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About the Course

This is the final course in the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate as well as the Applied Data Science with Python Specialization. This capstone project course will give you the chance to practice the work that data scientists do in real life when working with datasets. In this course you will assume the role of a Data Scientist working for a startup intending to compete with SpaceX, and in the process follow the Data Science methodology involving data collection, data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, model development, model evaluation, and reporting your results to stakeholders. You will be tasked with predicting if the first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will land successfully. With the help of your Data Science findings and models, the competing startup you have been hired by can make more informed bids against SpaceX for a rocket launch. In this course, there will not be much new learning, instead you’ll focus on hands-on work to demonstrate and apply what you have learnt in previous courses. By successfully completing this Capstone you will have added a project to your data science and machine learning portfolio to showcase to employers....

Top reviews

LD

Oct 23, 2019

Its was great experience in completing the project using all skills that we learned in the course, thanks to coursera and IBM for giving me an opportunity to update my selft and also to test my skills

CS

Jun 15, 2023

It's a great course to get a comprehensive background on Data Science (including ML) and lays the foundation for more advanced courses. It touches on all the areas that are required for data science.

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By Rhisa A P

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Mar 7, 2023

Dengan mengikuti kelas ini, saya mengerti tentang hal yang berkaitan dengan data science, dan menyelesaikan kasus yang nyata pada bidang ini. Tools yang digunakan juga bagus dan mudah dipelajari. Terima kasih Coursera <3

By chinmaya s

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Jun 16, 2023

It's a great course to get a comprehensive background on Data Science (including ML) and lays the foundation for more advanced courses. It touches on all the areas that are required for data science.

By Overs M

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Apr 4, 2023

The IBM Data Science Professional Certificate is a very good course. lam glad to have covered the course with the help of Coursera. I will put to use all concepts learnt in this Data Science series.

By Manik K

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Apr 27, 2020

Excellent chance to push in every concept learnt so far. Best thing about the course is the chance to self identify a problem and find the solutions all by ourselves. Great Content. Thanks !

By Yibing S

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Jul 10, 2019

This course is instructive and challenging at the same time. Now I do wish I know a bit more about python and pandas before I jump in this course. But in the end I managed to get through.

By Siddhant P

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Dec 5, 2021

Thank You for such a great end to end project, learnt a lot !! Presentation was damn lengthy though

By Jalvo A

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Feb 21, 2023

Hi, I didn't receive the Badge and certification too. Please, Can You solve it for me?

By Ian C

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Apr 26, 2019

Felt a bit constrained by the requirement to include the Foursquare API.

By Nikolay D

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Dec 27, 2018

Very easy to understand and remember this material

By Hadi N

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Dec 28, 2019

I would have liked to come up with a capstone project which did not encourage me to use location data from Foursquare, and rather use other data to come up with problems and solutions which do not necessarily have to do with location data. But all in all, it was an interesting course and great knowledge was gained

By Abe M

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Oct 28, 2021

Some things need to be updated. Such and such is "Deprecated" errors, typo errors, and less and less thought put on in designing the exercises. I can feel the preparers dropping the ball towards the end of this specialization. Current visualization trends should be included like Tableau.

By Yechen H

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Oct 6, 2019

Overall, the course is very practical, you have the chance to do a project use the technology you have learned so far, and get a feeling of what Data Science work looks like. Recommend for those who interested in Data Science Area.

By Ruiping W

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May 14, 2020

This project is beneficial by providing the chance to explore Foursquare API and generate some realistic results. However the discussion forum is not well used, questions posted there are rarely answered by teach staff.

By Pawel P

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Nov 5, 2018

Some things were outdated and did not work properly for me.

Peer-graded assignments where one has to create a github repository is totally unnecessary.

By Zoilo S

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Oct 21, 2021

The assignments are either correct or incorrect and the scores are depends on your classmates grade to you.

