Ratings and Reviews for Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python

Badest learning experience ever. What do you learn in the course itself? - you can use matplotlib - there are different chart types in matplotlib and subplots (and you see the basic code therefore) - a visual should be beautiful etc (a whole week of 4 is spend on this topic!) How bad the course is does the teacher say himself at the beginning. He is saying something like: "For the assignments you will have to search a lot in the internet and ask question how to solve it at different sources". ??? What is then the sense of this course? Of course it is ok to look something up in the internet, but in this case you have to look up 99 % of the necessary information. The sense of a course is to learn it primary INSIDE the course. In the videos he is only scratching the topics in a very fast way. Mostly he is not explaining anything of the code he writes (ok, in week 3 with the course updates he sometimes explain parts of the code). Especially in external readings it is forgotten that not everybody is a native English speaker (Too complex and way to long explanations). So you have somehow to break the coursera rules. For the assignments it is a must to search in the internet for existing solutions and adapt your code accordingly or you ask somewhere how you can solve it and copy this code. You learn primary via trial&error and copy + paste + perhaps understand code from other sources. You also have no script etc of this course beside some pages of Jupiter notebook with less information. Beside the assignments you have no exercises, which are somehow rated. Sometimes the teacher says you can try to change something. But that is then not using existing knowledge out of the course, but searching in the internet... Week 1 about beauty etc. is overkill. Way to much information about a visual level, that you will never reach with this course. The assignments are rated by other learners. So you have to spend additional time for rating the work of others. And then you even have to rate the beauty etc of the visual... I would never pay for such a course. The only advantage is, that you have assignments. If you do not need them you can simply use directly the internet for learning. With or without this course you have to search in the Internet how you can get a certain result with matplotlib.

Excellent

Awesome learning experience.

Nice Course. Truely recommended.

Good balance of theoretical knowledge in Matplotlib and applied charting.

The assignment instructions were rubbish and the staff give answers like riddles, always say there's answer in another lead, well, where's that lead then?

This course is excellent! They don't teach everything but you will learn the basics and be able to explore on your own. Don't let the comments from lazy learners get you. It's one of the best courses I have taken here. The first course is very good too. I'm currently working on the third.

This course is really amazing! I loved the focus on the practical realization of visualizations, because I think that Matplotlib seems a really difficult library at first, and this course gives a good overview of its functions and some suggestions to find out more advanced topics. Before taking this course, I avoided using Matplotlib and I relied much more on Seaborn and other libraries that offer pre-made visualizations, but now I think I'll use it a lot more.

insightful

Great introduction to data visualization.