Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

The homework assignment really require a lot of research, which is daunting. It's not as if the things are that hard to research, but maybe sometimes some hints of where to start looking would be nice. I paid for many more months than one to complete this course, some of which was my unavailability, some was the quantity of time it took to churn through the assignments. OTOH, I had only coded in Netlogo and R, and it took a REALLY long time to understand slicing in python. It's not intuitive and it's not explained well online. How about some slicing questions for practice at the beginning, or separately from the practice? Or a practice module that offers endless slicing practice?

Excellent course! Some experience of using Python is required beforehand and the recommended course at UM on coursera is an excellent start. This course give you a short but effective introduction to to overall structure of Python, how to use the pandas library and associated data types as well as some use of numpy.

Its good

Teaching material is poorly organized, and more of information covered in the assignment are not covered in the teaching material. It truly "self study" course. Just skip the video and dive into google. Even assignment question need lot clarification as well. Auto grading is a nightmare.

This was just amazing. We have learnt ipython and pandas with real life problems.

Very vigorous course. A little hard but will learn quite a bit.

Overall, the course provide good background information on using python numpy and pandas. The assignment were helpful in applying the course knowledge. Unfortunately, some of the assignment instructions were vague which made completing the assignment harder. Had to consult the discussion forums for help on completing several of the assignments.

The class is interesting, but I don't feel like the lectures were good preparation for the assignments. I understand that it takes some reading or study beyond the lectures, but there weren't any other materials provided. The Pandas documentation is big and it's not helpful to just go read through all of the docs blindly.

Could Improve the grader. Seems to have bugs, or it's a bit outdated.

Really hard to follow, it took me almost 2 months to complete the course and i had experience with python and sql server.