Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Fast paced, very concentrated course. Only recommended to those with strong programming experience.

Fairly fast paced. if you have just completed the Python for everybody course, you will need to do a lot of your own googling to be able to keep up with this course. Additionally, the assignments need a little work.

Great start to learning data science techniques. Highly recommended that you get a solid understanding of the fundamentals of Python before starting this course.

I've learned the basics of Data Science and also learned some python along the way. Mucho gusto!

the course material is relevant to real-world data science and, while not every topic needed for the assignments is covered in the class, this is also realistic as you commonly have to search documentation to discover the "right" object or method needed for your particular task/dataset. The only reason I hold back from a five-star rating is that the assignments are often stated in vague terms and it's not always clear as to exactly what measure your code should return. For example, one assignment asks students to measure a decline in some value across a date period. this could be a difference, or a ratio, but it wasn't stated in the assignment. only in the forums was it clarified that we should calculate a ratio. finally, the expected time requirements are very underestimated. There's no way that these assignments can be completed within only 2-4 hours unless you already know pandas. Having plenty of python experience and being new to pandas, i still had to search documentation extensively for the right methods to transform data appropriately.

Good introduction course. Did require the student to be resourceful and teach themselves additional pandas techniques in order to complete the homework. The homework was a tangible and applicable problem set.

Excellent experience. Thanks to the course team for the great job. The assignments give me the opportunity to experience the objectives of the course concepts. Well done.

Excellent. You should already have some experience with Python and Machine Learning before you start this course. Learnt quite a lot about Pandas...

Not really an introduction course. The lectures are moving very fast, without really explaining the material. The assignments are much more complicated than the material learned during the lecture. Almost not related at all. I had to learn everything from google. Not for beginners!!! This course will take all your free time and will to live...

Very well-designed introduction course! The videos are concise but don't lose any key points. The assignments are a little bit hard starting from Week 3, while students can learn many application skills in Data Science from them. Looking forward to the following courses! :-)