a lot of 'monkey-see monkey-do'

The course is pretty outdated

Materials are not up to date

boring and not very helpful

Poorly taught. Worst course

update the videos please...

Very boring teaching style

very less coding exercise

Outdated and disorganised.

Not so beginner friendly.

the guidance is unclear

not that clear for new.

only basic information

Too many IBM tools...

Mainly self-promotion

too high syllabus

Outdated slides.

Outdated

Outdated

Too easy

If this course exemplifies how IBM does business, I do not wonder, if they would go out of business soon.

If you are interested in Data Science and Data Analytics, but just starting out, the Google Certificate Program on Coursera is a better fit for you! The actual insights into Data Science as a Science here is quite low compared to the length of the course. You can see that the course was designed by someone who is a Data Science practitioner but has no idea how to conceptualize an online-learning-format...

The content of this course, in part, is quite interesting. However, it is by no means a beginner-course and gives you hours and hours of highly software-specific content which, if you do not use or need the software which is featured, does not add any value to your path!

The graded tasks made it unbearable for me to follow the Course. They require you to access third-party websites where you have to manually login, create an account, verify it at least 3 times (with your credit-card as well, which did not work for me, so I was unable to continue, if I wanted to have the certification at the end)... Please review your strategy.

It was a lot of overview. I honestly felt like I only learned definitions and what IBM tools look like and didn't get to dive into any real projects or examples. I was very disappointed in the limited opportunities to do anything real with the hands-on projects. They were too simple, like how to create a Jupyter Notebook, or play around with nodes. When I tried to code alongside some of the instructors on the optional GitHub sections, I didn't have access to their repositories or data, so I couldn't really do anything. In other videos the programmer completely skipped over important steps as if we had used the product before, or failed to provide any context so we didn't know what the goal was - so it was just some random exercise that barely made sense and wasn't much help to me for applying it to other real world situations. I don't feel anymore prepared to use these tools, and I got a 100% on every project and exam. I was expecting a whole lot more. I hope the next courses are better and I actually get to learn how to do something worthwhile.

The second module of this course appears to be poorly designed, with little effort put into pedagogy. The material bombards learners with a plethora of technical names and terminologies without providing adequate explanations. As a result, students are only taught what to do, but not why they are doing it. As a learner, I found myself simply following instructions to click here and there without understanding the purpose behind my actions.

Despite the course's introductory claim that no coding or programming experience is necessary, I feel that I haven't gained any significant knowledge from this module. I've only memorized a list of tools and programming terms, without grasping their meanings or applications. It seems that the course designer assumed that learners already have some familiarity with the subject matter, which is not the case.

Furthermore, the lessons themselves are delivered in a tedious and confusing manner that fails to engage students. Overall, this module leaves much to be desired in terms of its instructional effectiveness.

This course is not practical at all--it's a detailed overview of concepts that, for beginners, are meaningless until you begin working within those constructs. Furthermore, the online IDE is not functional--it will not load and indicates it is under maintenance or gives an error code. So, in order to complete the practicals of this course, you have to set up your own environment, for which there are no instructions. Fortunately, my husband is a sr. software developer and was able to help me troubleshoot setting up Rstudio, wherein the links, libraries, and other resources are all out of date.

Furthermore, I'm now 5 weeks into this program and have not learned anything. Fortunately, I know I am interested in programming and data science already after working in other resources (e.g. Data Quest) that provide actual hands on education, rather than a computerized voice reading script that contains erroneous details with no immediate practical application.

Such a disappointment. I expect more from IBM.

There are issues with the final exam preventing people (including myself) from passing. These issues have been raised going as far back as a month without any moderator intervention (from what can be seen on the forum). Despite there being 20 moderators to this course, there appears to be just 1 active moderator and they havent responded to this issue. There is no way of contacting staff to raise this as an issue to be fixed except to raise it on the forum. In doing so, you break the Coursera Honour Code (as Ive just discovered). Im currently unable to complete this course due to this issue and Im hoping this one star review brings the matter to the attention of the staff responsible for the course.