Learner Reviews & Feedback for Graph Analytics for Big Data by University of California San Diego

Within the usual pedagogical standards, it is a very good course

Graphs are quite interesting and in many cases offer a better representation than relational databases.

One can gain lots of insights looking at graphs.

Can be improved further by including rigorous Hands-on exercises

I tried to finalize this exercises for weeks on end. I realized that my VM had two cores and whenever I tried to run the scala codes it got stock. This happened to me at least 10 times until I set my VM to have just one core, and it worked like a charm. I recommend to add a note to make sure the VM is set correctly because I was distracted trying to solve the issue.

I really enjoyed learning graph analytics, great course!

Thanks

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A good topic to continue building upon big data with Graphs, however Week 5 needs some more understandable examples and exercises.

Very good project! Hopefully it will be helpful in my future career!

Very good material, very good Neo4j hands on for new comers. The critique goes to the coverage of GraphX hands on which, at least to me, is not explained clear enough

Very sound course with lots of information to digest. Just enough for "lift-off".

a course focused on enhance basic skills supported with very good tools. If you want to learn, this course will be as good as you work

Maybe the best course of all the specialisation. Good balance between theory and hand-ons. I would give the fifth star with more details and explanations in some hand-ons (mainly the ones from the last lesson). In summary, a good introductory course to graph analysis.

Displaying handson queries graphically would make it more appealing as it was in Neo4j

This module introduced a lot of technical knowledge and theory around Graph Analytics. I understand there is great value in Graph analysis but I got a bit confused with so many examples, programming languages and many technical terms. I think Graph Analysis should be a specialisation on its own.

best course of the series

It started well, but it became a little hard when Java came in. Apart from that, it was great.

Thanks so much

you are great people

The concepts are brilliantly taught but the technical part that was programming was rushed through and not explained step by step. This is probably out of scope for this course but would have been good to get a little more technical training

Great Course and Lot of learning.Best part was the detailed description and explanation of Neo4j

The neo4j parts were good, and nice introduction to graph terminology and concepts. would like to see detailed hands-on for wk#5 (like wk#4 had w/neo4j, which was very well done). like the tools survey and concepts. would like to see recommendations for other course(s), not necessarily in this series or by UC SanDiego, about where to go for deeper math.

Very interesting class, large applications possibilities, unfortunately the hands on machine wont work properly

Seems to give a great high-level overview of graphs; I learned many terms and concepts about graph analysis. I also liked the hands-on-experience with neo4j---its SQL-like syntax makes it quite easy to pick up the basics.

Not bad

well explained