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This course offered by Macquire University on Coursera teaches the basics of excel for data analysis. It discusses data preparations and cleaning using various ways. It helps us form strong fundamentals that are built upon in further courses of the specialization. Click here to read. I.  Introduction     - Functions for combining text values     - Functions to split text data     - Combining text functions     - Cleaning data and changing case     - Removing and replacing text characters II. Working with numbers and dates     - Converting data with value and text     - Understanding dates and basic date functions     - Calculations with dates and using days, network days and workday     - More sophisticated date calculations with EOMonth and EDate III. Defined names for working more effectively with data     - Cell referencing and naming     - Defined names and create from...

This is a very crisp, composed but very informative, designed and depicted course. Several intricacies of the oil and gas industry and economics have been accurately and clearly corresponded. Another great course by Duke University on Coursera! Click here to read the notes. Click here to read my final peer-graded assignment.

In 2012, Jason Sharman presented a paper on "Financial Secrecy, society and vested interest" in Norway. The paper discussed whether the FATF laws to counter the anonymity issue of the shell companies effective? 

Correctly installing GraphViz for python is a painstaking task. The reason is installation and PATH related issues while using pip. The problem intensifies if you are working on your work-related device that has restrictions with respect to installation and file/folder access.

This is one of the most interesting courses I have had on Coursera. The reason, apart from the quality of content and exhaustive content, is actually the interest and excitement with which the prof teaches it. His lectures by far are the most fun to listen to.

This coursera course provides a way to utilize H2O for applying Machine Learning Purposes. Note, this course has more focus on application and that on H2O.

Agriculture: The agricultural sector in India operates at extremely low productivity and the need for reforms in this sector is imperative. Observe that despite a large fraction of the population involved in agriculture, the agricultural value addition to the economy has declined significantly and has stagnated at lower levels. What it needs now is a big push by the government.