Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Although, i had some basic knowledge of data science before and also i did some programming in python, yet i find this course comprehensive and practical.

Felt like this course was trying to pack a lot of information into only four weeks. I find Python to be a very frustrating language - at least that's how Pandas feels. Compared to R the syntax is dreadful. And I found myself digging through help files and FAQs to find ways to do what should be the simplest things - like accessing values in a data frame. The Pandas help documents are not written for beginners, but written in a mathematically precise manner that makes them inaccessible. (Their preference for 1-letter variable names is unhelpful.) Stack Overflow is much better but it's a crap shoot as to whether somebody has addressed the exact issue that is bothering me at any given point. One final issue: it would be nice to see model solutions. I understand the difficulty in having online solutions available for an online course, but I found myself writing what I considered to be inefficient code fairly often. Would love to see slicker ways to do these tasks.

Very good course

Need clearer examples and explanations. Slides summing up concepts or used functions will be great.

This course is difficult. It stresses a lot of core skills in pandas and python. I wish there was more instructor support for the times that code just doesn't seem to match up with the grader's expectations. There is still a question in the course that I am relatively positive I answered correctly yet did not receive credit. Overall, the format is incredibly well done and the use of Jupyter notebooks makes the tasks very approachable.

Great intro to data science and some of Python libraries for it. The exercises can be quite difficult, especially if you expect to have all the answers given to you during the lessons. In order to solve some of them you have to search the web to find the commands you need, which I think is a good thing because it teaches an approach useful in real scenarios.

Thank you for the very elaborate and very beginner's course. The difficulty quickly ramps up and the questions within an assignment often differs substantially. This can be seen as both a pro and a con.

it is a 5 star course but I am giving it a 4 star primarily because of the pace was very very fast for me...

Great material and presentation! Please work on question clarity, especially in the last project. With as picky as the grader is a little extra specificity would have saved me a few false starts.

Excellent pandas course. The exercises were extremely challenging, but helped me hone my pandas syntax a lot. Definitely worth the time if you're interested in becoming a business intelligence analyst or engineer.