The online world is exploding with tutorials, how-to manuals and free resources to help you get into the world of Data Science. In the last 5 months I have seen the addition of so many new MOOCs – looks like every university wants to make sure they don’t get left behind. But this is great news for the consumers- most of these programs are pretty darn good!

Newer offerings on Coursera, Udacity and EdX:                                                                                         In addition to JHU’s Data Science Specialization, here is a partial list of more “data related” specializations (which typically consist of 4-10 courses followed by a project) ie “mini degrees ” you can rack up. Coursera offers “Specializations“, Udacity offers “Nanodegrees” and EdX offers “XSeries“:

• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is offering a  Data  Mining Specialization 
• Rice University: Fundamentals in Computing- primarily  gives you a good foundation in Python
• University at Illinois at Urbana Champaign- Cloud Computing
• Georgia Tech Healthcare Informatics and Data Analytics
• Udacity Data Analyst Nano Degree
• edX : Big Data by UCBerkeley (Intro to Apache Spark, Scalable Machine Learning)
• edX: Foundations of Computer Science by MIT

Also a  host of new short “paid” programs have sprung up. theses are typically 6-12 week long bootcamps. They typically range between $10,000-$15,000 and can be competitive to get in.

• HackBright
• Zipfian
• Insight
• The Data Incubator

Here is a link to a bootcamp finder in the city of your choice for a price that works for you! And here is another link great link List of data sciencebootcamps

The Data Science Apprenticeship is free, and another way to go. They have  a really nice comprehensive list of Data Science Resources and a cool cheatsheet.