First, I must advertise my forum - www.ba-china.org - an online communication about big data, business analytics and data science. If you are interested in BA, please join in BA-China! Click the URL, then register! Share your resource and opinion about analytics in the Big Data area! I will also share my Social Media Analytics journey in BA-China.
Second, let me talk about why I select the course - Social Media Analytics, even though I don't have any programming background. Social Media opened the area of Web 2.0. Plenty of data is generated through social media every second. Why people are addicted in social media, how to analyze their behavior, how to predict the effect of social media marketing, and how to take use of social media analytics to promote our business are the questions that I'm interested in. In addition, I can hold the opportunity to learn Python, a popular programming language used in big data. No Zuo No Die why you try. No Try No High Give Me Five! (a very hot sentence on the internet in China).
Finally, share with you some useful study resource:
1. Coursera: Social Network Analysis by University of Michigan
2. Udacity: Programming foundations with Python
3. Python教程中文版
