Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Highly recommended course. Need to have prior programming experience.

I think the assigments are a bit difficult for an introduction course

Course is great and very teaching. That being said, some of the excersizes are not clear enough, and since the autograder is auto, it creates problems from time to time

Despite having some basic python and pandas skills, I have learned a lot with course. The assignments are challenging and you need to do a lot of self-study, but I find that it is a good way to learn. The only reasons I am not giving a five-star rating is that some of the questions in the assignments (especially week 4) are very unclear, and can definitely be improved.

challenging! Good class. Sophie's tips posted to the forum helped me a lot, thanks!

Dire, absolutely dire. If you like the following; A. Spending longer endlessly searching the forums for answers than anything else and still not necessarily finding them B. Wasting time getting the right answers only for an autograder to decide an answer that hasn't been touched for an hour and was right, is suddenly wrong (not a great advert for a language you want to use to automate this, is it?) C. Reading countless posts voicing a lot of similar frustrations to this D. Lectures so brief you may as well not bother E. Interpreting "assumes some knowledge of other languages" as "you best be great with these other languages because these lectures won't really help you" F. Wasting yet more time on the forums where answers to one post go totally off track so you're left hunting for a needle in a haystack of replies for something that may or may not be of relevance. If these things are truly your bag then this is the course for you. If not, then do yourself a favour, go elsewhere and find a different course.

A comprehensive and informative course. It was really useful for me.

The knowledge you get in the lectures do not match the level of the assigments. You use way more time googling and trying to solve technical problems than actually learning Python. I wish the lectures included more examples, specially things you can later use in the assigments. And more theory.

Instructions should be clearer in the assignment page. Otherwise over-reliance on discussion forums may tend to steer some candidates away from completing the assignments

The class material was very good and the assignment improved the understanding. The only negative is the graders for some of the assignment do not always provide useful feedback. Thankfully posts from Stephanie Greene (a TA) in the discussion Forum provided helpful automated testers that often provided useful clues on the specific answers the grader was expecting