PB
Dec 23, 2022
Very good and useful practice of SQL. The JOIN party is pretty hardcore so I definitely couldn't master it but got enough of an understanding where I could learn quickly with some on the job training.
TK
Jan 6, 2022
An excellent course for learning analysis techniques using Spreadsheets and SQL. Recommended for all engineering and data science students as well as for those managing businesses and human resource.
By Mantas S
•Aug 18, 2023
more mistakes compared to other courses and sometimes hard to follow.
By John L
•Dec 4, 2023
Too much new information with little time given to learn adequately
By Dee W
•Jun 1, 2022
my name is still incorrect, I have asked for this to be fixed
By Alessandro P
•Aug 28, 2024
This course is below the average of all the other courses.
By 于軒儒
•Mar 18, 2022
Confusing as everyone said in the discussion forum.
By Marcos D
•Dec 21, 2022
The instructor was difficult to follow
By rakan a
•Jan 31, 2024
need more explanation and not clear
By Ditsaphong T
•Nov 29, 2023
The teaching speed is too fast.
By Candice C
•Apr 28, 2022
why conflating excel with sql?
By Mokolade O
•Mar 1, 2023
the tutor didn’t explain well
By Matthew G
•Jun 28, 2023
Very difficult to follow
By Daniel W
•Aug 1, 2023
change the instructor.
By Sujata P
•Mar 3, 2022
Need better trainer
By Kari B
•Aug 15, 2023
too little of sql
By Joseph N C M
•Feb 7, 2023
By far the les
By PIETER I
•Jul 19, 2024
no cert
By Mohit U
•Jan 29, 2022
Nice!
By Xavier B
•Jul 5, 2024
First of all I want to emphasize the fact that I am not a hater, troll or anything like that. In terms of Data Analysis, this course is NOT CURRENT -Most of the actions in spreadsheet are out of date since the software update, NOT CORRECT -The files have errors that don't permit them to be loaded in SQL, -The information and steps provided are not correct -There is no comment and description about the actions/shortcuts performed(I guess debutants are supposed to know that then), -We need to spend as much time learning than correcting the files for them to actually work properly NOT ORGANIZED -We jump from writing simple queries in the previous course(s) to writing long and advanced queries with no prior mention of their effects, -We go from proctors explaining SLOWLY and PROGRESSIVELY line by line of each query to writing 10+ lines queries without precise explanation, -We have incredibly long readings documents without any prior video explanation or EXEMPLES of what they are use for, -We jump from readings to hands on practice without any surrounding context, -No glossary for the first 2 modules -The content of modules is ridiculously disparate (Module 4 have 5 chapters!!!!! and all very technical) -The increase in complexity is not well balanced and not well explained -Was there some type of competition with the proctor for her to talk as fast as possible while explaining(and there was very little explanation)It's ridiculously comical. The lack of organization makes this course painfully difficult to follow. This course is completely at the opposite of the previous courses which I genuinely loved all the activities and how they are organized, from the short explanation videos, readings, hands on practice and exercises, they were SMOOTH and STRAIGHTFORWARD. This course, which seems like one of the main important, is very disappointing and should be updated and reorganized. I personally gave up on following the steps-by-steps activities in this course because of spending so much time looking for the correct file, trying to figure out how to correct it etc. PS: why do we have to download a different file for each single activity? Can't we download one file per module and work on the same file instead of having so many file??? Thank god I have a strong background in coding languages and Python because if I was really a debutant, I would have struggled badly.
By Kendyl R
•Aug 31, 2023
This is genuinely the most confusing lesson I could imagine with almost no explanation from the course instructor. I am specifically referring to the sections on aggregate functions and subqueries (week 3), though this entire sections has been rough and confusing.
This is very complicated coding for a beginner (this course's target demographic) and it is breezed by with nowhere near enough explanation as to what these queries accomplish, how and when to use them, and how to format these queries. I took a different SQL coding course before this course and this lesson has confused queries and concepts that I had decent comprehension of before taking this lesson.
On top of all of that, BigQuery uses different dialect and formatting than any of the other SQL programs and servers that I have used. It also is very buggy and doesn't operate as indicated by the weekly lessons. Oftentimes the weekly assignments' instructions are outdated and need addendums to each step of the instructions, further confusing the concepts.
By Zain E
•Sep 1, 2021
The instructor seems to be out of pace, especially at week 4.
Especially when it comes to SQL, at the earlier weeks, she adds too many things that weren't mensioned before which caused me confusion and lead me to look up every previous material in the course which resulted in me wasting my time.
It was good for me, cause i looked everything up on my own. But it wasn't good for the course experience i.e having to put into account that the instructor might introduce things unexplained and are also complex.
I might sound like being irrational and over inflating things but compared to the "prepare" and "process" courses in this series, this one is a big leap backwards when it comes to the instructor and the way things ,that are to be given to the student, are ordered.
By Patrick C
•Apr 19, 2022
The lecturer was quick, not thorough with her explanations, and generally, felt like she just wanted to rush through the topic. The examples she used in her explanations a majority of the time did not work, which I then had to look at the discussion forum to find solutions for. Overall, I found the other courses to be done quiet well, It was concise, explanations were thorough and the examples were spot on, however, with this course, I was very disappointed. I had to do most of my own research for the topics so I could learn on my own. The lecturer did not help.
By Philipp N
•Sep 8, 2024
So far, this was by far the worst course in this specialisation program, it's incoherent, most of the info is already covered in the preceding courses, the order of lections within the course doesn't make sense (functionalities are used before explanation), every example/exercise used a new data set (for no apparent reason) and many of the quiz questions ultimately relied on semantics. I thoroughly did not enjoy this course and considered dropping the entire specialisation program because of this.
By mohamed g
•Jun 9, 2023
Instructor very fast and she doesn't give detailed explanations to what she is solving which really demotivate me and when I checked many also say same thing on our discussion area and there is no actual responses from your side all they say (thank you for your feedback) is that all so actually we didn't feel any steps taken maybe your company actually is taking steps in this regards but we will never know if nobody tell us which in return actually give us not good image of coursera
By Jason P
•Oct 7, 2021
did not care for the instructor at all. most of it was probably tied to the fact that several times incorrect codes were given and it would take multiple hours to figure out what actually needed to be put down. Made several complaints about this in reports and never heard back. Even found a group of people who were searching out the answers in stackoverflow and found some. there were entire missing lines in the SQL code. please review your Bigquery codes for this unit.
By Jake H
•Jan 11, 2023
Terrible. The instructor does this way too fast and provides the most excruciatingly confusing examples. I tried accessing public datasets from bigquery and it kept saying "url not found". So i tried contacting Google Cloud support, which was literally impossible. I actually think I would have somehow learned more if I had not taken this course at all. This made me want to completely stop trying with the professional certificate and now I honestly want a refund.