Ratings and Reviews for Applied Text Mining in Python

The course leaves you in the dark. Firstly, the assignments questions are written very poorly, making students waste their lot of time in understanding and finding what actually they need do it for auto grader to asses their solution. Secondly a lot of concepts are missing which are essential for the course and last but not the least there is no reasoning why are you doing some things in a particular way which is more relevant for online course which rather can be obtained just by reading some texts.

After 4 courses in the stack, this one is the worst. My tip would be to look on youtube for a tutorial of the topic at hand and skip the UoM lecture.

Great course highly recommended

Great course but forum should be updated. Some posts are not accessible anymore which can be really frustrating

Natural language processing is a big topic but the course only covers a small area of it. Also, the practices and assignments are little easy and light. And it's lack of instructions of how to use some software tools and libraries. In my opinion, the knowledge learned from this course is not enough to solve the real-world problems. Course 1, 2 and 3 of this specialization are much better than this one.

While containing marginally less bugs and errors than previous courses in the specialization (though they are still present and bafflingly U of M shows no interest in ever fixing them), this course spends too much time going over topics already covered in previous courses, then shifts to a very simplistic and rudimentary overview of the material at hand. The last week especially is so rushed that I don't feel I have a solid grasp on what was supposed to be taught, and the assignment is just paint-by-numbers reading of documentation and plugging in guesses.

the field which is intruduced is quite exciting for me. before that course i knew regex, but after this course i gained confidence with it and learned it very detailly that i realised i knew regex superficially. With the assignments i think i got the necessary skillf for regex. However, it is hard to say the same thing for the nltk library. comparing the other courses of the series i expected a much more explanation. i had some difficulty as solving the problems, but with the support of discussion forum i got very enlightening hints. Overall i'm happy to get this course. thanks everybody!

Unlike the other courses in this series there were no practice applications which lessened the experience.

lectures didnt cover material in assignments specifically week 4. lead to a lot of supplementary research and headache.

the auto-grader sucks