Free online courses from Stanford useful for Social Analytics

AI Class by Stanford

Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning form a crucial aspect of Social Analytics and is the kernel in many a 'social media listening' solution. And not just in social media marketing, it is emerging as a key skillset of demand in various fields.

Stanford has a set of free online courses that goes in tandem with the actual class room based courses. The Fall class for introduction to Artificial Intelligence (under which NLP & ML fall) starts October 10.

If you are interested please do attend these courses:

• Introduction to AI (CS221): http://www.ai-class.com/ << This is a prerquisite for the NLP course
• Natural Language Processing (CS224N): http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=63480b48-8819-4efd-8412-263f1a472f5a
• Machine Learning (CS229): http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3a6d-4052-937d-cb017338d7b1