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

The course was very helpful and instructions were concise and easy to understand. Great for those fumbling around to scour the net for which tools to start with.

A very good introductory course, However it requires a lot of personal research and reading to master the area, I believe more video excercises would be useful.

That's great class. The way it explained is very clear. However the class is a bit basic for me. I was expected to learn syntax of R ect., but still a goo one!

I was very excited about this course, learned a lot. But, it became boring in the middle. Although, it was good considering the reading materials to back me up

It's a little bit boring, since you have to study a lot of toolbox without seeing them in actions for a few days. Best to watch at faster speed x1.25 at least

The tutorial on github was not very clear to me, and the images used during the video and for the reading section were very blurry. Everything else was helpful

A very superficial overview of the main tools used by a data scientist. Recommendation: The course could have more content. The quality of the content is good!

Helps install and set up the necessary software, but does require you to do bit of searching on the web to completely understand certain aspects of the course.

This Course is a great start for the specialization. The course is designed in a very thought manner so as to help a novice understand concepts easily. Thanks!

Nice course, sets you up with the basics for R programming, and sets you up with all the tools. Basic introduction to Git makes it interesting.

Overall, great.

Good introduction into basic data science tools and a nice starting point for the data science specialization. Yet, the certificate is a little bit overpriced.

Good insight to the broad subject of R and analytics, only reservation if the video lectures could have been delivered by some person and not automated voice.

The course is well structured, but I still feel that it lacks human touch as the documents are read out by a program. Looking forward to learning new skills.

It was excellent course. I gained new information. I believe it need's hand on practice and base information for beginners who does not have any back ground.

Overall Content was good but I'm actually disappointed by the tone of the videos by some computer voice which actually makes it more difficult to undertsand

Highly recommendable for beginners as you are going to get how to use the tools. I would recommend to go through this course before jumping to R programming

Covers all the basics. But yeah, just the very basics. Leaves a lot more to be learnt. I'm sure the upcoming courses in the specialization would be helpful

It was good - I think I would like a bit more on Github, but it gets covered in other courses. It shall have more material on the coverage of data science.

The introduction was very precise and straight to the core concepts of data science.

Please include a slide with the road map of becoming a data scientist.

Its a good basis. But i think there is a lot of information that is not relevant . Also, the materials of some questions are not mentioned in the videos.

It is good as a start for a beginner, but I do not think it is adequate to be a separate course. Much of the material can be easily addressed in one week.

It's a great course to have very basic introduction of Data Science.

In the meanwhile, also teach us how to install the necessary tool for future purpose.

Not the most engaging material, but the course does a good job of covering the fundamentals of R and GitHub and helps you download the necessary software.

Some typos in the slides need correction. Narration can be made more lively. Slides still quite classical in format and may be improved for better impact.

Good overview of Data Science, but geared more towards people who have little background in computer science. Info that *was* presented was very thorough.