Comprehensive but student-friendly introduction to common and popular open source tools for DS. Although tools are the most popular ones, the course relies too much on the IBM platforms, which kind of bind the students to the IBM products. Lectures in the first two weeks are a little bit dry.

Great course for getting knowledge of available open source tools for data science. Only thing is, it is sometimes hard to follow the videos since the IBM Watson Studio is updated since the course videos have been recorded. There can be update information after the videos for clarification.

I think this course should be forward. Now that I'm doing the 3rd one (DS Methodology), it is more useful to understand what data science means and the process that involves. It gives you the big picture while the Open Source Tools course it more specific and more technical, in my opinion.

Nice to give a headstart before furter exploring but some tools are never used throughout the course. For example apache spark. Besides if you are including the introduction here I think there is no need to put extra readings about how to obtain an IBM Watson account over and over again.

IBM Studio's layout has changed and the videos in Week 3 explain using the previous layout. This led to much confusion in the peer graded assignment. It would really help future participants of the course if the videos in Week 3 can be re-shot using the updated IBM studio site. Thanks!

i think it is better to have assignments which could give insight of using the technology. current assignments are barely touching the surface. Secondly, moving from AI experience to Watson studio has some visual options different which created an issue in finding some of the options.

I enjoyed the course and overall it satisfied my expectations. There were confusing instructions that were duplicated and sometimes not clear which disrupted how the learner should scaffold their knowledge. Otherwise, the content covered sufficed to fulfill the learning objectives.

It's a good introductory course, but the content needs to be updated esp. setting up IBM Watson Studio, though it is not so much of problem, you just need to explore a bit and you'll get it done in no time. I think that's the essence of online e-learning platforms, explore and learn!

Good material and organization. The scheduled times are useless because, generally, it takes longer to complete the tasks. Note that some organizations do not allow for the display of the software in the their computers. Hence, there is a need to use two computers simultaneously.

I think its has too much information, i would prefer a good introduction and then center on only a few tools. Also, i think it would be beter if the course leans towards learning and understanding than besides memorising. On the other hand, the labs were great, i really enjoy them.

While this course is a very good introduction and generates and overview for the tools i would like to have some more fundamental information about for example what is spark and where is used (examples of real life scenarios etc etc.)

Maybe it will be covered in the next courses.

I fully satisfied this course, but I had a problem with IBM Cloud which closed me an access to my project, because I had to stop each session and, as it turned out, it was explained at the IBM website (not at the course instructions). In this case, I had to miss a whole week.

not recommended for a fresh data science, because many thing that's really odd for a new on this focus course, but i still recommended it because it still usefull. we can learn the jupyter notebook's work and github too, and i think it's really a good point in this course.

There need to be more standardization with naming via IBM Watson (Data Science Experience vs Watson Studio...videos should reflect the current version). It is also unclear how after finishing the labs, whether or not the completion is then noted within the course itself.

There is not a lot of time spent discussing the why for these tools, just an introduction and some code we could copy and paste. As this is a new language for many I would like to know more about most utilized tools and an intro to what codes etc are most foundational.

Very insightful course, the only downfall was that for some of the instructions for the GitHub usage was extremely confusing. This could be due to versioning or the interface used. I referred to GitHub for a more informative instructional information to configure SSH.

This course is very well constructed and very informative. A very good course that provides systematic information to beginners. Some of the contents and explanations are a little dry, the instructors can consider making it more fun and easy to understand for learners.

Since there was no one to one interaction for major part with any instructor, it got little dizzy to understand the working of the tools but however, I completed the course and learned to use these tools, as it comes out, practice is the key.

Thanks Coursera for that.

Good course, but some of the videos need to be updated as they don't follow the current layout of IBM Watson. The one upside to that is it makes the student have to hunt for the links and having to do that makes the student retain the locations of links and options.

IBM Watson studio has been updated and the tutorials are not helpful enough to get started. It took me an hour to figure out how to use notebooks in Watson studio. It would be more helpful, if tutorials are also updated according to the updated IBM Watson studio.

A good overview of popular data science tools. In a couple of the videos, I would have liked there to be more original content, rather than just reading the text off of the websites. Still, the course gave me a quick idea of what is out there. Still lots to learn.

A lot of the information and navigation was outdated. IBM Watson Studio does not really return errors, so in case what you see deviates from the course material and you can't progress, there's no help specifically on Coursera. Otherwise the course is quite good.

The Zeppelin Notebook part was not impressive, could be cause of the instructor or either the notebook is built so. I have to practice Zeppelin a lot again to get a good feeling about it or even better, completely ditch Zeppelin for Jupyter or IBM Watson Studio

It was a good course. Great understanding received on Jupyter Notebooks. However please update your videos and learning material some of it is still outdated and confusing. Also RStudio IDE can be taught a lot better. I am still not very well oriented to that.

This course is pretty good but there are a lot of stuff that is not releveant anymore/outdated. For example Data Science Experience doesnt exist anymore and it was quite challenging to follow the videos when you dont have the same interface as shown in video.