SH
Jun 8, 2023
This course is a good checkpoint to evaluate our understanding of the previous courses. The assignment had some challenges, but after revising the materials, it was successfully completed. Thank you.
LY
Feb 21, 2023
Lab works became more challenging and difficult throughout end of the course. Some tasks I've spent more than week just to find out the mistake. It is quite challenging yet fulfilling at the same time
By Linh T
•Dec 13, 2022
The course material is good. However, the program has some issue when I have time to learn. I have to come back several times to complete the project. Also the code to use IBM Watson Studio only allow limited numbers of hours to use. It discontinued me while I was at the last question in the final assignment. I couldn't continue to get the output for the graph
By Alex W
•May 29, 2024
The content is fine, but there were a large number of errors, inconsistencies, and typos which made the course difficult to work through. I would not recommend this course to others. It is based around an API which was not the most stable. At times I had bugs running the code which the course designers had written, due to the code being out of date.
By Martin B
•Aug 16, 2023
Not gonna lie, this one was rough compared to the others. Documentation in the hands-on labs was so-so and in the final assignment, I encountered numerous issues that seemed to be on the course's side, such as the notebook telling me that something was not installed when it is clearly being installed first thing when starting the assignment.
By Sarah L
•Jun 24, 2022
There were some typos in the material and overall I thought the material could have been better organized. The quizes also asked for specfic results from the labs rather than testing on knowledge of when/how to use certain tools. That said, it was okay, but of the 6th IBM courses I have taken so far, this was my least favorite.
By Joshua S
•May 24, 2021
Good real world application of ideas and situations used in the life of a data analyist. I just dont like how coursera / the instructors vaguely answer questions. I am still not totally sure how to complete all the codes and I feel like we are tested on things we haven't been taught in the class.
By Ahsan B
•Nov 25, 2024
Like the idea of reinforcing an important topic like web scraping but the length is small so it feels more like an assignment. Also a lot of guidance and hints are provided - the code can simply be copied from previous exercises. I prefer a project where new challenges are introduced.
By Oscar G
•Jan 20, 2024
Me parece que se tiene que organizar mejor el curso. Hay mucho material que no va para ningún lado, ya que es repetitivo. También vale la pena profundizar en la configuración de los entornos virtuales. Ahà queda un enorme vacÃo. BastarÃa con un link con una explicación detallada
By Doron A
•Aug 13, 2024
My main concern is the copy-pasty nature of the course, which I'm pretty sure doesn't reflect real life demands. Having done CS courses in university in the past, they felt much more challenging in terms of the problem solving required in order to complete tasks.
By Michel M
•Apr 28, 2022
It was a fun course, but I think that it could have more depth in other topics, it's primarily based in Web Scraping using Beautiful Soup.
Also it says that it is an intermediate course but I think that needs more content to be considered of that difficulty.
By Sir M
•Mar 2, 2022
The time recommended to complete each section in my opinion is way off I'd say in needs to be increased by 10 to 15 times to sufficiently understand the material. Its no way 30 minutes is enough when now being introduced to the majority of these topics
By Shubhashish B
•Mar 14, 2021
The content was very short and learning required lot of side research. This section is poorly designed, this is not how other coursera modules are designed. This seemed to be a rush job. Suggest adding more content and reduce the steep learning curve.
By Ralf L
•Sep 26, 2022
The course itself was okay, but the instructions don't seem to get the final project in Watson set up correctly. Based on posts in the forums, this has been an issue for quite some time... This caused me quite a bit of frustration.
By Joan M E
•Nov 20, 2021
Content is good but implementation is poor, course chat support is ineffective, and resources were broken. Note that IBM did offer a month of free class to make up for the tools being down, but it was last straw at that point.
By Albert K
•Apr 8, 2021
Some information like the links to the necessary data was hard to figure out, generally I learned a lot. I would recommend it anyone who wants to learn the harder way! It is intermediate, so beginners don't get headache
By Lora H
•Jan 13, 2025
The instructions for working on watson studio (creating an account and creating a project) are out of date, confusing, and need desperately to be revamped. Other than that couple of frustrating hours, I learned alot!
By Sam K
•Apr 19, 2021
Definitely helpful but feels shoehorned into the Professional Data Science Certificate and more instructional material and videos to understand reasoning behind the elements of Webscraping would be beneficial.
By Andy A
•Mar 19, 2025
mmmmm---okay...some of the code modules don't work..attention to detail every code module says 'you just finished your first coding' exercise down at the bottom. It's always the small details that I notice.
By yashaswini
•Jul 29, 2022
The course content is good and great for beginner level. But faced a lot of issue in accessing the IBM skill network because of which I missed deadlines in the assignment and delayed completing the course.
By Juris U
•Jul 26, 2024
I think that the final assignment of the course is too complicated, because the knowledge and programming skills after fifth course were not enough to solve the problems that were in the final assignment.
By Klemen V
•Mar 11, 2021
I already knew most topics. yfinance library was new to me and I fell it was not explained well. What it is, from where we get the data, is data updated? It was still fun doing analysis on real data.
By Roman S
•Feb 2, 2023
Lots of errors between the code taught and what works in Python today. Had to use a lot of resources outside the course to actually learn - which was useful - but took much longer than it needed.
By Md S S
•May 9, 2021
This course is not for absolute beginners. Some concepts are not briefly explained but they are needed to complete the assignment. If these things get better then this course can offer more.
By Sreeja G
•Nov 1, 2023
Instructions regarding the final project or projects (not even sure at this point) was EXTREMELY UNCLEAR and UNBELIEVABLY CONFUSING... unlike the two other IBM courses I've taken so far.
By tahlia b
•Aug 20, 2023
the labs are not working to submit work to be graded. Also yfinance is deprecated and no longer a viable instrument for getting stock information. VS code won't even load it anymore.
By saman e
•Sep 11, 2024
This project only includes the programming questions relevant to web scraping and API. You should also include the other programming questions relevant to Python course material