Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Hard course, but extremely helpful. Good work with pvalues at the end. Tricky assignments. Coming from R, I wanted to learn python dataframes, and I definitely feel I got a hold on python now.

very nice couse ...course material is good enough to learn new things

quite practical

The assignments contain questions which are beyond the scope of what is taught. Assignmwnt 3 was very useful specially from Data analysis point of view. Assignment 4 was lil difficult. In my opinion, more lectures on how to code specially for tough problems like those in assignments should be added.

Do more examples & explain more theory on screen, rather than have the camera focus on the lecturer. Highly useful intro tutorial. Thanks team.

1. Very difficult to follow and I had to redo this course multiple times to understand the concepts. 2. Feels like the tutor is just reading off a screen and not explaining a topic from his standpoint. 3. The assignments and course topics are disjointed at times. 4. Examples provided are rather complex and needs to be simplified.

wonderful course!

More challenging than I expected. The assignments aren't a lot of code but they do require some thought and experimentation to get right. Would have liked a bit more lecture material with more examples though.

good balance of theory and practice

This course is poorly done, and I'm sorry but in no way close to an intermediate level. Even knowing a fair amount of python, I struggled with learning from this course. I find it ironic that the teacher specializes in education and mostly sits in a chair and speaks code at you. There are very few visual aids to help. Furthermore, individual topics are not broken down well, showing you how to develop a mastery over the fundamental data objects like a data frame before moving on to the next. Code that is demonstrated is typed out unreasonably fast, and very few examples are done on how to properly access the elements in different ways. The video where the grad student/post doc spits out code 3 lines a minutes made me laugh at how ridiculous it was as if it were an explanation. I ended up very frustrated with this course, and I'm not convinced it's all me or my inability to learn. I suggest learning data science in python from another site, I'm already finding a different class much better and more understandable. Your mileage will obviously vary.