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About the Course

Important note: The second assignment in this course covers the topic of Graph Analysis in the Cloud, in which you will use Elastic MapReduce
and the Pig language to perform graph analysis over a moderately large dataset, about 600GB. In order to complete this assignment, you will
need to make use of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon has generously offered to provide up to $50 in free AWS credit to each learner in
this course to allow you to complete the assignment. Further details regarding the process of receiving this credit are available in the welcome
message for the course, as well as in the assignment itself. Please note that Amazon, University of Washington, and Coursera...
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By Anton S

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Dec 19, 2015

OK, but obvious for someone who has worked with data science.

By Angel S

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Jan 7, 2016

Nice course

By Ben K

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May 27, 2016

This course is not maintained. It's flat out exploitative to throw students at an AWS assignment without updated instructions and with outdated versions of pig scripts, etc. They're setting students up to hemorrhage money on AWS and possibly not get anything out of it. Under no circumstances should you take this course or even this specialization so long as this assignment is gating it.

By Robert H S J

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Feb 20, 2016

The lectures are excellent, but do not take this course if you are not already proficient in a graphing package, whether it's R, python, or something else much more sophisticated than Excel. Otherwise you will be faced with the painfully frustrating task of learning a package while trying to complete an assignment, all with a short deadline.

By Christine H

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Sep 17, 2016

I was very upset by the end of this course. The documentation was terrible. I ended up spending way to much on AWS even though I managed it the best I could Terminating instances. In general, I think this course would have been more fulfilling if the documentation was appropriate.

By David A

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Mar 13, 2017

The big assignment at the end contains instructions that are outdated and incomplete. Given the length of the course, it feels like you already need to know the material before even taking it.

By Yuan-Fen K

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Apr 25, 2016

Much of the assignment was out of date. The content was not related to big portion of the assignment. There was no way of getting clarification over the outdated assignment content.

By Yu I

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Jul 21, 2016

This course is really bad. The instruction is not enough to solve the programming assignment. The almost contents aren't related to communicating data science result.

By Lei Z

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Mar 22, 2017

The course does not has lecture slides that is better for students to understand.

By Sharon S

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Nov 29, 2020

I am trying to 'Unenroll' and the prompt isn't working. Nov 29, 2020.

By Dennis L

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Jul 18, 2023

Outdated course