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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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Top reviews

AI

Apr 23, 2018

This course was a good intro especially in setting all the necessary software for future courses. I suggest to read the manuals, books and other readings the profs suggest. The resources are helpful.

AK

Mar 11, 2020

I would like to thank Coursera and Johns Hopkins University for the course, I learned new things in the course which I think is the next step which can help me to accomplish my future goals.Thank you.

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By Omar K

Jan 26, 2017

The course is a nice set up for tools and environments that you need for other data science courses.

By Jordi A B

Feb 9, 2016

It's fine, but mabe quite easy. 4 Weeks are too much. This course could be done in a couple of days.

By Rakesh A K

Feb 22, 2021

It is helpful to grace my knwoledge and i get better knowledge from these course thank u very much.

By Kyaw W

Dec 13, 2020

Better u python instead of R programming.

and put guided for course material installing on Linux OS.

By Venkata R S R

Mar 20, 2020

The videos voice is a little different but overall the course content and explanation is very good.

By Kevin H

Jun 29, 2017

Certainly informative and set up very well. There wasn't a ton of content. This is a prep course.

By Priya D

Feb 3, 2017

Very thoughtful and well-executed course. Although, one of the professor's voice is not very clear.

By Cristina P G

Jan 10, 2016

Very easy going, but I think week 3 has much information, maybe a step by step toturial might help.

By NIKHIL V

Apr 30, 2020

This course has enabled me to further extend my capabilities to become an aspiring data enthusiast

By Loga S

Apr 10, 2020

I love everything in this course except the robotic voice. Atleast some good robotic voice will do

By Jim L

Oct 19, 2017

Very very basic, but will get you set up from what I imagine is the more strenuous work to come...

By Ben G

Nov 7, 2016

Good course for an introduction, the next course in the data scientist specialisation gets better.

By Kim W

Nov 5, 2020

A good overview of data science generally and a very helpful introduction to R Studio and GitHub.

By HU Y

Jan 14, 2017

It's the basic introduction courses for data science and it's good, we can learn a lot from this.

By Kailash K

May 6, 2020

It helps to clear the concepts which are not given clear in other platform this helps to improve

By Mohammed A A E

Mar 31, 2020

Not a very detailed course and very tough one, needs you to read a lot outside to fully grasp it

By Alexandre

Oct 30, 2018

Good introduction for real beginners. Someone that studied in the field would already know that.

By José G

Oct 14, 2017

An excellent course, however I found the organization of the different subjects a bit confusing.

By Avinash A

May 14, 2017

Contents are precise and well explained. For extra knowledge, you can always search on internet.

By sai

Feb 1, 2017

Pretty helpful . But 4 weeks is an awful lot of time for the content being taught in this course

By Shuwen Y

May 22, 2016

Great intro. Too bad you need to pay in order to get quiz answer or statement of accomplishment.

By Shahtaz R

Jun 28, 2021

Course contents were good but it had no instructor for the video. Robotic voice was too boring.

By Andrea M S

Dec 13, 2020

You will have to look up updates and a few how-tos on your own in order to complete the course.

By chintamani M

May 4, 2020

very good course with strong focus on building basic foundations and making concepts very clear

By Pritam D

Jun 5, 2019

I was having a problem with quiz 1 of week 2.

otherwise, the overall course really benefited me.