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Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Data Scientist’s Toolbox by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

In this course you will get an introduction to the main tools and ideas in the data scientist's toolbox. The course gives an overview of the data, questions, and tools that data analysts and data scientists work with. There are two components to this course. The first is a conceptual introduction to the ideas behind turning data into actionable knowledge. The second is a practical introduction to the tools that will be used in the program like version control, markdown, git, GitHub, R, and RStudio....
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Foundational tools

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Introductory course

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Top reviews

SF

Apr 14, 2020

As a business student from Bangladesh who is aspiring to be a data analyst in near future, I love this course very much. The quizzes and assessments were the places to check how much I exactly learnt.

LR

Sep 7, 2017

It was really insightful, coming from knowing almost nothing about statistics or experimental design, it was easy to understand while not feeling shallow. Just the right amount of information density.

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By Rajat J

Mar 14, 2016

Good introductory course. However, an overkill as a separate course (and hence charging $30 for it). Courses 1 and 2 could have been clubbed together.

By Isaac A G

Apr 23, 2016

It has almost no content and isn't actually useful. I've heard later classes in the series are way tougher, so the ramp up isn't at all good.

By Subash L

Jul 17, 2021

Not taught by real professors. I want to unenroll out of this whole specialization; cant handle listening to robot. Annoying!!!

By Wei D

Apr 29, 2020

I think a few people like to hear the mechanical voice. Some videos have really low resolution and it is hard to see the codes.

By Marcelo X d N

Dec 25, 2017

Eu achei o site desorganizado, não sei se concluí ou não o curso. Não sei se executei todas as tarefas ou não. Decepcionante

By William B

Sep 3, 2022

Pretty boring course, felt like they just taught me how to download and install R, could be made shorter in my opinoin

By Molly M

May 6, 2023

The synthesized speech was very hard for me to listen to for lectures. I do not think I could maintain the course .

By Suryansh

Jan 30, 2022

That robotic voice ain't working with me at all! Having no instructors in the video is the worst thing they can do.

By Cotie G

Aug 26, 2023

This has been unavailable for me to start. I am very annoyed and frustrated as to why!

I would like to start now.

By F S

Mar 27, 2016

Not worth the price. Extremely basic stuff spread very thin over too much time just to be able to charge for it.

By Gianluca M

Jun 9, 2016

Useless. The information content is close to zero. Just some blah-blah and a long tutorial to install software.

By Luke S

Jun 4, 2016

Way too basic for the price - almost no content - this is just setup - I resent paying for setup instructions.

By John B

Nov 11, 2018

Horrible explanation regarding push and pull requests. Would not recommend this course to my friends.

By Gary N A

May 8, 2017

Poorly organized. Poorly communicated. No reliable source of assistance with technical problems.

By Stefan S

Oct 31, 2020

Would wish this course was not a requirement for specialization. Easy, and not giving anything.

By Omar A

Jul 22, 2020

An online non-credit course authorized by Johns Hopkins University and offered through

Coursera

By George K

Dec 7, 2019

The courses are not by a real instructor/professor but are scripts read out loud by a machine.

By Tony W

Apr 11, 2016

The course does not warrant the price, it has way too little information. Very dissatisfied.

By Espen R

May 31, 2017

This course could be summed up in one page or so. Very little content.

GitHub lessons good.

By Jordana Z

Aug 24, 2020

The robot voice is terrible. This needs to be fixed. I wish it was an actual person.

By Wesley M

Nov 28, 2020

I finished this course in one day. It is ridiculous as it is poorly structured.

By unteachable

May 17, 2016

By far to expansive for what you get. Anyway, thanks for the hint about swirl.

By Samuel M M

May 8, 2020

Horiible, me volvieron a cobrar un cuando ya lo había terminado. Una estafa

By Bernard

Sep 9, 2020

This course was extremely exciting for me. I enjoy every bit of the course.

By Aung K

Dec 2, 2016

Not worth 29$ considering you could take away very little from this course.