Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Should be little more descriptive.

Good

Pretty bad experience, this course let me feel like listening a people read a book. Professor just simply go through the material with relatively high speed, the connection between each part is unorganized, the graduate student even goes through the material with higher speed. Assignment sometimes confusing and autograder add even more barriers on my path. Assistance answer question quickly in discussion form which I'm appreciating, however, can't compensate for the disappointed quality of the course.

Very good course. The Instructor is very good at explaining the concepts. The content in the assignments was very well chosen and help in getting a better understanding of the concepts. The teaching assistant was also good at explaining. All in all a very good introductory course... definitely recommended!

One of the best courses I've taken. Assignments were the best and hardest part. Thanks to all who make this learning possible.

First Assignment was pretty unclear where to find or what to do. Makes no sense to explain it the week after from my point of view.

This course is not suited for beginners, who wanted to learn python.

I have just completed this course. I have learned quite a bit about the pandas library and that has nothing to do with this course. The lectures seemed to be scripted; and extremely condensed. At best, they can be used as a sparse reference manual for some undefined subset of the pandas library. The assignment 4 instructions encourage googling things. Basically "go forth and figure it out on your own" ... why would I need a full course for that piece of advice? The autograder seems to forbid the usage of certain lines of code in Assignment 4. It will reject your answer and give you no feedback whatsoever with respect to the reasons why your answer was rejected. As well, it has inconsistencies that will cost you time. The question on the recession_start() function will be graded as correct if recession_start() outputs a certain value, say x. Yet, in another question recession_start() is expected to output some other value y. Go figure. Not even a warning about it. So, to sum up the salient points: 1. Autograder has holes. 2.Extremely condensed scripted lectures and sparsely sprinkled with practical advice. 3. Useful for letting you know that pandas exist. Disappointing.

over all good content, assignments were good, one thing i find it hard is pacing, it's sometimes too fast, but it is worth taking

The content and assignment topics were good, however the questions were at times misleading or did not specify all conditions required for a correct answer. Perseverance is key.