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Organisations all around the world are using data to predict behaviours and extract valuable real-world insights to inform decisions. Managing and analysing big data has become an essential part of modern finance, retail, marketing, social science, development and research, medicine and government. This MOOC, designed by an academic team from Goldsmiths, University of London, will quickly introduce you to the core concepts of Data Science to prepare you for intermediate and advanced Data Science courses. It focuses on the basic mathematics, statistics and programming skills that are necessary for typical data analysis tasks. You will consider these fundamental concepts on an example data clustering task, and you will use this example to learn basic programming skills that are necessary for mastering Data Science techniques. During the course, you will be asked to do a series of mathematical and programming exercises and a small data clustering project for a given dataset....

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GK

Aug 31, 2021

This course has great potential for future Data Scientists and it gives a breif explination of what we are dealing in the companies by giving us real life problems and making us solve those problems.

AH

Jun 3, 2020

I love this course as it gives me the foundations of learning the Python coding program and relevant statistical methods that used for data analysis. It's really interesting course to attend to.

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By Muhammad S A S

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Sep 23, 2023

This course is excellent! I found it to be a valuable introduction to data science, covering essential concepts in a clear and engaging manner. The hands-on approach, particularly the final project, provided practical experience that boosted my confidence. Highly recommended for anyone starting their data science journey.

By Jaystka P

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Nov 3, 2023

Seluruh materi dalam kursus ini sangat mudah dipahami dan disajikan dalam bahasa yang sederhana. Selain itu, peserta juga diberikan banyak contoh kasus yang relevan dan menarik sehingga membuat kursus menjadi lebih interaktif dan memungkinkan peserta untuk mempraktikkan langsung di tempat kerja atau proyek mereka.

By Sem A

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Oct 29, 2020

A very enjoyable course that has opened my eyes to data science. Not coming from a data / mathematical background is not a huge drawback, but be prepared to read around the subject matter if you want to gain a better appreciation of the course slides and videos. Very happy that I found this course.

By edajima h

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Jul 15, 2020

I think this is a very good course for beginners in Data Science and Python. I know how to implement K-means algorithm but wanted to learn Python, so I took this course. It is well organized, and videos are short and concise. I am looking forward to more intermediate / advanced courses of this.

By Yuanita S

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Jun 15, 2021

I thoroughly enjoyed the course. The tutors were great and the videos were of excellent quality. As a novice in Python, this course gave me a gentle yet sufficient introduction to the basics of Python along with some of its powerful packages: Pandas, NumPy&Matplotlib and Scikit-learn.

By Tarik S

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Jun 21, 2020

Great course. It involves a lot of independent work but that is the nature of learning to programme in any language. Once you get down to doing the work the course is enjoyable and the learning curve is steep and therefore productive. Time well invested

By Hsing S H

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Jul 31, 2022

I enjoy and learn a lot in this data science course. I used Python in my algorithm courses several years ago, but this is my first data science course. I studied nearly everyday and completed in four weeks. The topics are practical and interesting.

By Nicolas G

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Aug 28, 2022

It is a very good course about the foundations of Data Science. As a person new to all this world of Data I was able to understand it all, watching the videos and reading the notes, just be patient and open your brain to absorb the information !

By Tushar D

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Oct 26, 2022

The Course was really helpful to learn as abasic learner about working with different datasets. Applying different libraries in python and visualise the data with clustering concepts were very well explained in the course.

By Homira H

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Sep 18, 2023

Great Course which was not an easy course but fabulous tutors competently delivered the course in a structured way and made my learning curve very enjoyable. Thank you Tutors and Coursera for making it possible :)

By Tahereh R

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Apr 19, 2021

One of the best courses on machine learning that starts from the mathematical concept of k-means clustering and walks you through the algorithm and the programming step-by-step. Thanks a lot to the instructors!

By Abdul S

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Oct 7, 2023

This course is short in length but with wealth of information. From statistical concepts of the data science to the key Machine Leaning concepts it will enable you with many skills and bundle of knowledge.

By Gadde K

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Sep 1, 2021

This course has great potential for future Data Scientists and it gives a breif explination of what we are dealing in the companies by giving us real life problems and making us solve those problems.

By Austin T L H

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Jun 4, 2020

I love this course as it gives me the foundations of learning the Python coding program and relevant statistical methods that used for data analysis. It's really interesting course to attend to.

By Lara

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Oct 26, 2022

Well explained but brief enough to not let you get bored. Challenging if you put effort, it helped me restart programming! Loved it. Well rounded course even if on a very specific topic!

By Marianne M

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Jun 29, 2020

Very interesting course! The lecturers explain concepts thoroughly which makes the concepts easy to understand even for people without much knowledge in Data Science

By Maria Z Z P

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Sep 13, 2020

It was a well-taught course. I felt that during the final project-making, students were not spoon-fed, instead, pushed us to become more creative.

By Tavia F

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Jul 12, 2022

I learnt alot, a very good foundation course. It made me have more interest in learning more in Data Science particularly using Python language

By HoiYu N

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Jul 21, 2021

Week 3 is a bit difficult for those who don't have a strong maths background. More explanation on the mathematics notations can be helpful.

By Prabir S

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Jun 25, 2021

A Great course which successfully marries both the mathematical/statistical foundations for K-Means and also its implementation in Python.

By Yordan И

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Jul 27, 2021

Very informative course. You can learn how to cluster and clisfy data and how to write down report on the given statistical analysis.

By Osaghae N

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Apr 23, 2023

This course gave me a good glimpse into the world of data science. the teaching, exercises and project were a great way to learn.

By Leonard J

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Mar 5, 2022

Very good course to help you understand the basics of data science, the videos are short so will not cover everything you need

By Nicola T

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Feb 25, 2021

Complete and clear introductory course, recommended for people interested in understanding the basics of data science.

By Brahmananda R

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Mar 20, 2022

one of the best course for getting the foundation done for Data scince and AI.Would like to recommend it to others