Ratings and Reviews for Applied Text Mining in Python

It is an interesting topic however there are definitely better courses. I prefer to see more code or more theory but there was lack of both. I enjoyed one practical lecture given by Filip Jankovic, if there were similar one every week, I would say the course is worth taking.

What is taught in the lessons and what is asked in the assignments have nothing to do with it. Assignments are too difficult. You can try if you want to challenge, but if you're just learning, I don't recommend it.

I have taken 4 courses thus far in this specialization. Course 4 is the most horrendous. If you embrace sadistic tendencies, please take this course. If you like to be taken for a ride and waste valuable time, please take this course. If you like to be trolled by the instructor, its so called course syllabus and the champion of them all, the beloved autograder time and time again, please take this course. I will specifically mention Assignment 4. The course syllabus does not even cover fully the material that will be tested in the final assignment. Its a lot of searching stack overflow and reading documentation to implement the answer. That is not all. The functions and the way it is laid out to be accepted as an answer by the autograder is ridiculous. When there are errors, the autograder doesn't even suggest what the error is. It just tells you the answer is incorrect. How does one debug? I mean.. wtf right?! Nonetheless, I will push on and finish this specialization because it is a commitment to finish what I started. All in all, course 4 is unforgivable. This is not the way to teach and not the way for learners to learn. Broken. That's the only word I can think of. The course ...and me in the process.

While there were parts of this course that were interesting, it is in bad need of an update. Most of the technical learing had to do with figuring out badly structured assignments and autograder issues. The criticisms of this course in other reviews are well-founded. This could be remedied by an update of the course by UMich.

good platform

very indetail understanding and approach by the team

Interesting subject, but compared to other Applied Python courses in the same track it felt more hand-wavy. Would have been interested in understanding more about details. Still good though

The materials in this course are good to know and easy to learn as long as you have certain preliminary knowledge. The assignment is challenging and has many mistakes. I think the course provider should revise the assignments carefully and ensure the auto-grader works better.

The effort that went into teaching the content seemed much less than the previous courses in this specialization

Quite infomative but it was a bit too hard on terms in 3rd and 4th weeks for me since english is not my native language