Fundamentals of Scalable Data Science

awesome course, got a good understanding of statistics in an intuitive manner.The main strength of this course is that, this course will help you to develop intuition of the whole data science concepts into the real world scenario.

Wonderful course This course is very recommended if you want to bring your Data Science skill to the next level.

The assignment is really challenging for me as the new comer in this Data Science world, but yeah, i finally can finished this course.

This course and certificate look like they should come after the first Data Science Certificate (9 courses).

This particular course could provide a lot more information and education on scalable data science.

Looking Forward for the next courses of the IBM Degree for advance data science Was really Good, I loved it ^_^ Some errors like lambdas are not working anymore with Python, some typos like in Assignment 4.1 and missing steps.

Good:Introduces Scalable Data Science and setting up the proper environments.Areas for Improvement:Not fully compatible with Python 3.5 (frustrating)Could use some pre-requisite course material such as basic SQL and walk-through of pyspark SQL DataFrames.Structure and presentation could be improved and reorganized.Instructions need proof-reading.

IBM cloud environment is buggy and inconsistent with lectures.When deploying services it sometimes fails and you are unable to remove them, rendering the account inoperable (as you have limits on free tier) Setup process is tedious Currently, it is not advisable to take this course.I have finished the excellent IBM Data Science Professional Certificate series on Coursera and wanted to improve my knowledge of scalable Data Science with this series.

Good for beginners in Data Science who have basic knowledge of python and SQL.

Excellent Course with very interesting assignment and informative video course Very good data science specialization covering many interesting advanced technologies!

Great introduction to Data Science on IBM Cloud.

Great way to understand and learn open source tools and latest IBM data science offerings.

I would appreciate some more in depth practical/technical information about IoT, also about apache spark and the overall mechanism of action in the real world.

I am happy that this course gave me my first practical experience with Apache Spark.

This course gives you nice experience with Apache Spark.

great introduction about Apache Spark and IBM Cloud Amazing course and especially instructor!!!

good one to start A really good introduction to Apache Spark.

Need more exercises related to wrangling data and manipulating SQL's with apache spark Simply not on the same level as other ML Courses on Coursera.

It gives great introduction into Apache Spark and its applications in real problems.

General into into how to deal with large data using Apache Spark Nice introduction, not too difficult without being so easy that you learn nothing.Sometimes outdated contents, but I always find solutions quickly to make everything work.

A very nice introduction to Apache Spark and it's environment.

This class make me confident in using apache spark for data projects that I may need.

A pretty good starter course for apache spark although the software version used in this course is outdated .

THE COURSE CONTENT WAS HELPUL FOR STARTING WITH APACHE SPARK AND PYTHON USING APACHE SPARK.

This course is a very basic introduction to IBM cloud and general stats.

Overall the course is nice introduction to IBM cloud if one is interested.

In most cases, the version of IBM Cloud now being deployed varies from the course, so students have to figure it out themselves.

While getting used to IBM Cloud takes time, it is definitely a friendlier environment for data scientists and it removes the burden of setting up the infrastructure.

Good demonstration of basic stats using IBM Cloud & Spark.

Extremely unusable tutorials, extremely bad organization of the the materials, extremely bad accent, extremely unusable IBM cloud service, extremely outdated tutorial for environment setup, and you name it.

Major concern was to promote IBM cloud than to teach.

This is an excellent course, I had no previous experience with Big Data or Hadoop but this course helped me learn lot's of new technologies and also it helped me learn about big data.

very good enhancement in data science Good course, but assignments are a bit easy This course can be a bit tough at the start, especially if you (like me) are unfamiliar with big data, Hadoop and/or Spark.

I eventually took these free courses as it really helps strengthen your big data fundamentals, including RDD, HDFS and Spark.Assignments are ok, definitely doable and easier than they could have been.

I learned satisfactory tools and ideas about how to handle big data.

Great Introductory course for Big Data Analytics.

pretty good course for a beginner new to big data analysis.

Big data materials are less discussed specially coding sections Really a good course for Data Science Programming.

I now understand how to deal with big data using Spark which is exactly what I wanted.

A detailed explanation on the trade off of different approaches that can be used in Big Data but there is not enough examples of manipulating big datasets As an advanced course, the concepts here are pretty basic.

thanks for the course I will not recommend it for beginners.

Good guidance and a great start up for beginners as well a beneficial during this Covid-19 excellent organized course best course Amazing Intro to Apache spark.

easier to just make it labs and some reading as all the videos are just watching the instructor type code The course is perfect for beginners but some videos are old.

Very well organised material...Really liked the concept of dimension reduction and PCS.Suggestion:- It is not for beginners so you may modify it as intermediate course.. Actually I find it advanced level course and I had gone through Spark Programming Fundamentals as you said.. And thus I was able to complete it...

My suggestion would be to give a more detailed explanation of the cloud/parallel computing, how it's structured, how to set up servers, etc.

At first, I'm not sure what to do and it is hard for me to set up environment.

The best part is the programming assignment and tutorials: great hands-on introduction to IBM Watson Studio with manageable examples.

It is surprising that topics have not been updated after many comments in the discussion forum.Overall for me, it was a great experience and great learning experience I learned using Spark with RDDs on IBM Watson Studio ? Great Really liked this course.