Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

was bit tough

thank you so much, Coursera and the University of Michigan.

This course is much more time-consuming than it claims. As a person usually working with R and who has taken a beginner specialization of Python, I do not think the concepts in this course are difficult. However, the design of assignments makes you spend substantial time on tedious tasks like fixing some minor issues to make answers exactly the same as it is designed. An example is the order of entry is required to be the same as the pre-designed answer. Debugging these unimportant errors (by unimportant, I mean they will not affect outputs in a practical way) makes people really struggling and desperate.

I would prefer to have a generic assignments, this is too much US centric.

Interesting material, poor instruction and not enough practice for things to sink in. Have to basically teach yourself everything through google searches.

Just perfect! It is an EXCELLENT and CHALLENGER course!

It was great experience for an R programmer

It was an unprecedented experience for me in Data Science, just as it was educating and entertaining. The content of the lectures was pretty comprehensive, the lecturer himself mesmerizing, and the fellow students awesome!

The lectures were essentially the instructor reading from the provided Jupyter notebooks at _very_ high speed. You can slow down the video, but then you get a weirdly artificial drone that is hard to listen to. And the lectures jump briskly from topic to topic without providing any context, or advice about writing good programs. The assignments took WAY more time than estimated because (a) there was a lot of self-learning via StackOverflow (b) the auto-grader is very very finicky. (It would have been useful to have a quick demo video showing how to approach the assignments and deal with the auto-grader). That said, the people (TAs?) helping on the forums were very helpful. And I learned quite a bit, but mostly on my own.

Indeed very insightful session and assignments..