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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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HC

May 3, 2018

It's very useful specially for new learner because it only dives into the part of python that data science need. I strongly recommend to anyone even if you don't have experience in programming before.

YH

Sep 28, 2021

This is the practical course.There is some concepts and assignments like: pandas, data-frame, merge and time. The asg 3 and asg4 are difficult but I think that it's very useful and improve my ability.

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By Stefan

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Jan 27, 2017

Good course, if a bit fast paced, expect a great deal of searching through documentation and stackoverflow, but it is to be expected from an intermediate level course.

By Muhammad E

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Jul 29, 2020

as advertised this is not an introductory course , you need to know a little about python pandas and numpy before taking this but overall it's nice challenging course

By Marina L

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Feb 28, 2017

A bit short, but good info. I wish you got access to an optimal code for each of the assignments once you submit yours and pass, so you could see how you can improve.

By Muhammad A

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Jun 19, 2020

Too much content covered in a video at very fast pace. I am comfortable with little long videos with more details on the topic and I think that can enhance learning.

By Haijian H

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May 8, 2020

The assignments are challenging and thus rewarding after hard work.

More explanation effort can be invested during the lecture would make the course perfect, I think.

By Robin K

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Apr 27, 2020

A very useful course for getting to know Pandas and its application in data science. Bit of advice: use the online version of the notepad to avoid autograder issues!

By Christian L

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Oct 18, 2018

I dont put the biggest mark because sometimes you have spend a lot of time trying to resolver a problem with and csv file and it is something related with format....

By Braza

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Jan 6, 2020

This was a great course. But I would advice programming newbies to really be comfortable with problem solving and Python programming before going through it.

Cheers

By N. K

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Oct 26, 2019

The data could be made available. That available in the links have been updated and the code does not apply to the dimension of dataframe mentioned in the notebook.

By Sanjay V

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Nov 1, 2020

Good course. makes you work, but the learning was worth it , especially for someone like me who has ben struggling to pick up python though I am fairly good at R.

By Siddique Z A

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Sep 15, 2020

Nice and very much informative session on Data science using python where we learns a lot and also completed assignments which is really a tough level assignments.

By Chimobi O

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Dec 10, 2019

it's a nice course, more project based than theoretical, challenging assignments and good instructors. it spurs you to do a lot of research and individual learning

By Michel H

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Nov 28, 2019

Es un buen curso. Me parecío demasiado rápido el teórico y demasiado escueto. No me gustó que en los assignments hubiera que buscar tanto dato en fuentes externas.

By Akhil K

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Jul 23, 2019

if anyone want to learn data science through practical approach then with no second thought enrol to this course .

thanks to cousera for providing me financial aid.

By Kaya Ö

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Apr 15, 2019

Most of the work is on your shoulders, I think it needs more practice session on pandas. Wes McKinney's book are strongly recommended for help through the course.

By Prabhsimar S

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Oct 14, 2017

It took a lot of self-study, practice and much more hard work than expected at start of course. But at the same time it increased my knowledge manifold. Worth it!

By Kapil C

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Aug 11, 2017

The course structure was very good! Assignments were exciting although a one or two questions were not so clear. But the discussion forum was awesome and helpful!

By Timothy O

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Apr 30, 2017

Great course! Some of the homework questions seemed a little ambiguous but I was able to find clarification in the course discussion. All in all I learned a lot.

By afsane h

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Mar 10, 2021

This course is wonderful! I think its a good practice for those having some experience with python's pandas and numpy library, to make their a solid foundation.

By Christopher S

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Jan 23, 2021

I would say an advanced level of python understanding is required. The assignments are very difficult however you do learn a lot about python and it's libraries.

By VIRAJ V P

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May 29, 2020

This is my first online course the course has indeed helped me to master data science and the assignments are quite good based on self learing more

Thank you...!

By Zhuang Q

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Nov 6, 2019

This course taught me a lot about pandas. However, the difficulty of the assignment didn't match the content of the lecture. It is too difficult for a new comer.

By morten o j

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Feb 10, 2018

Steep intro, can be tricky to understand, the requested format of the responses. The autograder is not always verbose enough...

Good learning experience otherwise

By Prof. K A K

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Oct 18, 2017

Good course - fast paced and needs a lot of self learning from the web to get through the challenging assignments. Be prepared to spend good time on this course.