Ratings and Reviews for Applied Text Mining in Python

A very good python course

Excellent course to get started with text mining and NLP with Python. The course goes over the most essential elements involved with dealing with free text. Definitely worth the time I spent on it.

Awesome

I enjoyed the content as well as the pace of the course. Lecturer is great!

It was a pretty good class as an intro to Natural Language Processing.

Horrible assignment and horribl week 3 and 4. Please avoid!

I found the course quite dry and hated the auto grader...

The last week content is little bit hard, but discussion forum helped a lot , overall the course was good to start NLP.

Compared to the first three courses in the specialization (which were all excellent) this course is total shite. The instructor just glosses over concepts at a very high level and clearly put little thought or effort into planning them. The only thing about the course that was remotely positive were the assignments. They were all poorly worded but by completing them I did learn several interesting/useful applications of Gensim and NLTK. Unless your goal is completing the specialization I wouldn't waste my time with the course. It's by far the worst Coursera course I've taken. Shame on the University of Michigan for putting their name on this course. It reflects poorly on them. I recommend they either remove it from the specialization or redo it.

Too much time required to review discussion threads to understand or fix problems with the coding assignments. Lectures provided little substantive assistance in handling the coding problems.