The test questions are over one or two things stated in a video and not over your understanding of the concepts. They also ask questions about a tool that she spends less then a minute displaying and doesn't explain what it tells you at all.

A very thorough overview of SQL and how to best structure data tables and metrics for AB testing. I appreciate the high quality content of the UC Davis courses!

I was disappointed with this course on following points. I think these points should be improved. 1. The instructions on Exercises and the Final Assignments must be clear and precise. The questions were vague and hard to understand. 2. The solution videos are not clear. The instructor is mumbling and not easy to understand what she is saying. The solutions should be available in pdf format (they should be unlocked after the students finish the exercises and going through the solution videos.

Good course, not very productive instruction though!

I finished the first SQL course and this is 2nd in a sequence of 4, but it wasn't a good followup. It seems like the 2 courses are randomly patched up. There is not a good transition from 1 to 2. Skills or topics were not covered in SQL intro, so I kept going to Dr. Google and finding new sources to bridge the gap. It got enoying enough for me to drop this whole certificate and go with someone else's. If I have to do this much bridging and catching up, might as well do a different course set. First one was great, this one is not.

i am so disappointed with whole classes, when i finished the first week , i even didn't understand what the teacher was talking about , there was no any logical thinking through the class

I don't understand a single thing she have taught from 1st week to the last. It is so terrible. I don't pay for something like this

Before you start familiarize yourself with mode.com and the report builder function, it is required for the final project. This is an advanced class with an assumption of baseline skill. If you don't have that skill you may find yourself in the weeds solving problems. But, the explanation by the instructor, Kat, really do help you understand how to solve problems. I did find myself struggling with some of the problems, in part because the problems can be vague, like real life. My advice, follow her code and logic and skills she teaches.

It is pretty useful course to understand how to prepare data for AB Testing in real database environment. you should know SQL intermediate leve before starting this course.

This class is really freakin boring and there isnt an ER diagram, so it makes it harder to code up the solutions. Not to mention the typing sound effect when the woman would discuss solutions.

Content was hard to follow and very little instructions were given on how Mode works.

Poorly conceived and terribly executed overview of terms loosely associated with SQL. Initially I was kind of surprised that UC Davis would associate itself with such an embarrassingly deficient product. Once UC Davis started sending me unrelated fundraising emails, however, the purpose of the course became clearer. Data Wrangling, Analysis and AB Testing with SQL is a cynical marketing stunt which is primarily a means for generating a fundraising listserv. I would recommend the free SQL tutorial from Mode, however.

I struggled mightily with this course. I regularly Googled, as I often do when stuck, but found no help there. I had no idea what to do with the final assignment. Part of that might have been my approach to the class and how busy I've been lately, but the class was also structured poorly. Very little connection between what was "taught" and what was assigned. Several assignments repeated questions and some had the beginning of questions with no conclusion. The first bad experience with Coursera, but a rotten one.

This is really the worst Cousera course I've ever learned!!

There some many mistakes in the video and it's poorly structured, especially in the 4th week you couldn't even understand what the lecturer wanted to talk about...

this is honestly one of the worst courses i've ever take on coursera, unprepared instructor, the lessons weren't well managed, had to do a lot of extra work and study from outside blogs to clearly understand the topic

Couldnt share the final project. Also they are bad at teaching in this one.

However loved first course.

Worst course taken on Coursera.

Worst course i ever did.

Don't waste your time.

I'll give it a 5 mostly because this is one of the few in-depth SQL courses on the site, plus it actually goes beyond Joins and all that other pre-advanced stuff. I actually learnt new methods such as using windowing functions and using AB Testing. It could be better, yes, but we need more hands-on courses like this one.

A good course for learning and apply sql to conduct analysis on ab testing results. Would be better if the instructor could provide more info about how to design and apply AB Testing on the customers

Pretty informative course!

Sometimes the descriptions of the practice exercises seem a bit fuzzy, but as you go with the course it gets easier to understand how to interpret the requirements. Very helpful solution videos!

Did I learn some SQL and A/B testing concepts in this class? Yes, but it is by sheer will power and emotional fortitude. Throughout this entire course there was a debilitating misalignment between what was being explained in the videos, what was asked for in the practice exercises and what was actually demonstrated in the solution videos. Some of the practice tasks were worded so vaguely, I spent more time trying to figure out what was being asked of me than actually learning to query it. Even on the final peer-reviewed assignment, the test asked us to query just a few specific metrics but then the grading rubric contained several other columns that weren't mentioned in the instructions. It could have just said, "And any other relevant metrics you can think of," or something, and that would've been a cue to come up with some of the additional columns, but that's not what it asked for.

I'm currently waiting on a support case I opened because the Mode Analaytics workbooks we're supposed to grade at end of this course are returning a "You don't have permission" error so, after all this, I may not even be able to complete the course.

The course is not very well structure, I understand that this subject is not the easiest one to teach, but one thing that could help is to give a structured representation of the database with all the keys that are in it. you have to almost guess what is in it.

The videos should be more carefully planned, the solution videos are a little messy and some steps are not explain

From the start the course seemed to be interesting. However, the tutor Ms. Kat wasn't that great at her teaching skills. This is my view and experience and not sure about others. I felt she must have a great knowledge about Ab testing and SQL but unable to pass the same to her students. I faced difficulty in understanding her situation, examples and more importantly how she write queries. There is no explanation on how and where the query comes from. She states clearly that if you don't understand please review the previous course or lessons. There are many stuffs in Course 2 which were not taught or shown in Course 1 to refer from. All above, using Mode analytics was not that user-friendly specially while submitting the final assignment. There are not clear indication or guidance how to use where to go etc. If we need to do self learning we could have gone directly to mode and grasp the knowledge. Her solution videos with typing noise was irritating. Overall, the course has so much to learn and understand the data but for me it wasn't that easy with such tutor especially with fresher like me in IT field or SQL knowledge. Sadie on other hand for Course 1 was way better in explaining and easy to understand. All the best to other guys enrolling this course. I am thinking to enroll for next course which is SQL with Spark. Hope that will easy to understand. I would rate 2.5 stars actually.