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About the Course

This mini-course is intended to for you to demonstrate foundational Python skills for working with data. This course primarily involves completing a project in which you will assume the role of a Data Scientist or a Data Analyst and be provided with a real-world data set and a real-world inspired scenario to identify patterns and trends. You will perform specific data science and data analytics tasks such as extracting data, web scraping, visualizing data and creating a dashboard. This project will showcase your proficiency with Python and using libraries such as Pandas and Beautiful Soup within a Jupyter Notebook. Upon completion you will have an impressive project to add to your job portfolio. PRE-REQUISITE: **Python for Data Science, AI and Development** course from IBM is a pre-requisite for this project course. Please ensure that before taking this course you have either completed the Python for Data Science, AI and Development course from IBM or have equivalent proficiency in working with Python and data. NOTE: This course is not intended to teach you Python and does not have too much instructional content. It is intended for you to apply prior Python knowledge....

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LY

Feb 20, 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

DM

Feb 27, 2022

Had a few issues with my IBM Cloud account and adding the Jupyter notebook but the help\response was great so was resolved quickly.

Great material that can defintely be applied to work experiences.

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By Leonard D

Aug 2, 2022

Good content, but the exercises can hardly be performed due to technical issues.

By Mike L

Mar 17, 2023

This is the worst course of this IBM certificate so far. This course is terrible and need a complete overhaul.

There are no videos, the labs do not explain half of the content and I had to Google most of the solutions, which wasted a few weeks and my money to pay for Coursera.

The labs also contain incorrect links that are needed to pull data from wensite when webscraping. The labs are even out of date, so the libraries that are pre-coded to install at the beginning don't cover the code needed to complete the lab... which is part of the graded assignment.

Also, there has not been any explanation of how to run Python in your terminal or in an interpreter, so the course leaves out any practical application as is strictly theoretical.

There are also spelling mistake throughout and you must use the Discussion Forums to figure out why the labs are broken.

By samantha d

Apr 12, 2021

I found this course very frustrating. I felt like they didn't really explain how to do anything and that you really needed to have more background in Python to understand how to do it. I honestly had to go back and make sure that I didn't miss a course that would've set me up for this course. I managed to get through the final assignment but I didn't learn anything and wouldn't be able to duplicate anything I did. This course really made me re-think about pursuing this whole area of study since I had such a frustrating time with this. This course definitely needs more tutorials with hands-on experience; something besides things like opening a Watson Studio account.

By Amanda E

Mar 20, 2021

HORRIBLE course. You basically already need to be at an intermediate level with python and html to know how to do anything. The video instruction has absolutely nothing to do with what they actually expect you to be able to perform in the hands-on labs and final assignment. Which makes no sense sense the ibm data science certificate program is supposed to be for beginners. All in all I learned absolutely nothing, not even outside sources helped. If you really want to learn web scraping I recommend taking an entirely separate course from this.

By Erin M F

Feb 17, 2023

I feel the content was not taught well at all. Many people are having difficulties with the final project which includes questions that were marked as "optional" learning material. Also, the code given to complete some of the components of the final project does not always want to work making the whole project not work.

By Olivier H

Apr 11, 2021

This is by far the worst course they offer in this certificate... for some reason all the other courses were hard, but doable. This one has minimal information to help you complete either the exercises or the quizzes. You guys will have to do better because it literally makes me want to stop this course

By Hira L

Mar 23, 2021

Not sure why this course was placed 5th in the IBM Data Analyst/Data Scientist Specialization. I was only able to complete it once I studied "Data Analysis with Python". The instructions/lessons were very vague and felt insufficient to complete the final assignment.

By Stephanie W

Apr 15, 2021

Up until this class I thought the content was very well organized. one of the most frustrating things about this project is that some of the concepts it covers are introduced in the next class. there is a serious issue with the sequencing of course material.

By Daniel L

Mar 23, 2021

Feels like the class isn't done yet...no real instruction is given. Wouldn't mind if this was a free resource perhaps but if I am paying to take this I would at least expect some semblance of organization.

By Sharif A H

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.

By Jatin P

Feb 24, 2021

It is a very nice experience when you complete something new and interesting topics.

Python projects are always good this course is all about the analysis of stock data which itself an interesting one.

By David M

Feb 28, 2022

Had a few issues with my IBM Cloud account and adding the Jupyter notebook but the help\response was great so was resolved quickly.

Great material that can defintely be applied to work experiences.

By Sri D K

Oct 6, 2021

Best course so far, under the IBM Data Science professional certificate program. It is heavy on the practical side, which is a good thing as it gives the person a more hands-on experience.

By oon a

Mar 7, 2021

this course has been renewed. now with more content (videos also readings), it is a great course to learn about web scraping. valuable for getting datasets.

By Christian H

Feb 27, 2021

Excellent course for data science, but coding experience is necessary.

By vignaux

Feb 22, 2021

Perfect to practice python, pandas, etc.

Great work

By Anandhu H

Jun 1, 2021

Great course with a hands on project in the end

By Deleted A

Feb 17, 2021

Hard but worthy

By John G

Mar 16, 2021

It's not as bad as many people wrote. It was challenging for me as a beginner to python, but it was possible to do if you took notes and reviewed the previous labs. I like that it included work that a financial analyst might have to do. What I didn't like was that in the final project, it wasn't completely clear what to take screen shots of (be sure to take them of ALL the graphs) and that a couple of the tasks were the same. I can't say that I know how to program in Python after this project, but I certainly learned a lot.

By Phạm N M H

May 31, 2021

Compare to the 4 previous courses in DS professional certificate, I'll say this course will worth your time, although the IBM stuff kinda piss me off. Through this course, you will understand what and how to crawl data from a web page - something you will usually hear like (crawl data from facebook, twitter,...etc) and you can play around with the notebook to get used to it and understand how to crawl data in the most efficiently way and a little bit of visualization

By Dale W

Mar 3, 2022

Instructions on web scraping and use of python libraries to extract data was excellent. Usage of IBM Cloud is a nightmare, spent a good few hours trying to sort out and created multiple accounts. I even tried to load my credit card a couple of times to get it working but it wasn't accepted. Luckily it's possible to complete without it. Final assignment has an incorrect url in Question 4 which isn't known until the assignment is marked. I understand that this is an IBM course and IBM would like to use it to demonstrate the capabilities of IBM software, but in this state it does harm to your brand image for potential future clients. Needs some work.

By okechi o

Dec 21, 2022

This course need a serious update. Since it is project based, the suppose to be an instructor for one to consult when stocked. The project dataset like packages, libraries that where installed often do not run. may be they are outdated, having been written since 2020. This course is the worse for student. I did not really learnt much, especially the use of BeautifulSoup library for Web Scraping. The concept is not easy to understand, even though I have knowledge of web design.

By Laura M P

Mar 9, 2021

Mixed feelings .... appreciated the challenge, but I could never have finished without the sample code provided in the Discussion. Perhaps better to rename this "Web Scraping with Python" and provide a ton more examples of different scraping different websites and practice labs. On the other hand, it did get my feet wet and it gave me the motivation to figure this out further on my own.

By Adam K

Feb 5, 2024

The assessment was overly difficult and there was a general lack of explanation to the exercises. I didn't like the structure, requiring the student to go back to previous modules to take pictures and copy/paste code in new formats

By Laith K

Mar 18, 2021

Good knowledge to learn, but can there please be an option to challenge peer grading? person who graded mine took off 2 points and when I looked back to see what was wrong, my solution matched the given solution exactly?????