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Coursera: Course Spotlight: Online Teaching Changes Duke Campus Class
Course Spotlight Series: Data Analysis and Statistical Inference, started March 2, led by Dr. Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel of Duke University. This article, based on an interview with the instructor, was written by Charlie Chung of Class Central. Statistics and data analysis is a hot field, and “Data Scientist” has been called the sexiest job of the 21st Century. Dr. Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the department of Statistical Science, and is teaching Data Analysis and Statistical Inference, which has had over 220,000 enrollments. Mine attributes the surge in interest in statistics to the dramatic increase in the availability of data. Originally from Turkey, Mine was surprised to find that most students in the U.S., as well as in most other parts of the world, are not exposed to stats very much in high school, and she developed a passion for improving statistics education. When Mine started to design her online course and thought abo…