Links to Online Training Materials

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Training material ranging from recorded undergraduate and graduate lecture notes (and even a few videos of actual lectures) from American Ivy League Universities to web sites specializing in specific sectors provide a wealth of free training material to aid in understanding and analysing data. Both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University are making available detailed material including lecture notes, exams and sometimes even streaming videos of lectures for many of their courses. Other sites provide information on analytical material for specific sectors. We have attempted to list only reputable sites, but we cannot take any responsibility for the accuracy of the material on the sites.

University Courses (free resources) -- Harvard and MIT both provide free material from many of their classes.
MIT -- The free MIT material is accessible from a single link at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html . This link provides access to free material for courses from 33 of MIT's departments. Many course have detailed lecture notes downloadable as .pdf files and at least one course provides all of the lectures as streaming video.
Harvard -- The material from Harvard is much more difficult to access -- some departments provide material for some of their courses some do not. The main access to all of the Harvard course descriptions is http://www.harvard.edu/academics/academicdepts.html which provides a links to more than 150 departments. However you must then find the link for the course list in each of the department's web sites. Some departments such as Economics ( http://post.economics.harvard.edu/courses/ ), and Statistics ( http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/Courses/Statistics.html ) provide lecture notes for some of their courses -- others provide review material, past exams, references, etc. Some departments provide nothing at all.
London School of Economics (LSE) -- LSE provides lecture notes and other course material on all its undergraduate and graduate economics courses. The material is available at http://econ.lse.ac.uk/courses/ .

Web Sites --

Geography -- The web site About Geography ( http://geography.about.com/mbody.htm ) provides links to other geography sites and information about various geographic concepts. For example, on population you can find information on topics like Age-Sex Pyramids, Demographic Transition and Life Expectancy.

Mathematics -- Drexel University provides The Math Forum@Drexel ( http://mathforum.org/math.topics.html ) which provides links to resource material/explanations of mathematical terms for school, university and advanced mathematics topics.

Updated 15 June 2004