TA
Aug 11, 2022
It is a very informative course, and the coach made it simple and enjoyable.
Thank you, Dr. James, for your innovative explanation of the material.
Take this course and do not hesitate.
DA
Aug 1, 2022
Perfect refresher course, gradually increasing in complexity and workload but James make the connections to previous content clear all the way. Highly recommended course!
By Elena K
•Dec 6, 2022
Great review of the essential linear algebra! Thank you!
By uk3578
•Oct 13, 2022
Loved it! Covered a lot in an efficient manner.
By Pallabi C
•May 19, 2022
Please provide proper solns to all assignments
By Jess R
•May 29, 2024
James Bird is an excellent teacher.
By Jolanta C
•May 25, 2022
great course, highly recommnended
By Jason D
•Jul 9, 2022
Excellent class for review!
By Bouifden r
•Oct 25, 2022
thank you very much.
By Philip R
•Mar 10, 2023
Great instructor!!!
By Hoyeon K (
•Aug 2, 2022
Very helpful
By Preethi S
•Nov 23, 2022
Very useful
By 727823TUIT137 N B
•Sep 7, 2024
good
By Emmitt M
•May 17, 2023
Definitely not an introductory course, but a great high-level overview of LA. If you are new to LA, I highly recommend watching the 3Blue1Brown LA series on YouTube followed by Khan Academy's LA series. THEN tackle this course. Overall though, it was a great delivery and truly is the essential LA concepts needed for Data Science.
By Allison S
•Apr 27, 2023
A good overview, but could have used a bit more information. I had to look up some concepts for myself in order to really understand it.
By Khoa P
•Feb 7, 2023
It's ok, not phenomenal
By Paul J
•May 30, 2024
Loved the content. The quizzes had good questions but the answer fields were incorrect and forced me to resort to listing one or two variables, etc. just to pass.
By Donovan A
•Jun 27, 2022
quite a short course. goes slowly so good for beginners actually. quite a few errors in course and some topics dont flow properly. not the best.
By Regan B
•Dec 5, 2022
I wish there was more practice for the topics and the discussion is not moderated so no one was able to get their questions answered.
By Paul O
•Oct 22, 2023
The course started out great. The instructor was very good and he explains things very well. However, starting in Week 4 I was disappointed with the content. Two videos were dedicated to the manual calculation of determinents. But when teaching Eigenvalues, he showed us how to caculate them using the determinant, but does't cover the reason why the determinant was used. Also, he shows us the Matrix formula for least squares, but doesn't even try to explain why it works. The target audience being Data Scientists or potential Data Scientists would probably appreciate covering those questions. I get very little satisfaction from using and applying formulas that I don't understand.
By MARC B
•Apr 4, 2024
Overall a good course, but misses out a lot of information, leaving the learner not fully understanding why certain concepts are relevant. Additionally, there are bugs in the quizzes, some of which have been highlighted in the forum years ago, but have not been amended.
By Chris B
•Jul 13, 2022
It's very hard without a textbook. Some of the videos were insufficient to mastery of the subject. I did fine but others may struggle worse than me.
By Adam G
•Jul 21, 2023
I definitely do not recommend this course. I took it as a refresher since I took linear algebra 5 years ago in college. Had it not been for little bit I remembered, and many youtube videos that I sought out, I would have gone through this entire course without understanding what anything actually meant. There is zero description of applications and barely even any definitions. The professor basically just gives you the recipe to get the solution to small arbitrary sample problems and that's it. Also, the moderators, TAs and professor for this course are completely inactive so nobody asking questions in the discussion board is getting help unless it's from another student. The professor actually doesn't even teach at CU Boulder at all anymore. I am considering pursuing an online MSCS at CU Boulder but this course is honestly making me rethink it. I really hope this is just an anomaly for the university.
By Enrique Z H
•Mar 14, 2024
The course is a very brief overview of some basic linear algebra concepts as well as a bunch of examples and how to solve them manually, however there's really no context as to why these concepts will be important in Data Science. The whole course can be completed in 8 hours. Exams/quizzes are extremely easy and doesn't do a good enough job of testing mastery of the knowledge presented during the course.
By zefs o
•Dec 22, 2023
not true answer