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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Python Project for Data Science by IBM

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    About the Course

    This mini-course is intended to for you to demonstrate foundational Python skills for working with data. This course primarily involves
    completing a project in which you will assume the role of a Data Scientist or a Data Analyst and be provided with a real-world data set and a
    real-world inspired scenario to identify patterns and trends. You will perform specific data science and data analytics tasks such as extracting
    data, web scraping, visualizing data and creating a dashboard. This project will showcase your proficiency with Python and using libraries such
    as Pandas and Beautiful Soup within a Jupyter Notebook. Upon completion you will have an impressive project to add to your ...
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    Jun 8, 2023

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    This course is a good checkpoint to evaluate our understanding of the previous courses. The assignment had some challenges, but after revising the materials, it was successfully completed. Thank you.

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    Feb 21, 2023

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    Lab works became more challenging and difficult throughout end of the course. Some tasks I've spent more than week just to find out the mistake. It is quite challenging yet fulfilling at the same time

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    By Sharif A H

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    Jun 8, 2023

    This course is a good checkpoint to evaluate our understanding of the previous courses. The assignment had some challenges, but after revising the materials, it was successfully completed. Thank you.

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    By Jatin P

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    Feb 24, 2021

    It is a very nice experience when you complete something new and interesting topics.

    Python projects are always good this course is all about the analysis of stock data which itself an interesting one.

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    By David M

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    Feb 28, 2022

    Had a few issues with my IBM Cloud account and adding the Jupyter notebook but the help\response was great so was resolved quickly.

    Great material that can defintely be applied to work experiences.

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    By Sri D K

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    Oct 6, 2021

    Best course so far, under the IBM Data Science professional certificate program. It is heavy on the practical side, which is a good thing as it gives the person a more hands-on experience.

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    Mar 7, 2021

    this course has been renewed. now with more content (videos also readings), it is a great course to learn about web scraping. valuable for getting datasets.

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    By Christian H

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    Feb 27, 2021

    Excellent course for data science, but coding experience is necessary.

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    By vignaux

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    Feb 22, 2021

    Perfect to practice python, pandas, etc.

    Great work

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    By Anandhu H

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    Jun 1, 2021

    Great course with a hands on project in the end

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    By Deleted A

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    Feb 17, 2021

    Hard but worthy

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    By John G

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    Mar 16, 2021

    It's not as bad as many people wrote. It was challenging for me as a beginner to python, but it was possible to do if you took notes and reviewed the previous labs. I like that it included work that a financial analyst might have to do. What I didn't like was that in the final project, it wasn't completely clear what to take screen shots of (be sure to take them of ALL the graphs) and that a couple of the tasks were the same. I can't say that I know how to program in Python after this project, but I certainly learned a lot.

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    By Huy P N M

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    May 31, 2021

    Compare to the 4 previous courses in DS professional certificate, I'll say this course will worth your time, although the IBM stuff kinda piss me off. Through this course, you will understand what and how to crawl data from a web page - something you will usually hear like (crawl data from facebook, twitter,...etc) and you can play around with the notebook to get used to it and understand how to crawl data in the most efficiently way and a little bit of visualization

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    By Dale W

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    Mar 3, 2022

    Instructions on web scraping and use of python libraries to extract data was excellent. Usage of IBM Cloud is a nightmare, spent a good few hours trying to sort out and created multiple accounts. I even tried to load my credit card a couple of times to get it working but it wasn't accepted. Luckily it's possible to complete without it. Final assignment has an incorrect url in Question 4 which isn't known until the assignment is marked. I understand that this is an IBM course and IBM would like to use it to demonstrate the capabilities of IBM software, but in this state it does harm to your brand image for potential future clients. Needs some work.

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    By okechi o

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    Dec 21, 2022

    This course need a serious update. Since it is project based, the suppose to be an instructor for one to consult when stocked. The project dataset like packages, libraries that where installed often do not run. may be they are outdated, having been written since 2020. This course is the worse for student. I did not really learnt much, especially the use of BeautifulSoup library for Web Scraping. The concept is not easy to understand, even though I have knowledge of web design.

