Reply by Jelle Kamsma on August 24, 2011 at 15:23
Sounds cool, I'm certainly interested in this from a data journalism perspective. Am curious though how time consuming and intensive this course will be.
Permalink Reply by Nicola Hughes on August 24, 2011 at 16:45
Here are the course details. There are all of 7 assignments. It's only one module. Looks like there's only 10 'required' video classes.
Permalink Reply by Liliana Bounegru on September 20, 2011 at 10:55

this looks great! thanks for sharing nicola! when does it start? great idea to create a study group. what does being part of the study group imply?

i'll announce it on the ddj mailing list. there might be more people interested there.

Permalink Reply by Nicola Hughes on September 20, 2011 at 11:23
I'm going to be on the move and I imagine most of us will be scattered across the world. I suggest if you have someone in the office or nearby to have physical study groups. To help each other out online we could start a Facebook group to help each other out with questions and materials. Or P2PU.org could be a possibility. Or EJC might have something up their sleeves. What do you think?

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