Learner Reviews & Feedback for Computational Social Science Methods by University of California, Davis
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Excellent course and the instructor(s) make it even more engaging. I love Martin Hilbert and his explanations, examples. I enjoyed course 1 alot and continuing course 2 at the moment.
This is a great course to take as an introduction to Computational Social Science. I hope the rest of the Specialization is just as engaging, relevant, and informative.
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By Diego A P P
•Excellent course. I learned practical skills.
By Sukanto M
•A much needed course in the current scenario.
By Akhil S
•Good Overview, 10,000 ft bird's eye view ;)
By Angad P T
•Great learning experience! Thank you
By Yeh-Kang C
•Not that hard but really fruitful.
By Gil V B
•Very good course ; 5 stars
By Benjamin P
•Excellent introduction!!!!
By Mauricio G G
•Excellent course
By Leen A K
•Amazing!
By Mona A A
•good
By Ben B
•The specialization offers a great first overview of the field of computational social sciences. You will work with simple (and messy) tools which offer you the opportunity to get your hands dirty quickly. Most likely, you will not use these very tools later in your own research because they are just to limited and simple. Prof Hilbert is an entertaining lecturer and all the guest lectureres (or collaborators) in the specialization offer interesting insights. Be warned that the peer-review process might take a while (a couple of days). There are other learners but it seems that this course (and all courses of the specialization) are not that crowded.
By Noor Q
•This is a really fun course, even though I had some knowledge in the topic it is presented in a fun creative way that I learned a lot and never felt bored.
There were few issues though, the peer graded assessment asks for 5 pictures and then awards people who post more than 5 without saying that is the case in the instructions, as a teacher myself I would never expect students to provide more than they are asked for and penalize them if they don't.
I also found some of the machine learning lecture in week 3 confusing, especially considering I had some background which made me able to keep up, others might struggle.
By Anirban P
•The first hands-on assignment using web-scraper was really interesting. I would have liked to see a few more similar assignments n other Modules as well. Overall the course was good at providing basic information related to different computational methods that can be used in Social sciences, in a fun and interactive way.
By QUINIOU V
•Very insightful introduction to computational social science methods. I understand that modelling is not an easy stuff, and we have to very careful when manipulating them, or deduce and propose things. It is very fascinating to learn all the discoveries from Pr Fowler.
By G.W
•Good and comprehensive overview of computational social sciences
By Abhyudaya A
•Great course
By ROBERT W C
•Great content! Quiz questions need to be reconsidered, and more projects would be useful
By Belle B
•I wish that there would be safer ways to practice the webscraping assignment haha perhaps an existing dataset?
By luisa d
•I ALREADY WROTE TO SUSPEND THIS COURSE FOR A WHILE BECAUSE I AM TOO BUSY. WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME THE PAYMENT ???
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