Course materials are technically correct and somewhat useful for a student who already understands data analysis, python data structures, and numpy, but wants a guided "follow the teacher" / "teacher types then you type" tour through pandas syntax. For a student who does not already understand data analysis I would not recommend this course as it doesn't explain or give any examples of what a real dataframe is used for, what do the rows and columns (or series) typically represent. It would be great to see the instructor release a v2 of this class and show examples that are more realistic both in terms of the data and the types of operations on the data. Instead of using random numbers, you could have a tiny database of students and their progress towards learning pandas, for example. Instead of showing how to replace all strings with copies of themselves, you could show how to normalize numerical data or find outliers.

I do not recommend taking this type of course, take one and pass it, however after a few days I have tried to review the material, and my surprise is that it asks me to pay again to be able to review the material. Of course coursera gives me a small discount for having already paid it previously. It is very easy to download the videos and difficult to get hold of the material, but with ingenuity it is possible. Then I recommend uploading them to YouTube and keeping them private for when they want to consult (they avoid legal problems and can share with friends), then they can request a refund.

This course showed only a selection of Pandas functions, without linking them to what a person would actually do with them. I found the interface to be clunky, with difficult navigation in the student course work window. The instructor provides clear instructions, but no context. As a preliminary piece of work the "project" familiarizes you with the basic commands, but does not make you feel that you achieved anything, like a finished coded product let's say

The course is introduction to Pandas and is too easy even for beginners, however it does give you overview of simple methods in the library. I wish there has been an introduction WHY we use Pandas and what for, I feel like that part is missing. Also, I would appreciate some real-life examples of when these methods would be handy.

Overall, thanks for this course, it motivated me to learn more about Pandas Library!

Although the project provides a really detailed step by step guidance in basic operations with Pandas, to my opinion it lacks some theoretical background behind the mechanical repeating of the code lines

Project good for introduction to pandas, but it was way too easy. could have included more information on what else we could use pandas for and how else we can use the given functions

Too basic

good

VERY high level with little re: real life examples. "Challenges" were exact copies of previous examples.

Poor quality control between info on instructor's window vs. on active window.

I really cannot recommend this course. It shows a few things in regard to pandas but does not explain anything at all! The quiz at the end has at least two completely unrelated questions to pandas. The interactive part is repeating exactly what you are told without any additional benefit in my opinion.

Instructor doesn't explain anything, your role is just to retyping very simple examples. What's the difference between mentioned methods of creating series or data frames, what are those objects anyway? She doesn't tell nothing.

fuck cousrea im done with it fucking coursera really useless absolutly useless.