Sep 08, 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.
Jul 22, 2017
Great Primer for what Data Science is about. It also provides the infrastructure of tools needed. This was what I was after, a way to provide other data scientist hardware and infrastructure support.
by Andrew W
•Apr 20, 2017
Very, very, very basic intro. The entire 4 weeks could have (and should have) been condensed into 1 week.
by Lyn S
•Aug 10, 2017
Not bad, but certainly not good. I cannot believe there is a style of teaching where you never get to see the best way to do something. I can slog thru the programming, but I doubt it's the best way to do something, but I never get to see how something should have been done.
by Karan B
•Oct 09, 2017
Very average do not feel I learnt much. Still not sure if it's over or not since i've submitted a peer review assignment and cannot go any further.
by Lang Y
•Oct 25, 2017
Too little content. Can finish the entire course in a few hours. Could be compressed into the first week of a course
by Brendan L
•Mar 28, 2017
Very basic course, I was able to complete the 4 weeks on content in a weekend. I would recommend skipping this module and moving directly to the R Programming course.
by Tarik G
•Apr 28, 2018
I can see that the lecturer's intention was giving an overview by mentioning all different topics, however, it just got me confused. I wish it was more into a solo topic. It would be great if it was given only git/github lectures, so we, the students, can be more comfortable when it comes to uploading files in the following courses. I see in the discussion forums that github is a problem for most of the students in the forums.
by Daniel J R
•Jun 20, 2018
Not very engaging videos. Superficial introduction to the mechanics of some tools without providing much context. Final submission did not work per video explanation. Need a more engaging presenter. Not quite at the level of Prof. Ng's Machine Learning course which I realy enjoyed and learned a lot from.
by Luis C
•Mar 24, 2019
it is a good course but need to show more examples of R. the course should show more empirice examples of the functions of R.
by ping c
•Apr 09, 2019
The video wasn't very effective.
by Illan W
•Jun 05, 2019
Lectures are ridiculously boring, especially without having any video cam component to bring stimulation to the class.
by Shyam D
•Jun 27, 2019
exercises given don't follow the course line
by Rose G
•Jul 11, 2019
Not that interesting, but gives you the basis to install R and git
by Eric J S
•Aug 06, 2019
Very basic course. Poorly motivated, material presented without an effort to demonstrate why. This is not entirely out of place in this intro course, but it permeates the entire program. Difficulty poorly controlled, projects and quizzes much more advanced than lectures.
by Ignacio J S
•May 23, 2017
The course is extremely introductory and even though it may lead you to references you may use to self-teach yourself, it is not worth taking a four weeks course for a one week content. At the end of the week you will have about three new programs installed in your computer and no idea on how to use them for practical situations. Although it's intended as introductory, it surpasses that barrier to mere spectacle.
by Amir N
•Jun 21, 2017
A little bit vague, could use more practice using git and git hub.
by Daniel P
•Sep 09, 2019
In my opinion, the content of this course is too basic and little bit of topic for the data scientist specialization. Of course it is useful to be able to use git, shell etc. but I believe that most of the people already know those and the rest of the students can be redirected to relevant study material. All in all, there was about 90 minutes of relevant study in this course.
by Ashish S
•Jan 24, 2017
ok
by amaru f
•Apr 25, 2018
i think was ok to start up
by Andrew T
•Jan 04, 2018
Basic setup of R and Git.
Prefer Treehouse's integrated workshop structure for tasks like these and/or youtube.
by Claude R
•Mar 05, 2017
A very big difficulty for me, French people who uses to speak english everyday for may work is that :
1) Teachers don't do any effort to speak slower and to articulate
2) As with all other courses I've attended in english, it's impossible to read a transcription, even in english, while reading slides.
Slides are not sufficient by themselves, i.e. without commentary beside. The workaround I've used is to print french translation or english transcription and read it, trying to guess which part suited with which slide ...
For a non-free course, it's not really professional ...
by Brian F
•Jun 15, 2017
This course is very basic and takes nowhere near 1 month. I spent about 3 hours in total on it.
by Tribs S
•Sep 08, 2016
I thought this was very very basic
by xuwei l
•Sep 22, 2016
a bit too simple to be a paid course
by John B
•Nov 12, 2018
Horrible explanation regarding push and pull requests. Would not recommend this course to my friends.
by Самойленко К В
•Jan 08, 2019
A lot of common information, no real examples. may be OK os introdaction, but for scilled student useless. Bunch of very short videos — I'd prefer to see it as a text tutorial