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Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.

Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex social problems in emerging economies.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

Combine literary research with data science to find answers in unexpected ways. Learn basic coding tools to help save time and draw insights from thousands of digital documents at once.

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Explore the Maoist period of China, from the Communist Party to the death of Mao and the reopening of China.

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.