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.
By Abdul A M R
•Jun 6, 2021
The course actually is quite tough for a beginner like me. I had to google a lot since the materials in the course do not really help to answer the questions (especially the final assignment). But the course instructors are very, very helpful and responsive. I did not personally asked them but they answered to many other students' questions and I can just refer those in the discussion whenever I'm stuck. Overall, the course is still great for learners, gotta put some effort to understand the coding but definitely worth it for your growth! Totally recommend it!
By Bartłomiej I
•Feb 3, 2024
After completing the Python Project for data science, I wondered if it makes sense to continue with the IBM data science course. The project seemed to be a section where someone clearly didn't bother to create an interesting task for students. It essentially involved repeating the same code multiple times with only a change in the provided parameters – in this case, stock tickers. In the end, we create a graph, but we don't truly understand how, as the function that generates it is predefined. This has been the least satisfying part of the entire course so far. I am very very disappointed
By Leonard D
•Aug 2, 2022
Good content, but the exercises can hardly be performed due to technical issues.
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