The course is very clear and fundamental. The instructions are very clear. However, I'm not happy with the assignment review process in coursera. Most of the time reviewers don't give ant feedback for why the points was reduced without which is it tough for the learner to understand his/her mistakes. Coursera should make feedback mandatory when the points are less than expected.

The course was good. The only suggestion for improvement are some instructions on how to use Twitter. The final assignment requires you to post something to Twitter. Having never used Twitter before it took me a while to work out what was needed. Also, some brief information on URL shorteners would be helpful (again part of the final assignment). Overall, a good course.

In this introduction to the basics of Data Visualization with Tableau, the instructors broke down the information systematically and in a clear and coherent way. I now have a familiarity with Tableau and the community resources it offers. As a graphic designer, I am fascinated by data visualization, and taking this course has left me eager to advance in my training.

I expected the course to focus on Tableau. Instead it presented a very brief introduction to Tableau that is insufficient to do anything useful with it, and then led us through a process to better understand the thought process of creating visualizations. I found the latter valuable, but still feel I was misled about the intent and content of the course.

This is a good course and specialization. It should be clear that this is NOT a course on Tableau. It's primarily on visualization principles, and uses Tableau as the software. It does teach you some Tableau, but not that much. If you just want to learn Tableau in-depth, look for other online courses or training, this isn't for learning Tableau.

Overall, this is a good course, but the first two weeks, it teaches the history of visualisation which I think is totally unnecessary for beginner-friendly, but would make it boring. I would recommend ppl taking this class play the video at 1.75 speed to quickly skip through the introductions and start from the practical part of the course.

Its a good course. But I believe that Week 4 should have come before introducing us to Tableau and visualizing data. This way we would have clearer contexts on about the "Big Story" and also on the WHO, WHAT and HOWs. It would have also helped us understand the various visualizations in Tableau while exploring the software.

The vids are starting to be a little outdated from the current software version. Also, in the final assignment, the instructions say, "Tell people what your viz is about in just a sentence or two at most." If you have to have two sentences, it should say that in the instructions. But overall I found the course useful.

Very basic but a reasonable introduction to Tableau. However, the version used in the demonstration videos not longer correlates to Tableau Public and there was also no explanation of some of the changes that were made to the visualization. Which certainly introduces you early to going and looking online for help.

The content was great, and progessed at a good pace. The downside is that I had to sign up for at least three different websites: one to get data for bus accidents in London, another for data.world and a third for Twitter. It would be better if the data and submissions were self-contained in the lecture series.

In general, the class was good - informative and a solid introduction. I understand that the purpose is not an in-depth "how to" on all things Tableau. But it still seemed to really rush through doing things there. I've used Tableau for more than a year and had a hard time following along at times.

It is a good course but more real life examples would be useful. It touches very little Tableau so maybe if someone is looking for fundamentals on how to make a visualization in Tableau this is not the right course because it goes more into theory of visualization rather than hands-on the tool.

Great introductory course, but could be improved by providing more of step-by-step instructions on navigating the Tableau and its menus, addressing some typical error messages the user might receive, etc. If you have a prior working knowledge of some Tableau, this course could be a refresher .

Good course overall. The assignment at the very end requested students to do some off-the-wall things. For example, it requested the students to upload a screenshot (and graded that screenshot), but provided no place to upload it! This kind of thing seems unprofessional, in my opinion.

Really good introduction to the world of Data Visualization. If you are expecting everything to be handed to you then you are in for a surprise. As with any graduate course fair amount of research and learning is expected from the students end and for me this made it even more fun

I liked the pacing, explanations and exercises. The only thing that could have been done better was perhaps a non insistence on posting to twitter about your project. I do not generally feel comfortable posting on social media myself and would prefer it if that step were optional.

Overall this course was a very good introduction to Tableau. The instructions for the first peer-graded assignment were VERY confusing, and almost counter-intuitive. Instructors were very pleasant to watch and listen to, and they do a good job of discussing real-world examples.

Enjoyed the course. This is a good starting point for engaging in the thought process behind how to present data and thoughts in a meaningful and catchy way. Would have liked to work with more samples of sets of data and arranging it into a viz, based on certain criteria.

It is a good start if you did not have any knowledge or experiences with Tableau. I would recommend the course since I truly learned fundamentals of Tableau. However, if you already have some basic knowledge or experiences, the course would be too simple for you to learn.

I enjoyed the course overall. The instructor was well-informed and provided clear instruction. I occasionally had difficulties with the Tableau software itself; its Help features were not always clear, which sometimes made it difficult to do the Data Viz activities.

The Course overall gave an extensive knowledge about basics of Data Visualization with Tableau. A suggestion would be to add exercise sample data sets and questions to answer for better understanding the practical knowledge of Tableau and it's numerous tools.

Great beginner course for Data Visualization and beginning concepts with Tableau! Note: this course is more focused on the whats and whys of data visualization - about 50% of this course is dedicated to that content. Using Tableau accounts for the other 50%

The course was straightforward, well paced, and helpful! I had a little trouble because some of the videos used versions of Tableau that are outdated now, but I'm not sure that can be helped. I liked the activities and felt that the assessments were fair.

Helped me understand the world of visualizations, the objectives and principal ideologies. Introduced me in detail to the data viz communities that engage in worthwhile discussions and feedback to make phenomenal visualizations on various topics/domains.

I loved this course and the way Desiree miss taught. I loved her enthusiasm and the way she conducted and conveyed herself. About the course, it is great as a starter but could be more informative and practice based like we did one dashboard. Thank you.