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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to Data Science in Python by University of Michigan

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    About the Course

    This course will introduce the learner to the basics of the python programming environment, including fundamental python programming
    techniques such as lambdas, reading and manipulating csv files, and the numpy library. The course will introduce data manipulation and
    cleaning techniques using the popular python pandas data science library and introduce the abstraction of the Series and DataFrame as the
    central data structures for data analysis, along with tutorials on how to use functions such as groupby, merge, and pivot tables effectively. By
    the end of this course, students will be able to take tabular data, clean it, manipulate it, and run basic inferential statistical an...
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    Top reviews

    PK

    May 10, 2020

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    The course had helped in understanding the concepts of NumPy and pandas. The assignments were so helpful to apply these concepts which provide an in-depth understanding of the Numpy as well as pandans

    HC

    May 4, 2018

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    It's very useful specially for new learner because it only dives into the part of python that data science need. I strongly recommend to anyone even if you don't have experience in programming before.

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    By Elze L

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    Mar 21, 2021

    Week 4 assignment was the reason I didn't finish this course, even though I am actually a data scientist already. The task was too much focused on manual curation and googling of irrelevant information (sports teams). I'm not from the US and found this task ridiculously boring, irrelevant and frustrating.

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    By jun L

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    Jul 9, 2018

    Teaching material is poorly organized, and more of information covered in the assignment are not covered in the teaching material. It truly "self study" course. Just skip the video and dive into google. Even assignment question need lot clarification as well. Auto grading is a nightmare.

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    By Pritika R

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    Jul 23, 2020

    waste . your videos were useless cause you havent thought much . all the assignmnets were out of portions then what is the point of me seeing your videos if your assignments are all out of portions . worst course ever the only good thing is that the assignments were challenging

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    By Pushkar K

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    Apr 22, 2022

    Very poorly done course, with no real structure and lack of real world applications. Just a bunch of material picked up from the book with a dry format resulting in very slow learning outcomes. I believe the course from UPenn is superior to this one. Do not recommend!

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    By Farid M

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    Oct 2, 2019

    The instructor sucks. He writes codes in the video and does nor explain the logic behind it. i can find the code everywhere, what I need it to learn why we do it? Most of the time you find find yourself staring at the instructor's face, not codes and explanations

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    By Paul

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    Dec 9, 2016

    Terrible course. Assignments are extremely buggy and often touches on things not even explained in the lectures. Mentors are not active. Explanations are sketchy and not well paced. Do this course only for the examples in the Jupyter notebook.

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    By Humberto J

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    Sep 14, 2020

    This course was very dissapointing, the instructor only explains what is going on in the code and does not provide any explanation on how to structure lines of code. Professor Charles Severance is more engaging in teaching coding languages.

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    By Alexander B

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    Oct 10, 2017

    Lectures are brief, shallow and too compressed

    Grader is buggy

    Generally course is bad. I spent more time in Stackoverflow than here to find answers

    I can read books and surf pandas docs by my own, what is the sence.

    Just a waste of time

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    By Ryan C

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    Nov 28, 2022

    The first two weeks were pretty good. However, assignment #3 had poorly worded/vague questions - Sadly, attempting to finish week 3 became an exercise in futility. Going forward, I will avoid U of M courses on this platform.

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    By Matias S R N

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    Apr 10, 2020

    As atividades do curso são bem confusas, devem melhorar muito ainda. Não adianta dificultar para ter que passar várias horas no fórum para entender a pergunta e ver dicas. Enquanto não consertarem os exercícios não recomendo.

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    By Nicolas J

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    Feb 20, 2021

    The criteria to pass assignments are often poorly explained, which results in hours of wasted time looking for clues in discussion forums. It would be beneficial for assignment grading criteria to be much more explicit.

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    By partha s

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    Sep 7, 2020

    I am really disappointed with the course structure and the explanation. The assignments were really difficult to understand and there were a lot of issues with the grader even though the method and solution was correct.

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    By Rohit D

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    Apr 16, 2020

    Worst Course ever.The assignments are way tougher than taught in the lecture.

    Complete and utter waste of money.

    Please improve the contents of the course and provide detailed list of various functions.

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    By Yuanning Z

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    Dec 10, 2017

    this course is horrible. The lecturer go through things so fast without emphasis, let alone highlighting the rationale behind of each things. Totally confused, worst class I have ever took in Coursera

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    By John K

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    May 4, 2018

    Awful. The examples are boring, pace is slow, and instruction is little more than "go to StackExchange." Most course 'discussion' involves the clunky, bug-riddled auto-grader. Don't waste your time.

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    By Miguel A

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    Oct 11, 2023

    I have learnt more about Python and Pandas using books that with this course; and I say this being an R user for more than 10 years, so I am not new to data science... Didn´t bother finishing it.

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    By Ghizlane A

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    Sep 20, 2017

    Hard to follow this professor. He reads off the script and reads really fast. I have a background in Porgramming but this is the most confusing programming class I have ever attended, sorry :(.

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    By Thomas A

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    May 17, 2017

    The examples are a bit too extreme head on, I have experience with python but the level at which this is provided is quite hard for anyone to jump in and it should not be advertised as such

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    By Filip A

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    Feb 25, 2021

    This is the worse course that I have taken on Coursera. Speed and assignments are ridiculous and there is no way that you can complete them with the knowledge gained from lectures!!

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    By Brendan M

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    Jul 10, 2018

    My opinion of this course has already been stated here: https://medium.com/@masseybr/university-of-michigan-introduction-to-data-science-in-python-course-review-50eb37f5ff0d

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    By Eric A

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    May 28, 2021

    Vague. They will introduce an idea in 30 seconds and assume complete comprehension then quiz you on it with no real practice. Not much learn by doing happening here.

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    By Daniel S

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    Oct 10, 2023

    Not intermediate. Not basic. Very advanced. Very little point in showing these videos if they are not going to teach anything, just run through these examples.

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    By Will W

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    Apr 24, 2021

    This course has many errors and bugs in its materials. I don't know why the administrators refuse to fix it but it comes off as shoddy and poorly managed.

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    By Salih F C

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    Sep 25, 2017

    Course doesn't give you any tools to use, it only expects you to solve problems with the tools you find from internet. Buy a book, at least it is better.

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    By Ramadan K M M

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    Dec 26, 2016

    instructor is too fast, video lectures are not enough and assignment questions are not clear which wastes much time just to understand the question

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