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Just found out that @rdpeng @jtleek @bcaffo have enrolled 1,000,000 students in statistics classes on @coursera in last 2 years.
— Simply Statistics (@simplystats) May 30, 2014
Those courses include Roger Peng's Computing for Data Analysis and Jeff Leek's "Data Analysis", and they all use the R language. That means more than 1,000,000 new students have been exposed to R in the last two years! On this basis alone it seems clear that the estimate of two million R users wordwide is an underestimate.
Aillion course enrolments or a million individual users? Their program is delivered as about 13? Different courses, so course enrolments could be an order of magnitude different to user count.
Posted by: Richard | June 05, 2014 at 03:45