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Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Data Scientist’s Toolbox by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

In this course you will get an introduction to the main tools and ideas in the data scientist's toolbox. The course gives an overview of the data, questions, and tools that data analysts and data scientists work with. There are two components to this course. The first is a conceptual introduction to the ideas behind turning data into actionable knowledge. The second is a practical introduction to the tools that will be used in the program like version control, markdown, git, GitHub, R, and RStudio....
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Foundational tools

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Introductory course

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Top reviews

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Oct 8, 2020

Great course content and very much informative with the different options of learning either through text or video. A good introductory course to the Data Science: Foundations Using R Specialization.

NB

Jun 3, 2017

Nice Course. Basics are very well taught in this course.Thank you JHU and Coursera for this course. I have decided to donate 10% of my first salary to coursera once I am complete this and get intern.

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By jiminkang

Jul 28, 2021

An AI voice makes me hard to concentrate on lecture

By Zin W

Sep 27, 2019

It was helpful in getting to know R and R packages.

By Smit K

Mar 26, 2019

The entire course can be explained in 2-3 lectures.

By Alaa E D H

Jan 14, 2018

this part is not necessary, keep it optional please

By Juliana C

Sep 26, 2017

Very introductory course, give an overview of tools

By Renata G M

Jul 3, 2018

Good course, but lectures are sort of superficial.

By Rob L

Mar 23, 2018

Maybe a good basic intro course, but quite simple.

By Suhas K

Apr 25, 2019

I wish there were more exercises for the project.

By Vasilis Z

Jan 16, 2017

nothing special, no significant knowledge gained.

By James P

May 29, 2016

Later courses are better. This one is quite easy.

By Patrice E

Feb 24, 2016

Good but needs more assistance with the students.

By Dwi N R

Aug 31, 2020

This Course is great. but the speaker is too bad

By Xiaojun L

Mar 31, 2017

The git and GitHub section is not very clear....

By Rishi R

Mar 4, 2017

Too basic, not very informative. Waste of money.

By Vitor F M F

Jan 10, 2017

The course is too short and I didn't learn much.

By Rafael L

Feb 4, 2016

Quite basic, but good to set the needed programs

By Sagar T

Jun 21, 2016

Decent for a start. Focuses too much on Github.

By An Y

Feb 8, 2016

Thought it was too easy to be its own course :)

By Nel A G

Jun 9, 2020

A good high-level introduction to data science

By PIYUSH K

Feb 3, 2020

just the basic info about R,r stdio and github

By Henning

Jan 21, 2018

Pretty basic, could go a bit more into detail.

By Laurent R

Mar 4, 2019

Great course to begin with Rstudio and GitHub

By Tharindra P

Feb 11, 2020

Great course to start a data science career.

By Dinar M

Oct 19, 2018

To easy :) but good start for the beginners!

By Alex T

Aug 3, 2017

Too basic compared to courses that followed.