Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

really helped in improving skills in our carrier

faced some difficulties in assignment submission but resolved later

I learned a lot

Decided to rate this course after I've gone through all 5 courses in the Speclisation. I originally completed this course in January 2020. So from someone who has completed this Specialisation, I'd say this 5 courses are not worth it. Here's how I would rank the courses from best to worst: 1. Social Network Analysis: 4.5 stars 2. Applied Machine Learning: 3.5-4 stars 3. Applied Text Mining: 3.5 stars 4. Intro to Data Science: 2 5. Plotting:1 Note that that worst courses are those handled by Professor Brooks himself. His video lectures tend to very superficial (or once in a while, unnecessarily detailed like going into the backend of matplotlib). The assignments on the other hand, are somewhat challenging and go way beyond the video lectures. And that's why you see many comments asking what's the point of purchasing this course when you spend 95% of the time googling? Which is made worse by the outdated autograder which uses and old panda version, and makes googling harder since you had to revert to outdated code. My advice: Unless you really want the Specialisation cert, I think you should look elsewhere to learn pandas.

Great course, everything was nicely explained and the assignments actually make you apply what you learn instead of having you fill an 'ABC' test.

This Course make me a novice developer!

Excelente curso, aprendí muchas cosas sobre la librería pandas y numpy y aprendí cosas nuevas de python

Very nice introductory course, I think it would have been good to include a brief introduction to visualization. But the statistics concepts and theory were very well explained plus the assignments were designed to apply all of the learned concepts, I would have liked to see more practical exercises done by the instructor as I didn't have a programming background.

Thank you all. I think Coursera's platform is a little confusing for this course

You will spend more time fighting the autograder than actually learning. You will learn more from youtube videos than this course. The only reason to do this course is for the certificate, even then, watch a youtube video or two before starting this course so that you can grasp the material. Also, before doing an assessment, watch the next weeks videos as the videos are a week lagged to the assignments.