Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

Excellent one

Completed the course and found it pretty good for the first run. Mostly focused on the Pandas library - you'll be ok if you know a bit of Python, or have experience in another language. Looking forward to subsequent courses.

assignment is really hard, takes me 30 hours at least

Super challenging, but good fun!

This is a very useful course. I recommended this course at people that already know how to programming. Week's homework are more difficult than in the description and needs more time( for my personal experience )

Good COurse

One of the best place to start in Data Science

This course is a decent introduction to using the python pandas data science package, but suffers from some problems. The lectures are very brief and do not prepare you well for the assignments. The assignments are not well described and the autograder is very finicky. As a result, every week I spent several hours on the fora and stackoverflow to figure out what the autograder wants, instead of actually learning pandas. I managed to pass this course with (what I know is) subpar code, but we never get to see proper solutions to the assignments. The course has potential, but as it is now, I will continue this specialisation.

The instructor is warm and seems pretty interested. Content is way too minimal though and it's not enough to prepare the student for the assessments. A lot of searching is required in order to arrive at the solution which more often than not is not the most optimum one. Forums are only supported by fellow students and staff's involvement is next to zero in there. Even threads that deal with clarifying questions were not answered by the staff. I understand that this way enforces community building and helping fellow students, but staff's participation would be highly appreciated.

Well, first thing I am going to say this is not going to be looking good, however correct me if I got anything wrong or being unfair. To be honest, I am very frustrated with this course! It is a very good topic that I am very interested and that's the reason I am enrolled , but the support and the structure of it is very disappointing! Example like this(https://www.coursera.org/learn/python-data-analysis/discussions/weeks/3/threads/0kwIpLJDEeawPhIF4bjuNg), question is not even specified and waste me so much time looking for the requirement and post discussion board and wait hopefully somebody is going to reply! Same for the ScimEn file , which again the file name was not specified in the question! From last secession, assignment two have lots of confusing around what exactly the question is asking about and again lots of time being wasted just to figure out the question! The support is poor as well, not like other course , I would usually get a answer within the same day , but this one is really when you are lucky! Plus the staff rarely response! In short, I hope the staff of the course would see this. This is a good topic but the course are poorly designed with very limited support!I mean if you are truly love the topic , you should pass on the passion to your students and design the course that students not only learn the material in the course but also can know how to ask questions and find out the questions themselves ,but first like learning any skills students needs to ask lots of questions ! I am not going to mention that ,coz even the question in the course is full of error !! Unless, the whole purpose is to make some money , then it make sense , however if it is that case , I am not going to enrol in this course any more.