Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Lectures spend a lot of time on watching a person talk to a camera. Projects are pretty good, though auto-grader is a pain to debug. TA & Moderators are excellent and so is community taking course.

Very good course.

The instructor just reads the notes in front of the camera. The lectures are boring and uninspired. I do not recommend this course

Content was excellent but pace was fast and gave a feel of robotic lecture as the code in jupyter was also flowing like anything

Very informative, challenging, and enjoyable course.

Great introductory course to python. It really challenges you to use the knowledge learnt into some practice. Highly recommended.

The assignments are at a perfect introductory, yet not too trivial level. However, I think the way the assignments are graded is very restrictive (i.e. the auto-grader expects very specific outputs with properties which are not essential to the solution required) and a lot of the student's time is wasted on rewriting the solution to accomodate this. The "statistics" part of the course is unnecessary, as the only way in which it is relevant is one line of code in the fourth assignment. People who want to know what running a t-test means should be referred to Wikipedia. Overall I had a great experience and I will do more courses on Coursera.

the learning environment and the scripts are very nice, they're very easy to read and to comprehend, and have a lot of insights. The same can be said about the assignments. They're a steep curve from the materials covered in the lessons, but are related and can be done. The classes, however, are a (very) weak point. Instead of going through the coding, doing slowly some examples and explaining through the codes, the lecturers are, in practice, just citing the classes notebooks. In this sense, there's no need for the class. Moreover, although they indicated this is not a beginner's class into Python, it is not an intermediate or advanced either, so the lectures should be paced more slowly and more detailed on the coding.

the course very interesting very helpful and excellent content.

Excellent