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About the Course

In order to be successful in Data Science, you need to be skilled with using tools that Data Science professionals employ as part of their jobs. This course teaches you about the popular tools in Data Science and how to use them. You will become familiar with the Data Scientist’s tool kit which includes: Libraries & Packages, Data Sets, Machine Learning Models, Kernels, as well as the various Open source, commercial, Big Data and Cloud-based tools. Work with Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab, RStudio IDE, Git, GitHub, and Watson Studio. You will understand what each tool is used for, what programming languages they can execute, their features and limitations. This course gives plenty of hands-on experience in order to develop skills for working with these Data Science Tools. With the tools hosted in the cloud on Skills Network Labs, you will be able to test each tool and follow instructions to run simple code in Python, R, or Scala. Towards the end the course, you will create a final project with a Jupyter Notebook. You will demonstrate your proficiency preparing a notebook, writing Markdown, and sharing your work with your peers....

Top reviews

DE

Aug 14, 2022

I love the detailing of every aspect of this course. The Labs, the free subscriptions and free trials provided by IBM Skills Network, everything has been so amazing. Thank you Coursera, thank you IBM.

MO

Apr 17, 2023

the best course for the beginner who is going to start his data science journey. This course tells you all options like tools, libraries, programming languages, etc. Highly recommended for beginners.

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By Bhusita S

Jan 25, 2021

The lesson for Week 1 is hard to keep concentrating and the way to simplify some contents is not clear for beginner who has no background knowledge like me but can't deny that this course is benefit for one who wanna pursue in this career.

By jesus m

Feb 19, 2023

some of the content and labs were not completele clear, specially around git.

some of the questions' answers were not completely covered in the material.

some of the content went unnecesarily deep when all we were looking at was the tools

By Ange D

Jan 31, 2023

Comprehensive information. However, the ability to use IBM Watson Studio and IBM Cloud Pak for Data for free as part of the course is completely broken. You can still complete the course, but you can't do the exercises in Watson Studio.

By Ese O

Sep 16, 2019

The course needs to be updated with instructions on how to use the current IBM Watson Studio , it took a lot to navigate around the tool and figure how things work. Besides the outdated lecture materials, this was an insightful course.

By Anoop K

Jul 19, 2020

Few of the videos and reading material do not give the complete information of what all are the pre-requisites. For some one who is not from programming domain will not know about such pre-requisites. Otherwise well developed courses.

By Nilanjana M

Aug 1, 2019

I felt the Jupyter notebook and Markdown portion was more highlighted than the others. Could have been made much more better, but I am grateful for even the little that I learnt. I would sincerely like to thank the course instructors.

By Michael S

Apr 20, 2023

Very clear explanations

Though I feel assets used in tutorials must be provided in order to have step by step and success rate.

I found myself getting stuck when uploading my own datasets and the jupyter notebooks returned with errors.

By Sixto M

Jan 27, 2022

Some videos need to be polished a little better to be more understandable. Specially the ones where people walk you through coding and using tools: they go a little bit too fast for people like me who know nothing about this subject.

By Pulkit k

Jun 25, 2019

This course is very beneficial for beginners. As the instructor teach you how to use Data science tool such as Jupyter Notebook, Zeepline Notebook, R Studio etc.

One thing i fill that the teaching sense is not that good for beginners.

By Esteve N L

Feb 28, 2023

Interesting but sometimes shows lots and lots of tools that you won't been using during the course. Fewer tools taught in a more significant way like doing labs would be great. It does a good job in making you use Jupyter notebooks.

By Alvaro M M

Dec 6, 2021

Esta muy bien pero los estudiantes de coursera no tenemos acceso al IBM SPSS version para estudiantes, Coursera es una empresa potente y se que puede conseguirlo. Agraqdeceria que si lo consiguiesen ame avisen para poder utilizarlo.

By Miguel A

Mar 23, 2023

Very good course, if you are hoping to use the IBM set tools, but stills it gives you a perspective of whtat to expect whereas using this kind of tools, although you need to know a little bit of programmig to fully aptreciate it,

By Amarpreet D

Jul 7, 2021

There is a lot to learn here, and some parts of it are very information dense. I am just very glad that we are able to study this at our own pace.

Overall, I am happy with this course and look forward to the starting the next one!

By Alexandru S

Apr 11, 2019

An informative course, which shows some of the basics for Python, R Studio and more.

BUT, the week 3 videos are a disaster, as the change to Watson Studio has not be reflected in the current videos, generating lots of frustration.

By Marcello S

Aug 21, 2019

Nice and good course. The only thing taht could be better is the alignment of the video's of Data Experience of IBM with the current IBM Watson environment. There are some major differences. But nevertheless very good training.

By Luyi L

Dec 19, 2021

This course has really high quality. I gained a sense of what data scientists use in their daily life. But it is a little confusing when knowing about a lot of tools for the first time. It takes time to get familiar with them.

By Pedro P

Jun 10, 2020

Some parts of this course could be better organized to help learners. For example, the GitHub exercise in terminal should have previous concepts about using terminal in Linux, like how to create a directory or how to navigate.

By Damon L

Feb 16, 2021

Useful course with programs I wasn't familiar with. Class was laid out nicely for me to follow along and pass the assignments. Some of the interface was a little outdated compared to the slide show. Other than that well done.

By Marnilo C

Apr 24, 2019

I found it to be a bit confusing when the course materials for older versions of the tools were used to teach the current versions of the tools. There were differences beyond just the name (Data Science Experience vs Watson).

By Castelnau A

Nov 2, 2020

Difficulties to finish the last two without the ability to create an account on IBM Cloud, nevertheless remains a good introduction about tools for data science (I imagine it's a excellent one if you can create the account).

By Gábor T

Mar 9, 2020

Useful course to learn the basics, but some upgrade would be great. Some videos are old and the user interface of the platforms has changed. That makes following the videos complicated and the learning process less enjoying.

By JAVIER A R C

Jan 12, 2022

This course covers the most useful and relevant tools and libraries for Data Science, helping newcomers to learn fast and well guided. However, the trial that IBM offers at the end of its 3rd Section is no longer available.

By Rekha S

Feb 13, 2021

It was a challenging course with some heavy usage of terminology. It took a little while to get my feet wet but the Lab sessions and reviewing content/videos helped and I was able to complete all my assignments succesfully.

By Nícolas A d C M

Jan 23, 2019

As I am used to emacs as my go-to software for programming, given it's intense extensibility, I will keep using it instead of the other tools.

In any way, it was great to know more tools oriented torwards group programming.

By Mohd S B S H

Nov 1, 2021

Some of the IBM tool videos (Data Refinery in particular) is kind of hard to follow, it was like jumping into the deep end of the pool. Could've been better is it was a bit slower and had a lab session to go along with it.