Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

very challenging!

Skills gained in Introduction to Data Science surpassed my expectations. Its project and assignments are really tough, hence, engraving the real knowledge into the brains of students.

great course, very good learning opportunity.

I really liked working on the assignments. I had initially audited the course. later converted to graded version just for the assignments. It was worth it as it greatly helped in improving my understanding of the concepts.

it is really nice course which gives you complete basic of data analysis

Great course! Concepts are clear with assignments designed to test our understanding.

Could have been more interactive.

A great introduction. But assignment grading a little bit tricky.

This class is an absolutely horrible experience for those of us new to programming and data science. For a few of the assignments, you are asked to return a dataset based on the merging of multiple data sets. A better approach would have been to have a checkpoint at each step to ensure the resulting data frame met the requirements. For example, if the data set needed to be ordered in a certain way with the header formatted a certain way, then let's have a separate checkpoint for the order of the values and yet a different checkpoint for the header values. The staff needs to understand that having the correct answer at each step of the process is not a bad way to help the student know if his/her code is correct. After all, the staff can easily modify the dataset read in by the student's code after submission to ensure that the student did not use any hardcoded values. Despite the frustration with the Coursera platform, I can honestly say this is the most fun subject I've had in a long time. But the format selected is absolutely horrific and not conducive to learning and understanding the material.

Very useful training