JR
Dec 4, 2020
Excellent course to get started with text mining and NLP with Python. The course goes over the most essential elements involved with dealing with free text. Definitely worth the time I spent on it.
CC
Aug 26, 2017
Quite challenging but also quite a sense of accomplishment when you finish the course. I learned a lot and think this was the course I preferred of the entire specialization. I highly recommend it!
By Alexandros B
•Oct 4, 2017
poor organization of the lesson and many many mistakes during assignments
By Alex M
•Aug 27, 2017
Instructors did a poor job of preparing students for the assignments.
By Ji S
•Apr 15, 2018
Too coarse, quality worse than other courses in this specialization.
By Abhishek J
•Oct 10, 2020
it was so basic ! i was expecting some more detailed course on nlp
By Steven P
•Feb 19, 2021
Very basic, but clear - just lacks the depth i was expecting
By L C
•Nov 22, 2020
I found the course quite dry and hated the auto grader...
By Todd B
•Apr 5, 2024
Assignments are ambiguous, could be cleaned up
By naive666
•Jun 29, 2019
Far from expectation, feel upset
By Rodrigo L
•Oct 1, 2021
very poor course
By christopher h
•Nov 18, 2017
Compared to other courses in the Applied Machine Learning focus, this is so far the worst. The content and quality are poor. The lecturer is too slow and fails to prepare the student for the assignments. First week is very basic and ends with an assignment in regex. There's plenty of regex resources out there. 2nd week moves forward but finalizes in an assignment that involves concepts not covered in the lecture (ngrams). Weeks 3 and 4 contain too many errors in the lecture and autograder (use of AUC, finding minimum of a sparse array). UofM should rebuild this course.
By Tomás M
•Dec 2, 2022
The course is just an absolute random collection of videos poorly explained, where no one is explaining why things are done in a particular way, with a poorly selected somewhat random APIs in NLP.
Very little practice and the assignments have basically nothing to do with what was "explained" in the videos. Plus, the discussion forum is absolutely full of dust and no one replies for the last 4 years.
It is really such a pitty that Michigan doesn't put any effort in keeping this up, but still offers something that is completely useless for students.
By Cande P
•Dec 2, 2022
This course is not meant for LEARNING Text Mining, Assignments do not address contents of the lectures, many instructions are not clear, feedback on assignments is very scarse, si one does not know where they are making a mistake, and Discussion Forums HAVE NOT BEEN RESPONDED IN OVER 4 YEARS. It is a shame that coursera leaves some courses from certain universities to just sit there with no one answering forums or aiding students' learning process.
By Maximilian W
•Feb 14, 2020
Serious sub-par course in the specialisation. The lecturer is good, but sadly the assignments are terrible. Thus the reinforcement - and reliability to problem solving - of the content is poor.
Given the high standard of the first three modules in this specialisation, this is really a shame. I would urge learners to consider whether there is much point in doing this course (other than to get the specialisation completed).
By Manuele K P
•Oct 17, 2023
Videos are great, but assignments are stupid. Evaluation (grading) didn't work properly, and pedagogically, assignments do not evaluate topics related to the videos. Worst, mentors refuse to admit that there is a huge problem in their evaluation system. It's a pity, since the videos are nice.
By Rafi N
•Nov 29, 2022
the worst course I had.
The assigments are really bad.
They are not teach you how to do text mining . You spent hours for nothing
most of the studet take the answers from the web (google the name of the course)