By John Mount
Win-Vector LLC has been offering a couple of online video courses on the topics of data science and A/B testing (both using R). These are high quality courses and well worth the money and time needed to work through them closely (with all materials distributed on GitHub).
Our current distributor is Udemy, which has just announced a unilateral change in pricing policy (March 2, 2016). This note is about the current status of these courses.
For a number of reasons (including a decision to write a new better R Shiny user interface) we have already moved the A/B testing course to free status and also made the videos available on YouTube.
For “Introduction to Data Science” we are still digesting the Udemy policy changes. This course remains a good study guide for getting into data science (assuming you have some of the prerequisite familiarity with R) and is a good companion to our book Practical Data Science with R. I’ll emphasize: this course remains high value and all we are discussing here is price and distribution. Udemy’s new policy has a price upper limit of $50.
To try to limit new subscriber confusion we have already lowered the course’s current price to $50 prior to Udemy’s scheduled April 2016 changeover. This will likely cost us revenue, but we want to minimize new subscriber confusion. Please understand that the price listed on Udemy is often nowhere near what arrives to us, and that some of the earlier pricing was to ensure that something is left by the time we get to our portion. Udemy could unilaterally discount the course by as much as 75% (or more in fixed price site wide promotions) and takes at least 50% if they decide they generated the lead- so …read more
Source:: r-bloggers.com