By Alex Y

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Aug 9, 2019

Did not like Foursquare and was obliged to use it to complete the course

By Angelo G

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Aug 30, 2023

Very challenging course, much more challenging than the previous IBM Data Science courses. Although all of the topics that become relevant in the Capstone project have been addressed in previous courses it almost feels as if you have learned nothing before. So you HAVE to go back to the old courses. More often than not you realize that before you had only a superficial understanding of the concepts and the details. On the other hand, it also shows that some of the previous courses just were not good enough to have a lasting impact. This is especially true for the "Data Visualisation" course (and here in particular the Dashboard topic).

So while in the end it was a good learning experience to go through the pain of going back and forth between the project and old courses (or other sources), I would have wished that there is a more seamless flow within the whole IBM Data Science course.

Creating a 50 page final Report is quite a challenge but it certainly helped to tie everything together. In the end, it was worth it and I am actually somewhat proud that I worked my way through it.

With all the critical points I mentioned I don't want to miss the opportunity to thank all instructors for setting up this course. I can imagine that this itself is a Herculean task, with all the technical hurdles that needed to be overcome. While there were a few hiccups that were only addressed in the discussion forum, from a technical perspective, I think this course actually worked quite well.

So thanks again - keep up the good work.

By Martin V

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Oct 21, 2020

As much as I would like to recommend this course, I was really disappointed by the poor quality of the videos in this lecture. They contained a lot of spelling mistakes and were not aligned with what you find in the corresponding notebooks which made it very cumbersome to take notes while watching the lectures. Also the capstone project, while being interesting and challenging, was not properly motivated by the course itself.

I think the extend was good and concept fine but it needs a lot of fine-tuning to be an outstanding course which wants you to continue an do the next one immediately after.

By Brandon S

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Jul 26, 2019

I think I was a tougher critic of my own project than anyone else was going to be; the rubric for peer-grading was almost entirely about presentation with little emphasis on the data analysis itself. The requirement to use Foursquare's API was a limitation on the possible topics for the project, and Foursquare's documentation of endpoints fails to disclose that some fields such as Rating are the result of proprietary, unusual calculations that are unlikely to correlate strongly with any simple data.

By Vimal O

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Nov 9, 2021

On overall IBM data science professional certificate track: Pros: Content is just good enough, instructors are good. Cons: IBM watson and the platform given to practise on is awful and has terrible performance and reliability issues, most often doesnt work and had an impact on my test deliverables. I personally overcame those issues to some extent with kaggle's and google colab jupyter notebook environments.

By BogdanC

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Sep 4, 2020

the idea and all that was great, but despite doing all the previous courses, it was very difficult for me to do the project ... I felt I had many cheese holes and got stuck many times ... note, I had no experience with DS, programming before, but coming from a finance background ... I would say the entire specialisation is not for a true beginner ... but the course package overall is very strong I think

By Hugh B

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Oct 3, 2021

Overall course is good but as you get closer and closer to the final project in the hints and assignments are not explained very well. I had to go through a lot of back and forth on the dicussion forum to solve problems, often over multiple day.

By Huzefa K

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Nov 21, 2021

Good material but instructions are very unclear. The final project instructions were not at all well laid out.

By Theodoros P

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Aug 25, 2021

This was for me the last course needed for the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate. To have a capstone really makes sense. However, having to use the Foursquare API is very restrictive and does not leave much room for different data science problems. The data provided by Foursquare for my location are only suited for certain types of problems and I had a lot of difficulty finding a rationale for a meaningful project using the Foursquare data. It would be very helpful if more data sources are explicitly provided to allow also ML projects with supervised learning. I also think that the 20h estimation for completing the final task is ridiculously optimistic. I needed at least 100h (time in total) to complete the final project, whereas in all the previous tasks of the 9 courses comprising the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate I needed less than the estimated time.

By Elvijs M

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Apr 18, 2020

On one hand there is some encouragement to experiment and come up with an interesting problem and I actually took some time to come up with something non-trivial before starting. But practically, there is no need to -- you can just take the example notebook from one of the prior weeks and change the city. The evaluation doesn't really reward you for doing something original or extra.

Sadly, the certificate of the specialization as a whole is worthless.