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About the Course

This course will introduce the learner to the basics of the python programming environment, including fundamental python programming techniques such as lambdas, reading and manipulating csv files, and the numpy library. The course will introduce data manipulation and cleaning techniques using the popular python pandas data science library and introduce the abstraction of the Series and DataFrame as the central data structures for data analysis, along with tutorials on how to use functions such as groupby, merge, and pivot tables effectively. By the end of this course, students will be able to take tabular data, clean it, manipulate it, and run basic inferential statistical analyses. This course should be taken before any of the other Applied Data Science with Python courses: Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python, Applied Machine Learning in Python, Applied Text Mining in Python, Applied Social Network Analysis in Python....

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CB

Feb 6, 2023

The assessments, quizzes, and course coverage are quite good. The main points are covered, although it does not cover everything. Additionally, it provides opportunities to learn and conduct research.

PK

May 9, 2020

The course had helped in understanding the concepts of NumPy and pandas. The assignments were so helpful to apply these concepts which provide an in-depth understanding of the Numpy as well as pandans

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By Benjamin S

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Jul 18, 2017

This was a really interesting course. The homeworks were very challenging and took longer than I anticipated, but because of this, I learned a lot. The only complaint I would say is that I posted a question on the forum and never received a response. I wish there was a better way to get questions answered.

By Tamás M

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Jul 7, 2022

I really enjoyed this course. The material was intereseting and for me as a beginner in data science topics seemed perfect. The assignments felt like real life tasks. The course structure kept me motivated and focused, good balance of videos, reading tasks, quizes and assignments. I liked the lecturers also.

By Indranil G

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May 5, 2018

I am an undergraduate Physics student who intends to delve into the remarkable field of Data Science and Machine learning. I think this course is an absolute beauty to beginners like me. I am glad that I found this course. The lectures are wonderfully delivered and each and every concept is nicely explained.

By Karina C F

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Jun 5, 2020

I really enjoyed this course. It did not only helped me to enhance my knowledge in python, it also improved my logical reasoning. This course has definitely aided me to develop my professional skills and broaden my knowledge about what a data scientist do. I just wish it had an upgraded version of Jupyter.

By VARUN V

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Nov 1, 2019

Very good course. The Instructor is very good at explaining the concepts. The content in the assignments was very well chosen and help in getting a better understanding of the concepts. The teaching assistant was also good at explaining. All in all a very good introductory course... definitely recommended!

By Javier F N V

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May 8, 2022

This is an excellent course to get introduced to pandas by completing practical assignments. Python and basic statistics are required. Assignments on weeks 3 and 4 take longer than three hours. Almost all the course is self-contained, some specific topics should be searched online to complete assignments.

By T.V.S T

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Jul 19, 2020

This is one of the best course for a beginner in data science. The assignments provided and the quality of information provided and the emphasis on self learning, making familiar us with websites like StackOverflow and GitHub and Geeks for geeks which are some of the top websites in this programming world

By KEE K X

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Jun 17, 2020

This course enables me to practice a lot on my programming skills. This course emphasise a lot on hands-on exercise and require abundant amount of self-learning over the network. The friends and teaching staff in the discussion forum are also friendly and the forum is so useful in solving the assignments.

By Shuyi Y

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Feb 25, 2017

Great course in hands-on experience with Python on data analytics. Before the class, I took a intro class to Python in my school covering basic commands, and thought this Coursera course would be kind of easy. But it turned out to be a very intensive one. I take more than 6 hours to complete the homework.

By Muhammad F N

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Jun 9, 2021

An Intermediate level course. you must have prior grip on python in order to expertly understand and employ this in to practice. Overall the course is Highly detailed with each and every thing elaborated and the disussion forum is very responsive. Loooking forward to use these skills in my future Career.

By Hung N

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Aug 14, 2020

One excellent class to start understand and practicing Python's numpy and pandas. The instruction and course structure are great. I really like the assignment because they gave me chance to use the code syntax/knowledge I just learned. If your job involve working with data, I highly recommend this class.

