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About the Course

This course will introduce the learner to the basics of the python programming environment, including fundamental python programming techniques such as lambdas, reading and manipulating csv files, and the numpy library. The course will introduce data manipulation and cleaning techniques using the popular python pandas data science library and introduce the abstraction of the Series and DataFrame as the central data structures for data analysis, along with tutorials on how to use functions such as groupby, merge, and pivot tables effectively. By the end of this course, students will be able to take tabular data, clean it, manipulate it, and run basic inferential statistical analyses. This course should be taken before any of the other Applied Data Science with Python courses: Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python, Applied Machine Learning in Python, Applied Text Mining in Python, Applied Social Network Analysis in Python....

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HC

May 3, 2018

It's very useful specially for new learner because it only dives into the part of python that data science need. I strongly recommend to anyone even if you don't have experience in programming before.

YH

Sep 28, 2021

This is the practical course.There is some concepts and assignments like: pandas, data-frame, merge and time. The asg 3 and asg4 are difficult but I think that it's very useful and improve my ability.

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By Kishlay K

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May 17, 2017

Great course for beginners in data science with some knowledge in python. Nice techniques for data cleaning and transformation are shown. But one needs more than what is in the lecture videos to complete the assignments.

By Atif A

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Feb 14, 2023

Very Beneficial course and full of skills in that era.

Every Student must learn that course.

Thanks to the Coursera platform for such type of educational activities.

Thanks to the Instructor and the University of Michigan.

By Hieu T T

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Oct 19, 2019

The course introduces very basic skills to Data Science using Python. In my case, the most important one is to use Pandas. I think Pandas is one of the most important tools. Therefore, I prefer Week 2 and 3 than week 4.

By Puneet S

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Sep 8, 2018

Passing criteria can sometimes be difficult, but follow Dr. Brooks' instruction.

Use pandas docs, and stackoverflow.com.

Try to be consistent with work and you'll be done in no time, after all this is a four week course.

By Mausam G

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Jun 30, 2018

The assignments were tough!! Probably the course expects you to learn a few things here and there from external sources too. Other wise, it did a fantastic job in creating a solid foundation for me in python and pandas.

By Sebastian J

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Sep 24, 2023

This course is a wonderful way to start your data science journey. You can learn the fundamentals of data manipulations with numpy and pandas, it has a great set of data sets, challenges and quices to test your skills.

By Marlon R

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Jul 26, 2022

It lives up to the title and more. Only minus, some of the problems could have been better explained.

Also, make sure you take an intro into python and pandas, even if you are a beginner or a part-time/hobby programmer.

By Abhijit R

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Sep 4, 2020

Very good courses on data science I came here after getting certified in deep learning and was lost on how to do pre-processing of data now I am familiar with the idea and would like to continue with the specilisation.

By Johan C A J

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Aug 12, 2020

It was a great experience, i am grateful for the chance that Universidad nacional from colombia gives me, i did can to improve a little more my programming skills, and to be close to basic notions about data treatment.

By Adrian A

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Jun 21, 2020

It's good to relearn some basic concepts and even learn a new trick or two. I can truly say that Jupyter, pandas, numpy, and scipy are good statistical tools in try to process the data that we are trying to understand.

By OBILLE, V P (

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Sep 3, 2019

I want to thank University of Michigan for giving us the opportunity to learn Introduction to Data Science in Python, it really gives us the knowledge that put us to the edge in learning to be competitive in the scene.

By Darius T

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Mar 13, 2018

Great course for learning and practicing how to work with Pandas. The only thing I would like to mention for improvement is to make videos more relevant to assignments, and videos itself should consist of more lectures

By Tibor B

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Mar 3, 2017

I really enjoyed this course. For me it was'n easy at all but I still say that you find the right way to help the students without make the assignments pointless. Thank you so much for this great learning opportunity!

By Ali K

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Dec 18, 2016

Excellent course and the content is presented very efficiently. I often watch lecture for other courses at a 1.25x or 1.5x speed, but this was different. I could barely keep up at the regular speed. Highly recommended.

By SEBASTIAN C L

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Dec 9, 2020

Excellent course to introduce you in the numpy and pandas libraries in Python and other topics about reading and manipulating data . You should have basics in Python programming because the course is some challenging.

By Hasan T

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May 9, 2020

Excellent course for a detailed introduction to pandas. The assignments were great facilitators to the course content and required good understanding of concepts and a fair amount of use of the official documentation.

By Atharva S

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May 1, 2020

It was bit fast, but overall the quality of assignments was really good!

Took me a while to solve the assignments but the questions were of good quality and skill.

Thank you University of Michigan!

Thank you Coursera!!

By Alex S

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Dec 13, 2018

The videos are pithy and the exercises are challenging for beginners. This class is an introductory course, but not from scratch. If you haven't dabbled with Pandas before you may find this class extremely fast paced.

By Ying G

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Aug 29, 2018

good starting pointing to get familiar with pandas dataframe through the assignments and project. I had to read other resources and watch other videos online to complete the assignments, but I think that is the point.

By Juan C G

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Jul 26, 2020

Debes tener al menos un nivel de conocimiento del tema, los ejercicios son retantes para los que apenas estan empezando. Por lo que, sugiero en cada ejercicio leer o complementar las clases con documentacion externa.

By Raviprakash J

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May 15, 2018

The Course was to introduce the attendee to Data Science in Python and did a great job. I was introduced to most of the basics and I am happy with what I was gone through from Day 1 to till date.

Thanks for everything

By Lisha G

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Apr 9, 2017

Recommend this course to people new to Python and want to learn basic data science techniques quickly. Very inspiring lectures given by professor and very helpful instructions given by mentors and teaching assistant.

By Evan S

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Jul 11, 2020

What a great way to be introduced to Data Science! Python makes this subject very accessible, even to non-CS majors, and the heavy focus on Pandas helped my gain transferable skills to other fields of data analysis.

By Hongyuan L

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Jul 3, 2020

Overall, it is an excellent introduction to data science in python. The assignments are a little bit challenging, but after conquering all the difficulties, you will for sure be able to dig deeper into data science.

By Reginaldo S

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Jan 31, 2020

This is a perfect course for anyone who wants to learn data science with Python. I definitely recommend this course for students interested in manipulate data and find interesting relations among different datasets.