Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Excellent introductory course to Pandas. Four stars because the pace of the videos are too fast and the assignments requires, sometimes, excesive individual learning. Hopefully the info found in the forums is very helpfull.

Very good starter on learning the basics for python data analysis.

Not a bad starter, considering it's a free course, but the lectures were somewhat short. Some things from lectures and tasks were pretty discouraging. For example, on week 4 there is a task that culminates in doing a T-test, but all that the lecturer says about it is "I'm not going to go into detail here, read wikipedia page or take a statistics course to know what the t-test is". Well, it's definitely not a nice thing to say on an introductory course. Same goes to Pearson correlation coefficient - it's in the task, but not explained anywhere on the course. Not all of us have a background in statistics. Tasks are implemented in the form of IPython notebooks (essentially a web page where one can write Python code) and rated by an automated rater, which sometimes gives good clues, but sometimes "result was incorrect" is all you get in response. What I felt was not very convenient is that the rater is asynchronous - you can't run it directly on your current notebook, you have to send your work to be rated using a special button instead. Then after some minutes yo can see the result on a separate page. It works, but slows down the process a bit.

The course was wonderful. Really helped in understanding what Data Science is about.

Very interesting course, with good assignments. It's a nice introduction to Python.

Too many things to learn. The best Python course I've had so far!!

very good course and the lecturer is very good.

The course is quite challenging on weekly assignments. I learned a lot striving to pass.

Great experience , online video's explained the idea of the concept but the learner need to practice off line mode a lot to get through all the concepts listed in the course and assignment. these practices will improve self learning skill and confidence. Thank you.

Excellent course. Well-organized lecture material and extremely relevant intro to Python and Pandas.