Ratings and Reviews for Introduction to Data Science in Python

learn lot of stuff related to python and different libraries.

Great course! You will learn using the Numpy and Pandas libraries, together with the Python Regular Expressions (Regex). The third and fourth assignments are challenging and put you in front of (relatively) complex real databases (which is great) and go also beyond the material discussed in the course, but this pushes you to search on Stack Overflow and read the libraries' documentation, which is a great way to learn. I would definitely recommend the course!

Was not a fan of this course at all. The first assignment is completely on regex which I understand that it is an important topic, but that's a fairly advanced topic in data science so to have as the first assignment of the first course in this specialization seems a little ridiculous. Not a single question on the assignment was on numpy which we spent the vast majority of the week learning. I did not get much out of the other assignments either. Dr. Brooks is really not the best teacher. Very knowledgeable, but not good at relaying that knowledge to others in a clear manner. If I could go back a month I wouldn't have taken this course.

Thank you very much!Great course!

More challenging material than the introductory courses. Requires reading in the text book, reviewing the exercises in parallel in Jupyter Labs, and reviewing the lectures. The assignments occasionally had ambiguity which cost some time in solution. In general moved my understanding of Pandas greatly forward. Will start using Pandas in work as opposed to Excel.

A complete course to learn foundations on Data Science. Very good material and some challenging assignments.

great introduction about using pandas

This was the best. Thanks for creating this course :3

Task formulations and goals explanation in assignments description are extremely bad, I've almost turned grey trying to understand what is the main purpose of exercise. May be you should be able to read minds of Christopher Brooks or to be some sort of psychic to complete these assignments. :) The only way to deal with this is to googling and searching for the answer in discussions forums, StackOverflow and Github. But, unfortunately, I haven't find anything better on coursera for my current programming level. P.S. If you are beginner in python programming (as me), I highly recommend you to try DataQuest, it is much more understandable.

Assignments are the soul of this course. They challenge you, tests you, make you read up more and get more information. I spent 5 times more time in researching and solving assignments and quiz then on the video lectures.