Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

it's a great course for anyone starting ml and data science.

Not enough resources to solve the assignment.

Great introduction to Pandas and data science using Pandas. Not too difficult but makes one do enough work to use the skills learned for actual data science applications.

Overall a very good course. Unfortunately, the instructions to some of the assignments are often confusing or simply wrong. Be sure to check out the discussion forums for clarification about what you are being asked to do.

This course serves more as a 'test' for those quite experienced with pandas than an actual educational course. The main issue is that it would be extremely difficult to complete this just with the course materials. You really need to spend a lot of time on stack overflow and with the recommended textbook to make any progress unless you are already quite familiar with pandas. It is then fair to ask - what is the point of the course? What value does it actually add? The content difficulty isn't the issue its the fact that there is little support from the course in completing the assignments. The content is essentially a whistle stop tour through pandas followed by some tough quizzes and labs with little feedback for when/if you go wrong. I'm really surprised at how high the other ratings are (look at how many go onto the complete the specialization to see a truer reflection!). Again I don't think it is the difficulty per se, there are other courses on this site which cover quite challenging topics (ML, Deep Learning etc...) that do so a lot better than this course. If you have done one to compare against its unlikely you’d give this 5*s. Instead of doing this course I’d either recommend going directly to the source and read the pandas textbook by the actual author of pandas to get started or do various Kaggle challenges if you want some practical challenges. The only thing this course provides value wise is the certificate.

This is a very challenging course!!!

Good couse, even though i found the course a bit challenging at first. thank you for the opportunity given me to learn.

Very good course and I'm glad that I chose to take it. It was very well developed and I learned a lot. I can't wait to finish the second course and start learning about Machine Learning!

It was an excellent course and a very good experience with coursera.

Autograder in week 4 assigment could be improved