Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Really useful stuff

Fast-paced Python introduction course for those people who have some programming background and who are interested in Data Science topics. Nice course to begin with!

Great course, great teacher, great structure. Easy to pass tough.

excellent to python beginners!

Homework should be better designed to provide more specification and better hints.

great course!but some assignments lack of clear instruction or mistakes.

this is my first course in Cousera, and i am a novice in Python. I think this course is really impressive. I learned how to use Python to process data quickly. I really recommend this course if you are interested in Python and Data Science. I decide to learn the machine learning course next, I love doc.Christopher!

Great material to get introduced to world of data science using Python!

This course is one the best course on Data science .It has covered almost everything from scratch and has provided enough guidance for the future courses

While there are some great things about this course, I was still somewhat disappointed in the manner of teaching. Too often, what was discussed was basic examples of pandas without really explaining how pandas functions. This lead to frustration and excessive scouring of the online API ,Stackoverflow, or the forums to find out how to program a task. Personally, I found learning SQL easier than the pandas library. There is a great deal of good stuff here though, such as the read and response tasks. These add a great deal of depth and perspective to the class and Data Science in general. Also, the subject of the assignments are mostly interesting and realistic problems. As is, though, I'm not sure I'd recommend this class. On one hand, the assignments do set deadlines and motivate a person to learn pandas and data manipulation. On the other hand, much of the pandas learning occurs using outside resources, which could be done without the class. On the whole, however, I have gained Data Science skills, knowledge and perspective from taking this class, and will continue with this series.