Jan 12, 2019
Effective way to refresh and add the Data Science math skills! Thanks a lot! At the time of the study some of the quizzes content were not rendering correctly on mobile devices (both iPad and Android)
Jul 23, 2017
This is neat little course to revise math fundamentals. I generally find learning probability a little tricky. This course helped me a lot in better understanding Bayes Theorem. Thank you professors.
by Robyn J
•Feb 08, 2017
This course is very strong with respect to presenting the concepts you need to know for data science. It is extremely WEAK in terms explaining those concepts. If you are like me and did this kind of math back in the 70's and 80's but have not used it since, be prepared to seek sources outside Coursera in order to understand the material and pass the quizzes. The instructors leave out explanations and skip important points leaving you confused about the concept.
Example: In the Permutations and Combinations sections, "results" of calculations are thrown at you with no explanation of how the instructor got the answer. 10 minutes later, totally as an aside, you get the explanation. The course is not taught in such a way that A leads to B, B leads to C, and C leads.....; instead the instructor will tell you about C, might explain A, and forget about mentioning B until the graded quiz. That is why you will need to fill in the gaps using websites like betterexplained.com or kahnacademy.com.
The student is better served by looking at the syllabus and then going to either of those sites - where the explanations are worth your time.
In addition to failing to present steps in a logical order, the course often teaches at an extremely basic level but tests at a much, much higher level. Again, to get to the higher level of understanding needed to pass ANY of the required, graded quizzes, the student will need to heavily utilize outside sources. The explanations on the practice quizzes also fail in many cases to thoroughly explain why an answer is correct.
Then there are the issues with Coursera itself, the course navigation using Chrome is quite bad. If I did not constantly monitor what part of a course I should be in versus what part of the course automatically loaded next, I often found myself taking a quiz for which no lectures had been presented. The TA's response to my complaint was flippant and WRONG. She then closed my question and I could not respond or ask for more details.
If I had it to do over again I would invest my time and money somewhere else. In my opinion, Coursera should rescind the instructors' rights to charge for this course until the instructors improve and meet higher teaching standards.
by Roberto S
•Jul 24, 2017
For newbies, the set theory, real numbers, basic statistics and so on are quite well explained. The intro to probability, however, is shallow and quite confusing. It lacks some real-life examples to offer a better grasp of the theory. Coins and dices examples are a good start, but made up examples without a real base are not clarifying at all.
by Marcel S
•Apr 30, 2017
Week one starts with interesting material that relates probability to data science. Unfortunately as the course progress the course material and videos become less and less helpful. Ultimately the student has to visit other web sites and youtube to actual learn the expected material. The course notes are next to useless and the video are equally unhelpful. I am sure the teachers know their stuff but they have no idea on teaching it clearly based on the material presented in this course. Avoid this course, and head over to KhanAcedemy and complete their probability and statistics program and you will actually learn all the material in this course with a ton of examples and top class videos.
by Viviana R
•Feb 19, 2019
Great course to learn basic math. It focuses on the essential and it is very clear.
by Mikhail G
•Mar 28, 2018
Please include integration, algorithm analysis (big O, theta, omega), recursion and induction. Your course is helpful, thank you. If you add those things I've mentioned it would be absolute gold.
by Danny N
•Nov 18, 2019
I thought this course was a nice refresher on basic mathematical concepts and it introduced me to set theory and probability very well! I think I am better prepared for data science afterward!
by Danuel R
•Apr 01, 2017
Difficult content not explained well by the presenters.
by Mukund B G
•Dec 04, 2018
Very good informative, surely has helped me understand probability more intutively.
by Ramneek k
•Dec 23, 2018
Great Course, really refresh my math skills
by Sai K G
•Dec 24, 2018
Good
by Gustavo L R
•Jan 28, 2019
Good!
by Kasidis S
•Jan 04, 2019
Learned a lot from this course, thanks :)
by Yojana S
•Jan 31, 2019
I have got various knowledge from it. We have learn various lesson s of math. I am thankful for the professor who teaches us this things
by Gitashah
•Jan 31, 2019
First of all thanks to the data science math skill because i learned many new things,ideas,knowledge and skills from this course and more thankful to professors because of them i am able to give all the answers and it was too much interesting to do .
Thanks to all the teams of coursera as well as to the data science math skill......
by Merishka a
•Jan 31, 2019
I like this course. it is very intersting. Thanks for course.
by Ritima B
•Feb 01, 2019
Really a great place to get a free education. I already complete a course and am looking forward to complete my second course.
by srijanapuri
•Jan 31, 2019
I learned many new things, ideas, knowledge,and skills from this course.I am very much thankful to both professors for teaching about all of those interesting lessons,providing many more things. now, I am able to give all of the answers frequently which I learned from this beneficial course.
by Preeti A
•Jan 31, 2019
Learning this course I have gain many new and interesting skills. I am very much glad to get the knowledge from two professors and they gives me more knowledge on those interesting courses. I was able to do the answers of the given courses.And I THANKS them to give me such opportunity to do these courses.
by shruti b
•Feb 01, 2019
I have learn many things from this course such as algebra, equations,and other math problems. It has given me many information .
by Saida S A
•Feb 02, 2019
Great course
by Qicheng S
•Feb 03, 2019
Nice Course, Looking for specialization bundle on this one
by Mai V X
•Feb 06, 2019
It's very good to learn this course, so amazing.
by LI M
•Nov 09, 2018
good class
by Valerii M
•Nov 11, 2018
Great course!
by Joy G
•Nov 13, 2018
This course from course era has given me new opportunity to explore and has given me confidence in data science ,