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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Reproducible Research by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

This course focuses on the concepts and tools behind reporting modern data analyses in a reproducible manner. Reproducible research is the idea that data analyses, and more generally, scientific claims, are published with their data and software code so that others may verify the findings and build upon them. The need for reproducibility is increasing dramatically as data analyses become more complex, involving larger datasets and more sophisticated computations. Reproducibility allows for people to focus on the actual content of a data analysis, rather than on superficial details reported in a written summary. In addition, reproducibility makes an analysis more useful to others because the data and code that actually conducted the analysis are available. This course will focus on literate statistical analysis tools which allow one to publish data analyses in a single document that allows others to easily execute the same analysis to obtain the same results....

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Without taking this course wouldn't have fully understood the importance of reproducible research in data science. Thank you so much. I recommend this course for all data scientists.

YM

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If you are at university (PhD student, academic, researcher, etc.) then you kind of know most of the "theory". However, practising R was a huge plus (personally, I liked the Week 4 task).

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By Angela W

Sep 15, 2017

Despite this being the course with the lamest name (sorry), I really enjoyed it! I learned a lot of new stuff and also got to apply the things that I learned in the previous courses (especially Exploratory Data Analysis), so I feel that this was time well spent.

By Deleted A

Sep 21, 2018

The course was fantastic. I realized the power that a Data Science Analyze can create. In this module in particular, I was even more interested in completing the specialization. Thank you Professor Roger Penn and the entire team of teachers for their teachings.

By Arindam M

Mar 20, 2017

A great course which might not draw the right attention while moving towards a data scientist role. But without a great deal of focus on the communication of analysis is even more important to gain buy-ins within or outside the org. Will keep them in mind.

By Scipione S

Jun 7, 2020

Wonderful course. Maybe you could enlarge the part related on litarate programming, and you could change the position in Data Science Specialization. I also think, it would be better to arrange it after Statistical Inference and Regression Models courses.

By Eduardo A

Feb 10, 2017

This course makes us re-think things that we take for granted. I was shocked in the beginnig on how we ignore practices that should be the basics of any research. As the course progress, I learned new concepts what is essential to our self development.

By Arunkumar M

Sep 11, 2017

I guess from the case studies and research on the web whats I learned from this course is the importance of reproducible research is. This course explains the importance of it and the ways to achieve it easily and concisely. Thanks for the authors.

By Dan K H

Apr 11, 2016

This turned out to be one of the more fun courses, especially listening to Rogers lecture "live in class room" and also the case presented by M.D. Anderson was great. I really enjoyed this course, even more than I initially expected to.

By Lowell R

Oct 7, 2016

This is an excellent course which teaches you fundamental best practices in research. After completion you will look back at early scripts in horror! It's unfortunate that the practices you learn aren't more widely practiced.

By Ray L J

May 2, 2017

My favorite course in the degree, so far! I started applying what I learned immediately. This course should be mandatory for any data analyst, as the concepts are applicable no matter which language or tools are used.

By 坂本幹次

Sep 29, 2020

There are important things you usually dismiss.

The lecture is great and it really deserve professional course.

This lecture is potentially hard, so you should spend a lot of time for the lessons and course projects.

By Jordan I

Jan 8, 2020

Great course that provides a structure for analysis and how to challenge the analysis. I found the assignments hard. The lack of information about the data for the assignment represented a real-life situation.

By Jorge B S

Aug 20, 2019

I have found this course very useful in order to learn the keys of reproducible research. Moreover, both course projects are useful for putting other skills of this specialisation into practice. I recommend it!

By Regis O

Aug 29, 2016

This course had a profound impact on the procedures I use for data analysis. It provides best practices for documenting the steps of the analysis to ensure accuracy and quality. I highly recommend taking this.

By James S

May 21, 2016

This has been a great introductory course into reproducible research. The topics were clearly carefully chosen and wisely integrated to create a smooth flow. Money well spent and invaluable knowledge gained!

By Marco A M A

Mar 8, 2016

It is a nice introduction to some important issues in scientific research, may not be so intresting to non academic data scientist hopefuls, but it is very important, I think to those that are within academia.

By Rumian R

Aug 20, 2020

A very important course that greatly improved my ability to communicate the findings of any sort of data analysis that I perform. This is a critical skill to acquire to "deliver the means."

By Alán G ( G

May 2, 2019

A very useful course. It helped me to improve the way I structure the analysis at my current job, especially by keeping track of every transformation I apply to the data I’m working with.

By Aram M

Jun 23, 2017

Of course, I liked this course. There was even an extra non-graded assignment. Plus two graded assignments. Quality instruction videos and lots of practice. Everything a learner needs.

By Mikael F

Mar 31, 2022

I took this course as part of the Data Science specialization without any real expectation and realized that this subject is probably one of the most important in data analysis.

By Chetan T

Apr 22, 2019

This course is very helpful in terms of not only doing the analysis but also getting to know the finer nuances of making a structured markdown document for future reproducible.

By Ramesh G

Apr 30, 2020

Great topic which is discussed well with a good case study. I'd like to see more up-to-date content and more detailed analytical techniques. However, it's a nice introduction!

By Ryan H

Aug 21, 2017

I personally got a lot out of this, both from a philosophical perspective and a nuts-and-bolts perspective. And I got to practice a lot of stuff learned on earlier courses.

By Luis T

Jul 21, 2022

This course provides the necessary resources to learn how to do good science, what is reproducibility and few guidelines about how to write a good report using RMarkdown.

By Dylan E

Aug 5, 2017

Very informative and enjoyable class. The importance of reproducible research is stressed clear and concisely, Roger D. Peng does a great job of explaining the material.

By Vishwamitra M

Feb 14, 2020

Highly recommended for beginners to learn the basics of Data Science, Re-producibility and how to write a good report around the analysis done by you as a data analyst.