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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 Rania

Feb 21, 2024

It's great course

By pritee k

Jun 23, 2021

very informative

By Harsh P

Mar 29, 2020

Amazing Course!

By Miguel H

Aug 7, 2022

Great course!!

By Naeema T

Jul 22, 2020

amazing course

By WANG Y J

May 8, 2021

useful course

By Gerald D

Nov 27, 2020

Great course!

By Silvia M R

Feb 14, 2023

Excellent!!!

By hongsu

Jun 17, 2022

good course

By Josabet A A G

Jul 2, 2021

Good Course

By Lina J

Oct 26, 2023

Excellent!

By Victor C

Oct 11, 2023

Excellent

By Amin

Jan 14, 2020

Thank you

By Emma R

Oct 26, 2023

MUY UTIL

By Ardiansyah R

Sep 18, 2022

Best

By Полина К

Apr 22, 2023

It's perfect course, so precise videos and transcription! I express my gratitude to all the tutors and other members of a team who took part in course creation. You did really great job!

Note the course is not for the very beginner - you should understand smth in math, statistic and coding

What I didn't like at all in the course - a huge gap between detailed lessons and unexpectedly blurry explanations about how to write the final report. It seemed to me that I'd lost a week of lessons about doing the project somewhere

At least some examples or practise should be provided. I write marketing reports due to my current occupation but I got no idea whether my skills are appropriate in this case

By Harini B

Aug 19, 2023

Basic concepts were explained in a systematic manner. Understanding was very easy with all those hands on exercises. End of course project was a struggle, needed some more ideas regarding the prediction of the model. Some more material regarding that would be of help. On the whole enjoyed the course, discussions were interesting and peer reviews helped understand other ways of answering the questions. Thank to the entire team of University of London and Coursera for this course.

By vijaya r

May 25, 2020

This course starts from fundamental level. The instructors clearly explains statistical methods such as mean, variance, standard deviation, variance etc with python source code on a simple data set. Then they have explained plotting with labels and finally how to apply k-means clustering on bank note authentication dataset.

By Milica C

Aug 10, 2023

Peer assessment is not my cup of tea. On the other hand, automatic code assessment has its pitfalls as well. I am not sure what the appropriate set-up should be for MOOCs.

Also, a different data set could have been more appropriate for the last week of classes in this course, in my humble opinion.

By Justin M J

May 11, 2020

I would highly recommend this course for any beginners. it simply suits both the first timers and people who wish to further existing knowledge and understanding of Python and data science to another level. enjoyable homebased learning.

By Daniel e

Apr 1, 2021

First 4 weeks very good (you learn enough and there are interesting topics), last week very "backloaded" half the course I would say. Also you dont get to do your ow project but is given a topic which i did not like. very good overall.

By Saleh A

Apr 28, 2022

Clear instructions and explanations. Could be a little more details on the algorithm. Makes it a very good course for "getting things done". If you are interested in what goes on under the hood though this might not be for you.

By NGUYỄN D H

Apr 26, 2023

Great!!! I really enjoyed the course and found it to be very helpful in giving me a basic understanding of the foundations of data science. Thanks to the course, I feel much more prepared to move forward with this subject.