Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Wonderful Instructor. Course assignment is strong enough to learn this things. Thanks for this great course.

Excellent one

Completed the course and found it pretty good for the first run. Mostly focused on the Pandas library - you'll be ok if you know a bit of Python, or have experience in another language. Looking forward to subsequent courses.

assignment is really hard, takes me 30 hours at least

Super challenging, but good fun!

This is a very useful course. I recommended this course at people that already know how to programming. Week's homework are more difficult than in the description and needs more time( for my personal experience )

Good COurse

One of the best place to start in Data Science

This course is a decent introduction to using the python pandas data science package, but suffers from some problems. The lectures are very brief and do not prepare you well for the assignments. The assignments are not well described and the autograder is very finicky. As a result, every week I spent several hours on the fora and stackoverflow to figure out what the autograder wants, instead of actually learning pandas. I managed to pass this course with (what I know is) subpar code, but we never get to see proper solutions to the assignments. The course has potential, but as it is now, I will continue this specialisation.

The instructor is warm and seems pretty interested. Content is way too minimal though and it's not enough to prepare the student for the assessments. A lot of searching is required in order to arrive at the solution which more often than not is not the most optimum one. Forums are only supported by fellow students and staff's involvement is next to zero in there. Even threads that deal with clarifying questions were not answered by the staff. I understand that this way enforces community building and helping fellow students, but staff's participation would be highly appreciated.