By Robert M

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Feb 24, 2019

This is a fantastic introduction to Data Science using Python. It's challenging enough and I love the way Jupyter has been integrated to help with assignments. I love the fact that they encourage using independent research to solve some of the problems as this is a critical skill for any data scientist.

By Pawan K P

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Apr 26, 2020

This Course is very challenging and assignments very tricky. It covers lot of thing regarding python. Just one suggestion I know this course was not for beginners however Please try to give more explanation in video. Discussion Forum was Fantastic. Solved many doubts and explain the program in detail.

By XL T

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Apr 20, 2020

very good course. It requires a lot of self learning, I think that is also the core of online education. However, the python assignment has some trivial problems. like in some cases, I already have the obvious right answer, but the system has judge it incorrectly, and just have no idea what's going on.

By Zeev S

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Jan 17, 2017

This is the best ever of all courses I took on MOOC. It was well prepared, Clear, fast paced, informational, challenging, and with appropriate exercises. Sometime I had to pool my hair to get things done and spent a lot of time, but it was fun and worthwhile. I thank Christopher Brooks and the team.

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By Manisana N

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Jun 23, 2021

Its Awesome To Take This Course.What I AM Interesting Is To Give US More Suitable Lecturers And Questions Based On The Course.Anyway,I Am Reallly Happy To Take The Course From One Of The Popular University (University Of Michigan).I AM Really Enjoying This Course .Lastly,Thanks To All The Professors.

By Avadhoot

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Apr 30, 2020

Excellent course to acquire skills in data manipulation and data wrangling. Excellent hands on experience with pandas and numpy functionalities. The assignments and the project are the main highlight of the course. High level of practical understanding is attained through working on these assignments

By daniel k

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Jun 30, 2017

As someone with a statistics background and a bit of programming experience, I found this course to be both challenging and rewarding. The videos with embedded example questions were great, and jupyter notebook homework assignments are so much better for learning the material than regular quizzes.

By Yang D

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Sep 10, 2019

The course is a bit challenge but finally I passed it. It's not like a beginner class that everyone could finish all the assignment very easily instead we have to finish them by ourself through the Stackflow or the Forums to get the informations we need so that we could solve all the problems.

By Md R H M

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Jun 26, 2020

Enjoyed the course. The assignments are quite challenging if you are a beginner. It tests your skills thoroughly about all the topics. I need to google a lot to find solutions to several pieces of problems. It helped me to learn new things from the documentation and stackflow in the meantime.

By Arturo B E G

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Apr 26, 2020

This course fulfills what it promises, it's more than just a Python programming course, but less than a full fledged data science/applied statistics course. The materials are well structured, the workload is adequate and the learning is enhanced by the optional readings. Strongly recommended.

By Rachel R

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May 22, 2020

Introduces the concepts and gives you the tools to learn more and gives you exercises that have you apply your learning. By the end I felt I really had a grasp of pandas and a good idea of where I would look further to grow my understanding of Data Science and the tools available in Python.

By Aniket N

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May 18, 2020

This course is a wonderful package for anyone starting in the field of Data Science. Mentors of the course were very active in the discussion forum which helped me quite a lot during the course of the assignment, which I believe were quite challenging but a lot of fun. Thanka a lot Coursera.

By ANIL H

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Apr 20, 2020

This is a very good introductory course with hands-on exercises and assignments. The course platform is very good and easy to adapt, nothing to worry about installing python or pandas, etc. Recommend it for the ones who knows python and wants to go into data science using Python and Pandas!!

By Jordi A

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Sep 1, 2019

For me it has been a very interesting course with really useful exercises. The course videos and notebooks were helpful alongside all the documentation available in the internet like pandas documentation and also stackoverflow. Now I am able to use pandas or find my way with it comfortably.