Nice but quizzes and assignments can be made harder

Finest Course from cloudera for beginners

It is good but mostly theoratical

A fine course, it is.

Good refresher

Very good

great!!

great

good

****

Quite basic. I understand that the course is aimed to for everyone, including those without a programmign background. But I feel this course could have been compressed into fewer weeks, and the contents of Course 2 and 3 can be spread earlier in this course.

Warning: Anyone thinking of doing the Specialization, consider the Honours track with pinch of salt. Even though you get an Honours banner for the individual courses, for some twisted/lazy logic the final Speclalization certificate doesn't show the Honours banner. Might not be a big deal to some, but still a bit of a let down. Especially when you paid for the subscription.

it's like a conference for the introfduction of SQL, not at course level

Need more Exercise and parctice on theory

Много теории и мало практики.

it is very nice to learn

Not an entirely useless course, as you do learn about concepts like structured vs unstructured data, different storage options for big data, etc. However, the videos & readings take far too long explaining these subjects & could have conveyed the information in half the time. The other major thing to note is that this is a very old course, something not mentioned by Coursera. The material dates from late 2018 based on what the instructor says in the videos. While it does deal with the general area of big data, a large part of the course is basically an advertisement for Cloudera software solutions, as they existed in late 2018, again something not made clear in the description. Finally, users should note that this course uses peer review grading for the final project. The project itself tests very little of the material from the course, while peer reviews mean that you're dependent on enough people doing the course at the same time, or being prepared to review you later. The quality of reviewing from your peers, will of course vary greatly, though there is a pre-set structure to follow.

No real hands-on training

As with many other courses on this platform, the content taught in the instructional materials seems loosely connected to the questions and the quizzes. Some things are throughly explained, others are just brushed over- at the instructor's will, it seems. Not to mention that the course asisstant's help was ... shall we say... less than helpful.

I do not recommend this course.

The quality is so poor and full of repetitions. The whole course can be fit into less than half an hour. No hands-on practice. Waste of time!

Having peer graded assignments is a waste of everyone's time.