Oct 17, 2017
Good Explanations of Concepts and Nice Tests. I got a trilling experience in completing the peer Assignments with keen observation and Analyzing of Concepts learned.Thanq for your course very much.
Mar 28, 2017
Nice course to describe the traditional data modeling (RDBMS) as well as various semi-structured and un-structured data modeling and management of the systems (Batch and Streaming data processing)
By Swadish V
•Dec 05, 2019
I am totally new to big data. This course give me an immense knowledge about modelling.
By Alexander H
•Dec 27, 2018
could be a bit more specific, especially for students with a classical DBMS background
By Saulet Y
•Jan 11, 2019
Very boring and not interesting course. The slides are just tedious. Additionally, there are some mistakes in week 4 if I'm not mistaken with evaluating weights and coSim(). Many users mentioned in the forums, but nothing has done.
By Anurag S
•Sep 13, 2018
As far as the content is concerned, this is a very good course. Concepts are explained well.
What I disliked about the course is the final peer-reviewed problem.
1. The instructions were unclear about what was needed to be done.
2. When submitting, the HTML of the problem got badly garbled.
3. When reviewing peer submissions, for the first part nobody could read their submission because of the garbled format.
4. Most people did not get the second and third questions right but instead of there being a way to evaluate how much they understood, it was a yes/no option to grade them (which amount to either them passing or failing).
I think this is a promising specialization but the instructors need to pay heed to the bevy of complaints in the various forums.
By Norman L
•Aug 12, 2018
The material does not delve into enough depth. The syllabus often moves into the next topic just as it begins to break the surface of the current topic. I want more details about the architecture and implementation of each NoSQL database
By Sai L K
•Oct 17, 2018
The course could have mentioned technologies which are more into the market currently and also it would have been better if there were some hands-on exercises on them as well.
By rkouatly
•Aug 06, 2018
The course requires more practical part
By Waldo U
•Dec 31, 2017
The last assignment is really vague and poorly written.
By Srikanth C
•Nov 26, 2017
Fairly superficial treatment of a wide variety of topics. There was only a loose connection between some of the hands-on exercises and the lectures. The final assignment questions were not clear and the marking scheme was vague, which led to quite a bit of confusion while answering and grading it.
By Dan K
•May 08, 2017
This is ok. There is some light theory and application of it, but even less hands-on. There is also too much of an emphasis on different big data systems and each brands specific uses. This is good information, but I think it could have been presented on a two page comparison chart. The next course is supposed to be more more hands-on, so I am looking forward to that
By Jorge F d l V G
•Oct 23, 2016
The level of the exercises and quizzes don't reflect the content of the course.
By David T
•Oct 28, 2016
I really wish I could give this course more stars, the content is great and well delivered and at a perfect level for someone like me who last worked with big data sets when 20Mb was absolutely enormous and Windows 3.1 was cutting edge technology. But and this seems to run across the whole specialisation, support from the course team varies between very patchy and none at all. Technical questions aren't answered for days if at all.
By Seyyed E S
•Jan 23, 2017
1. The course is very general and high level introduction.
2. During the lectures there are some examples that in some cases are presented as very small images and briefly. I personally could not understand some examples presented in week 5.
3. I found the hands-on lectures very helpful. I wish there was more that would delve into more examples in more details.
4. The course was very overpriced given the amount of information offered compared to other courses I have taken at coursera.
Thanks.
By Aniruddha J
•May 20, 2018
Definitely could have used more hands on practices. The hands on practice examples could've delved deeper into 'how' instead of just giving you the command lines to run. Majority of the times were spent on lectures talking about abstract concepts. While useful, more of that time would've been better spend on hands-on examples.
By Ali R
•Jun 24, 2016
3.5+ star course. I hope by studying the following courses, contents of this course prove to be more practical.
By Cédric L
•Oct 21, 2016
Reasonably good, but less structured and organized that the first course.
I hope the next one will be better on this aspect.
By Fanny S
•Oct 03, 2016
This was my second course of six. It was so theoretical but at the final exam it required so much exercises. I propose enrich the course with exercises and hands on
By Nicolás J C
•Sep 21, 2017
The course has a lot of information that is completely useful for BD, I feel that it needs more hand-on exercises. For example, all those BDMS they listed are very useful, but it would have been more practical and fun to teach with an exercise, rather than 50+ slides.
By Aude M
•Jan 05, 2018
Very interesting but I struggled with some of the content: the level jumps suddenly, and the course lacks some clear examples of application.
By Moses B R H
•Jun 19, 2017
Week 6 Peer graded assignment instruction should be more detailed.
By David P
•Aug 01, 2017
The course is great. The final peer-reviewed project is interesting, but very badly designed. The explanations are fairly confusing, and the peer-reviewed format really doesn't fit this assignement, as modeling can be performed in many different ways, that untrained peers might not recognize.
By Christine G
•Aug 09, 2017
Capstone assignment was disappointing.
By Mike D
•Apr 13, 2017
Good information overall, but the "peer graded" assignment at the end is poorly designed and seems unnecessarily arbitrary. Not a clear value add over a "final exam" format to justify waiting days for someone to "grade" your work. Instructions for this assignment are poorly written and unclear - for example, completely NOT clear you are asking us to identify a primary key versus stating there is no primary key, etc.
By Shalaka M
•Aug 31, 2017
I feel the assignments were a little vague and such assignments should be reviewed by mentors and not just fellow colleagues. Also, the concept on which the questions were based, were not covered that widely.
Additionally, if someone wants to refer to the slides in future they should be able to get the information they want from the slides itself, so they could be made more descriptive.
By Barend M
•Jul 13, 2017
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