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Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Data Scientist’s Toolbox by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

In this course you will get an introduction to the main tools and ideas in the data scientist's toolbox. The course gives an overview of the data, questions, and tools that data analysts and data scientists work with. There are two components to this course. The first is a conceptual introduction to the ideas behind turning data into actionable knowledge. The second is a practical introduction to the tools that will be used in the program like version control, markdown, git, GitHub, R, and RStudio....
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Foundational tools

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Introductory course

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Top reviews

LR

Sep 7, 2017

It was really insightful, coming from knowing almost nothing about statistics or experimental design, it was easy to understand while not feeling shallow. Just the right amount of information density.

SF

Apr 14, 2020

As a business student from Bangladesh who is aspiring to be a data analyst in near future, I love this course very much. The quizzes and assessments were the places to check how much I exactly learnt.

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By George C

Jul 5, 2017

Good outline but perhaps a bit slow going when a lot of people want to get into coding as quickly as possible- could some of the git instructions come further down the line?

By Peter P

Mar 4, 2019

The automated videos have seriously reduced the value for money for this course. With thousands of students, surely you can spend a bit more time making this presentable.

By Christian B

Jan 15, 2018

Good course for an absolute beginner, but much too light if you have any experience at all with data science or programming. Entire course completed in just a few hours.

By Bre K

Aug 11, 2016

It is a good intro course to get set up with everything you may need for future courses, but it's not necessary if you are already a little familiar with github and R.

By Chaitanya A

Jun 22, 2017

The assignments were too simple to solve. Maybe 1 or 2 graded questions on Git/GitHub could have been added considering the importance of its usage in future courses.

By Chrissie J

Feb 1, 2016

I enjoyed the start up course and look forward to more, but am battling to figure out how to sign-up for the next step all roads seem to force me back to the Toolkit.

By Sam K

Jan 21, 2019

Nice to have a place to get all the tools setup but it's also harder to feel like it's worthwhile when there are no applications for any of the things we installed.

By José A F

Sep 21, 2019

I think final assignment can be improved. For example, the assignment implies that you know how to generate a codebook.md and the video classes doesn't teach that.

By Juan I Z

Dec 6, 2017

For people that are new to Data Science this is a good intro, for people that might have some experience with R, statistics and ML in general this is way to basic.

By Jaydipkumar D P

May 9, 2020

The course is structured well, but I found it too elementary, I didn't learn anything new. So, If you know basics of Data Science and R. Kindly skip this course.

By Christian S

May 6, 2016

I think this course could be integrated into the other ones of the specialization, or, if it is meant to be just a course to get an overview, be free of charge.

By Biplab

Jun 2, 2017

Helps to get the initial environment setup for the Data Science specialization.

Certificate received after completing the course is not effective/useful at all.

By Dherbey C

Apr 24, 2020

No subtitle in French as announced

It would be great to have the power point bigger when reading

The guide for connecting Rstudio and GitHub needs to be updated

By Islam D

Feb 22, 2017

it could have been better if it was more hands-on learning, for instance I don't understand why did we learn CLI till now and how will I link it to my studies

By Madsen Z

May 4, 2016

Might be a good introduction for those completely new to computational tools, but not useful for those with any background in git or R. Can be safely skipped.

By Quentin D

Feb 17, 2016

Good course about getting the basics for the Data Science specialization, but a bit overpriced, as the content is low, and can easily be done in 4-5 hours.

By Julian C

Jan 22, 2016

You don't really learn all that much, but then again I have experience with R and some data stuff already, so perhaps it'd be more useful for someone else.

By Farshad A

Nov 12, 2016

It was a great start to data science but also students should have it in mind that the material presented in the course won't be enough to get through it.

By Stefan H

Mar 7, 2019

I understand the text to voice automation was done due to cost reasons, but listening to the automated voice is VERY exhausting! Otherwise great content.

By Marcelo G

Aug 14, 2016

A very basic overview on Data Science. You learn how to use git, rstudio, and other tools though. The other courses of the specialization are way better.

By Ayush J

Feb 10, 2016

This course should be a free trial for whole specialisation. IT will be more helpful for students to know what is further stored in the specialisation.

By Woszczyk H

Jun 20, 2019

If you already know your way around git and basic programming this is not a very interesting course.

I feel it should be included in the specialization.

By Peggy C

Mar 13, 2017

The word 'toolbox' made me think there was more in the course. 'Introduction' or maybe' Overview ' may have been more accurate. Good course otherwise.

By beth l

Jun 8, 2016

I was hoping to learn more stuff I didn't already know. This class is more of just a vague overview of the other courses. Can be completed in 1 week.

By Jarod T

Nov 25, 2017

Its was pretty good. I'm not really sure how important it is to learn Git so soon but it must be used in the next classes so I am excited to find out.