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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

LR

Sep 7, 2017

It was really insightful, coming from knowing almost nothing about statistics or experimental design, it was easy to understand while not feeling shallow. Just the right amount of information density.

SF

Apr 14, 2020

As a business student from Bangladesh who is aspiring to be a data analyst in near future, I love this course very much. The quizzes and assessments were the places to check how much I exactly learnt.

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By Hanqi Z

Jul 12, 2017

This is generally speaking a good course. The only problem is that the instructions are sometimes not detailed enough for beginners

By Avinash P

Jun 24, 2016

A great starting. Perfect for providing a foundation. However, instead of slideshow, a few real-time videos would have been better.

By Sachin K

Jun 7, 2016

This course has given me a basic knowledge of different tools and statistical techniques that data scientist use to play with data.

By Moemen A

Mar 5, 2016

An essential introduction to the rest of the specialization program, but not too much information included in the course by itself.

By Danny N

Jul 19, 2021

A great introduction course to the world of data science, Github and R programming. Easy for a beginner like myself to understand.

By Katherine H

Jan 4, 2021

This was a great course to get set-up and an initial introduction to all the important programs and software that interact with R.

By Ansh M

Nov 30, 2017

The introduction to Git and GitHub could have been a bit less theoretical and more practical. Overall, a good introductory course.

By Jingfang

Jul 3, 2017

I hope the content of this course would cover more materials during lecture. But overall, I am very happy with this course so far.

By Ritu T

Nov 6, 2016

Ideal course to get you started for a data science specialisation. Informs about and helps you install all the required softwares.

By Vinay

Jun 1, 2016

Overall, I liked being exposed to Github and GitBash. I felt this course gave me a broad overview of what to expect in the future!

By Sooraj

Jul 22, 2023

Sometimes its hard to read all the learning materials. The video is like a Robot is taking the class, Sometimes get little bored.

By Sehrish A

Sep 2, 2021

Course was very good and informative but the speed of voice in videos was very fast. In the start it was difficult to understand.

By Umair A K

May 8, 2020

Even though the content was good, but this is more like a 2 week course. I finished it in 4 days spending on average 1 hour daily

By Kumari N A

May 21, 2017

If you are completely new to Data Science, then this is very good course to start with. All the basics are explained very nicely.

By Marco A R

Nov 16, 2016

Me pareció un buen curso introductorio donde conoces herramientas que se supone te ayudaran en tu carera como científico de datos

By vishal b

Oct 16, 2016

More number of hours are given than required. Good learning for non IT field people. For people with IT background, its too easy.

By Jon b

Feb 17, 2016

A little basic, but necessary to get everything you need set up for the next classes in the series. And it does that well enough.

By Surya T

Sep 12, 2018

Good course and it's great that Coursera has designed this course separately.

Enjoying the journey of data science with Coursera.

By Alexandra D

Jun 28, 2016

Would have bee nice if it included a bit more "in Git" tutorials, but that is easily figured out when left to one's own devices.

By Nica P

Feb 21, 2021

Great introduction to Data Science and useful tools. The AI voice took some time to get used to, but overall a good experience.

By Ivan A

Aug 24, 2020

The course provides a good theoretical basis to get into data science and it is also very practical to link github with Rstudio

By Elvis M M

Jun 1, 2020

The introductory course is very helpful. Getting to know the use of Git and GitHub is very appealing and will be of importance.

By Martín S

Dec 30, 2019

Excelent, very clear. I only have problems with some changes in the versions of the programs. But fortunately I could solve it.

By A B C

Jun 26, 2017

Great content for beginners, who actually need a start about what data science is all about and where it is used all around us.

By debashis r

Feb 8, 2017

Its a good course those who prefer to study online.It gives a basic knowledge about the data tools which are going to be used.