Ratings and Reviews for Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python

Great course on data represantation

Fine for learning matplotlib, little additional benefit

Ideally, would be 2 1/2 stars if that was possible. Again, like Course 1 in the series, the time required is VERY underestimated, especially since the course is little more than a series of exercises that require extensive external research to learn how to complete. The instructor seems more interested in this subject matter than the first course, but the discussions are such high-level overview, much pouring through Stack Overflow is needed just to learn the topics. The best pieces, as in Course 1, are the extra reading that one might never otherwise be pointed towards, but other than those, a $10 web course that simply gave exercises and pointed to Google searches and Stack Overflow to learn the detailed material would accomplish 80+% of what this course does. And many find the assignments confusing which adds time or results in the wrong work product (some of that I believe is especially true for non-native language speakers) - lots of comments to that effect in the forums. Students grade each others' work product, and it is clear from doing so there are many interpretations of the exercises. And, some students doing the evaluation of others are clearly not qualified to do so - if one does not really understand basic Python or statistics, they should not be indicating the calculations are wrong... And with three reviews required - it seems the grader uses the lowest grade of the three. If 2 reviewers give full marks, and another gives a 0, the 0 is what is recorded. This is especially annoying in tandem with the lack of value in the instruction - just getting some assignments from off the web and forcing yourself to do them would be far more satisfying. I don't see continuing with the Michigan courses beyond this point - there are better options.

I really enjoyed this class. Rather than teaching only the computational tools, the instructor took the time to describe the fundamentals of data representation and to explain how to best communicate data in figures.

Very interesting and challenging assignments

Good course.

Nice course content! Unfortunately the assignments require additional self-study that can become quite time consuming. Therefore one star less.

Somewhat easier compared to other courses in the pack.

This is a fantastic course. The lecturer is amazing and I learned tons of information about publication quality charts and data cleaning. It takes plenty of time though. I recommend this course to anyone serious in learning data science. At least to those starting in this area.

Excelente level!!