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    By Laura M P

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    Mar 9, 2021

    Mixed feelings .... appreciated the challenge, but I could never have finished without the sample code provided in the Discussion. Perhaps better to rename this "Web Scraping with Python" and provide a ton more examples of different scraping different websites and practice labs. On the other hand, it did get my feet wet and it gave me the motivation to figure this out further on my own.

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    By Laith K

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    Mar 19, 2021

    Good knowledge to learn, but can there please be an option to challenge peer grading? person who graded mine took off 2 points and when I looked back to see what was wrong, my solution matched the given solution exactly?????

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    By Ian M S

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    Feb 22, 2021

    Nice to have a practical, but the environment is not as good as coding in an IDE which I think would be closer to real work experience. The instructions were sometimes confusing, sometimes didn't explain what to do properly, sometimes included functions that we didn't learn about and sometimes left out important details that were critical to write code that didn't fail. I think the course would improve if they could better simulate an software environment we'd find in a work place and if they polished up the instructions. I wasted so much time just trying to understand the instructions, googling how to do certain things that should've been taught in the course materials and looking through the discussion forums for why my code was failing which could've been avoided with better instructions.

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    By Joshua W

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    Mar 1, 2024

    the lab didn't quite go over what was required on the final. Also it's bs that 2 of the points were from the "optional" IBM Watson. I had signed up before and was unable to use the site again and missed out on two points.

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    By Lisa S

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    Sep 27, 2021

    This course seemed disjointed and the flow could be improved. It assumes prior knowledge or requires additonal work outside of the course to master the fundamentals being taught.

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    By Shannon S

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    Jul 3, 2023

    The project items were not updated and caused a coding nightmare. It took way too long to complete the course due to this error. The codes need to be kept up to date.

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    By Ritwick A

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    Jan 19, 2023

    Do not feel that it prepared me for a real life python person. Several issues such as parsing and others were not clearly defined before introducing

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    By Narell H

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    Dec 30, 2023

    Too many errors with IBM Cloud. Took a while for assignment grades.

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    By Wanda H

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    Apr 20, 2022

    Sorry to say, this was just an awful experience for me. This is a 7 hour course and it took me about 5 months to complete due to so many issues with coding , software malfunctions, and staff that could not get back to me but once a day during the week and their solution usually did not work. This was mentally draining on me and considered more than once to quit and forsake the Data Analytics specialization certificate but see that I am so close to finishing this specialization (actually I should have been finished by now). Also, after reviewing the forum, it was disheartening to see so many other learners with the same problems from many months ago. This lesson should needs a major overhaul or should be removed for the specialization course since it caused many problems than help.

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    By Serhii

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    Jan 7, 2025

    Dear developers of the Python Project for Data Science course. I am taking the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate and your course is one of the twelve. I have already completed 4 courses out of 12: What is Data Science? Tools for Data Science Data Science Methodology Python for Data Science, AI & Development. There were some difficulties, but I passed them. But it is impossible to pass your 5th course “Python Project for Data Science”. It consists of only one module and it is not clear at all how to complete the final task. Therefore, it is impossible to complete this course.

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    By Erika L

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    Aug 11, 2022

    Honestly these courses are so buggy, the directions are either oversimplified or too complicated, I don't feel like I learned a thing. The whole process was incredibly frustrating. The moderators are helpful and answer your questions quickly and fix your problems, but having so many issues is really disruptive to the learning process and I feel like I'm going to have to do a lot more independent studying to actually learn the skills this course was supposed to teach me. I don't recommend taking it.

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    By Divya S

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    Jun 7, 2022

    This could have been a really good course and the topic is something that is intrinsic to data science. However, it was handled very poorly. There were no clear instructions to complete labs. The videos were not exhaustive in explaining concepts. The final assignment instructions were barely there. The majority of learning for this course is through multiple google searches and running through the discussion forums. Worst course yet. I hope this course is re-envisioned by a core competent team.

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