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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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It's a very introductory course and in a sense I don't feel like I learnt something useful, except the part that shows how to install all the tools that are needed for the rest of the Specialization.

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A good basic class and collection of the tools. I wish there had been a little more explanation of what we would use the software for, but I found the lecture parts to be both concise and informative.

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By Anit B

Jun 27, 2016

Introductory Course mostly around installation and setup for the other courses in Specializations

By Sergey I

Mar 10, 2016

Maybe, I am already somehow experienced, but I think that the time I spent on that was a waste :/

By Brian F

Jun 15, 2017

This course is very basic and takes nowhere near 1 month. I spent about 3 hours in total on it.

By Nayef

Mar 30, 2017

i feel that the course need more explanation .. i got really lost in the begging of the HW

By Raviprakash R S

Feb 13, 2017

This module is just enough material for 1 or 2 lectures with "How to get started" notes..

By Abhijeet S

Oct 17, 2020

Course is okayish, automated voice is bit annoying and some contents are not up to date

By Mike J

Jan 26, 2016

Good introduction of what is to come, but nothing too provocative or thought provoking.

By Urmil T

Aug 3, 2020

Automated Voice is not helpful as it doesn't let you concentrate and makes you sleepy.

By Mohamed H

Aug 31, 2020

The automated voice is extremely annoying but apart from that everything is good

By Abdallah A

Mar 2, 2019

The instructor is an automated speaker, it was too bad, I couldn't focus at all.

By 潇湘夜雨动清愁

May 7, 2016

the speech is too fast to be catch up with and doesn't have much useful contents

By matthieu c

Jun 3, 2017

Absolutely interesting, but a loss of time if someone already knows the basics.

By Patrick B

Jun 30, 2016

Not sure this should be a course that is charged ....

on to the next one now.

By Anna D

Mar 4, 2018

It's great to learn how to use GitHub but this hardly qualifies as a course.

By SREE V P

Apr 12, 2024

I have completed all my task but I am not able to download my certificate

By Dennis W

Feb 21, 2016

Very introductory. This material could have been compressed into 1 week.

By Laura B

May 1, 2022

Robot voice was uninteresting to learn with. Had to go Youtube to learn.

By Arun R

Jan 7, 2019

Very basic - Did not teach all the necessary things required with Git.

By Hugo R

Sep 28, 2017

Isn't very usefull, I'm impatient to start the R programming courses.

By HARSH K S

May 27, 2020

This course is not much interactive because it includes boots voice.

By Neil J

Jun 16, 2016

Extraordinarily basic. Entire thing can be done in about two hours.

By Ng Z J

Mar 18, 2016

Might be useful for total newbies, but this was very simple for me.

By Rose G

Jul 11, 2019

Not that interesting, but gives you the basis to install R and git

By Amir N

Jun 21, 2017

A little bit vague, could use more practice using git and git hub.

By Kristin N

Jun 7, 2016

Jumps around, doesn't put anything into "real world" examples.