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Apr 16, 2020
Hi it is very helpful to me. Concept is properly explained. I enjoyed learning process. Expect some more courses on data science as well as on python which involves real time application.Thanks a lot.
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Jul 22, 2017
This is neat little course to revise math fundamentals. I generally find learning probability a little tricky. This course helped me a lot in better understanding Bayes Theorem. Thank you professors.
By Borja C
•Sep 10, 2020
The first 3 weeks are quite good... but then it makes a gigantic leap on the 4th week. Please update the explanations on Bayes and the examples... they are not optimal. Judging from the comments I have seen, I am not the only one.
Thinking about it, I think maybe it would be worth to spend more time with probability and a bit less with the other stuff or even add another week... definitely probability in one week is a far shot... and it is key to understand data science correctly
By Liya P
•Apr 10, 2023
First two chapters of the course are good, the last chapter is undoable. I do not recommend this course if you want a certificate, because the last chapter can be done only with way more learning and one to one teaching. I do advise going through the first two chapters if you are intersted in learning math on this topic, just be ready not to be able to finish the whole course because of very poor instructions and difficult questions on the probability chapter.
By Helene H
•Sep 25, 2020
A pretty good course even if week 3 and 4 are very difficult for beginners.
A few improvements are urgently needed:
-There are mistakes in the quizzes, which mistakes have been pointed out by generations of students for months/years in the forums, but have never been corrected. Such a disgrace and waste of student time!
-Also using Chrome makes you unable to read the formulas, which should be said in the course outset.
By Deepak R
•Dec 27, 2020
At week 4 the course was covered in a rush. This course could have been much better if the instructor could have taken the time out and walked the extra mile to simplify the concepts for a larger audience. I already had previous rigorous treatment of Probability theory hence didn't face many challenges. But I have empathy with students enrolling in this course who don't have prior probability background.
By Yury K
•Jul 14, 2020
Course has misleading title. It has no strong connection to data science problems or examples from the field (except confussion matrix). First 3 weeks are simple math. Third one is very brief tour to probability with quite brief explanations which will not be enough for beginners to complete the assignment. There are also errors in the asssigments which I had reported.
I will not recommend it.
By Joel L
•Sep 8, 2020
Instructors were knowledgeable, but I found the lectures to be a theoretical example, followed by a very simple real-life example. Then when you take the quiz, the questions are SIGNIFICANTLY more complicated than what I was ever taught in the lessons. Some worksheets of sample problems that escalate up to the difficulties seen in the quiz would have been very helpful.
By utsav s
•May 5, 2020
The course content was very basic. Especially the first part of the course.
The later part(probability) of the course was very theoretical in nature. Typical problems in quizzes and examples as you would find in any mathematics text book. Being Data Science Maths skills course, I was expecting some real life example or even the mention of data science during the course.
By Miroslav T
•Jun 12, 2022
The first part in the course in too basic, but atleast the level of task is equal to material.
The second part is too short for such a complicated topic. And lack of example doesn't help to solve the problems after each week. I had to check other sources for more clearer explanation.
Overal the course doesn't cover the topic, it just has a "loud naming".
By Amar P
•Jul 12, 2021
The course started of well paced but began to get complex and hard for me to pick up the logic. i clearly had a bad experience especially in probability part. could have used more understandable examples and explanations . although its said that this course is entirely for beginners, i feel its best suited for people who comes to refresh the topics .
By Derek L
•Oct 10, 2024
The first part of the course is taught by Paul Bendich and it was great. Everything was done step by step and well explained. The second half was taught by Daniel Egger and it was terrible. He skips a bunch of steps and you basically have no shot at doing the quizzes the first time. I'm glad I only audited the course and did not pay for it.
By Esdras C
•Mar 6, 2020
After the second week, explanations become too abstract without a concrete explanation of how relates with the real world. Also, the examples are too short compare to the problems that are included in the quizzes. It will be way more interesting to learn the explanation of the quizzes than the abstract examples during the presentations.
By John
•Jul 22, 2020
Some useful concepts, but several of them, especially in the last week of the course, were very vague and did not give examples on how to use them to solve problems, which is the point of the course. If i wanted definitions and formulas I can just google them. The whole point of a video is to teach me how to apply it
By Shadman W
•May 20, 2020
The initial modules are insightful and helpful. But I had a lot of problems going through the material in week 4. The instructor struggles to make the content engaging and the videos often end up sounding very monotone. There's a big gap between the material discussed and the questions asked in practice.
By Jansen A
•Dec 31, 2020
The course is fairly easy and unchallenging. It's like an introduction in maths for high school students. I was expecting harder maths related to data science and/or machine learning, but this is just a review of high school maths. Not entirely a waste of time, but disappointing.
By TANMAY A
•May 28, 2020
baye's theorem and the binomial addition to it should have been explained broadly, this is a multi country based program , people from different country access it. hence each and every formulae and colocations should be explained better and write-in a better way.
By Michael Q
•Apr 7, 2017
Very rushed presentation. Blows right through a lot of fundamental concepts without a deep enough explanation or enough practice material (especially in the last two weeks). I feel like completing this class will require supplementation with better instruction.
By Enrico L
•May 30, 2020
I was attracted by the syllabus (substance) but I found the presentation of the teachers quite disturbing (form); bad calligraphy, some mistakes, poor explanations. Anyway I completed the course and it will be useful as a general introduction to the topics.
By Raj
•Sep 17, 2021
As a stand-alone course, this is perhaps only for folks with above-average IQ. There was hardly any attempt to explain any of the concepts in a new/simple/intuitive manner. I wonder what the other students saw in this course resulting in the high rating.
By Chris D
•Dec 27, 2021
The first three weeks had explanations that made sense (i.e. helped me learn the concepts). However, week 4 did not have enough material and it was really hard to work out what was going on, so I had to resort to Khan Academy and You Tube!
By David S
•May 26, 2020
The probability section left many serious gaps in information compared to the test. I had to take the exam multiple times, and even after restarting half of the class twice. I'm not usually one to have to do this for a class.
By Hitesh D
•Jun 21, 2020
Video lectures were not very clear. It looked like these lectures are for revision and not for learning it first time. Baye's Theorem is yet not clear to me... I just mugged up some formulas which i will eventually forget.
By Sandeep M
•May 21, 2020
The weeks 1-3 although elementary were explained well but the change of professor on the last one really did nothing. There were far better tutors on youtube teaching the same things he did more clearly.
By Jayu C
•Aug 31, 2020
Concepts not covered well enough, just for the sake of teaching. Pure time waste. Bayesian Theory was not taught up to the mark, I had to refer external resources to understand it well.
By Gaurav A
•May 24, 2020
the video learning was good, but the quiz questions were at a very different difficulty levels. I would just like to say that this was supposed to be an beginner level course.