TN
Apr 14, 2020
Good course to give a basic understanding of predictive modelling and analytics. Good assignments and opportunity to review peer submissions help reinforce the learnings.
HA
Nov 19, 2017
this course teach you about the technical of using tools for predictive modeling. very useful for you who want to learn the fundamental of analytics.
By MD. M H
•Jun 13, 2020
I really think the lecturer has so much knowledge and wisdom to share with us. But it all goes in vain when students can't understand properly what the lecturer says because of his accent.
I tried very much to understand, it was very hard for me, even with the transcript.
I hope to learn more.
By Gabriel A
•Jun 16, 2020
Very difficult to understand, even with CC. The backbone of this course is a little bit of macro handy work from 1995. I am not the most experienced in the field, but i find it hard to believe that any F500 company would use let alone pay for use of that thing.
By David X
•Jul 30, 2020
I would suggest this course to update its video by using text to speech. "The Data Scientist’s Toolbox" is a good example !
too many errors in the scripts, I have posted some on the course forum. some assignments questions not mentioned in the course.
By Renée S
•Apr 29, 2020
This course requires advanced pre-existing knowledge of statistics to really be of any use. New concepts, formulas and techniques are barely explained but are presented as a 'given'. The course does give you good working knowledge of the Solver tool.
By Ruslan K
•Aug 31, 2020
Interesting course however, it was very difficult to understand the instructor. I've had to use the lesson subtitles and slide pack to study the material; then just used to play video lesson to be able to open the next lesson.
By Lokesh T
•Jul 17, 2020
Its really hard to understand the instructor even subtitles mentions inaudible on many places. There should either proper presentations available or Coursera can redraw this course with another instructor
By Rutvik P
•Jan 24, 2022
Explanation across the specialization is extraordinary , however this course is core analytics and statistical. A nin-depth explanation of results of models and more engagement is required
By Markanday R
•Aug 18, 2020
The instructor rushed through the videos, explanations were not very clear. The material was not very in depth and the coursework was not that helpful in understanding the concepts.
By Eduardo R O S
•Apr 1, 2020
The instructor speak to fast and it's hard to understand what he said too many times. The material in the course in not well done. I believe that the course needs to be remake.
By Manas K
•Apr 17, 2020
Much below my expectation or the level and quality the other courses bring. There are so many areas within this course that could be improved.
By tan l d
•Jan 6, 2020
The accent of instructor is too strong to understand, it's an unpleasant experience to have listen through the class.
By Faizan R
•Jun 15, 2020
its very difficult to understand the accent of the person otherwise content is very useful
By Svetoslava K
•Feb 2, 2021
The instructor is certainly knowledgeable of the topic but has no idea how to teach
By Vedad K
•May 20, 2020
Assignments are interesting but the explanations and presentations are awful.
By Connor C
•Mar 26, 2020
Could not understand the instructor and the information was not useful
By Urmika K
•Aug 12, 2020
Didn't really like the instructor for this course.
By Pranay B
•Jun 2, 2021
The faculty was really bad
By Dham S
•Apr 24, 2020
poor content structure
By Kevin J
•Jun 3, 2020
I don't usually rate applications, let alone courses, but this is the one course I was extremely frustrated at, and I saw that I was not alone in this.
First, assignment 3 is buggy, very likely because the version of xlminer is different (I ended up downloading xlminer from other available sources because the version this course gave did not work!!). Different versions including the partition result presentation and logistic regression step 1 appearance.
Second, xlminer is COMPULSORY and NOT FREE (free trial does not count). You can not even use other tools such as Python or R because some of the values asked in questions specifically require excel to get. I still don't get why xlminer can not be a free open source add-ins. Python and R's basic machine libraries are free, why isn't xlminer?
Third, this course is the PREREQUISITE to Advance Business Analytics, which I am more interested in. Combine with my second point, it's like locking a character in a game behind a paywall as a DLC, of course people would not like it.
If you are aiming for a certificate for this course, just forget it, it's not worth it. If you are aiming for learning the subject, you can still take the course. Overall, absolutely not going to recommend it.
To developer of this course, please REVISE THE ASSIGNMENT ASAP.
By Aman G
•May 11, 2020
This class doesn't even deserve that one star.It is easily the worst class I've ever taken on Coursera. The data in the final does not match the description. There are mistakes in the lessons and on the quiz. There is no feedback to forum.I was very disappointed by this course. The professor was knowledgeable, but was difficult to understand and spoke quickly. Even the transcript had the words [INAUDIBLE] listed multiple times because he was so difficult to understand. There were no slides, so note taking was difficult. The course also requires paying $25 for an Excel Add-In, which was not mentioned before enrolling in the course. The Excel Add-In is a different version from the version used in the video, so it was very difficult to follow along because the screens and outputs were different. I also had an issue with the Excel Add-In that made some of my work late because the issue could not be resolved quickly. The Analytic Solver (the Add-Inrepresentative said the problem was on their end, and had to fix the issue himself. Overall I was extremely disappointed and would not recommend this course to anyone. If this had been the first course in the specialization, I would not have continued. In my opinion UC-B needs to rethink if they should even offer this course.
By Lauri S
•Apr 27, 2020
I learned close to nothing (I want to say it was absolutely nothing because I think that's accurate), from this course. In my opinion, it was just a plug for the university's data miner plug-in. The instructor was so hard to understand and the videos didn't instruct on how to implement the practices they "taught". Finally, I don't know anyone in data analytics who uses these methods of predictive modeling. They're outdated and school-level insights used by professors. I do not recommend this course to anyone.
By Trevor B
•Jun 22, 2020
As if the professor's lifeless eyes didn't make it tough to focus on the videos already, the professor was incredibly tough to understand to the point where even the person captioning the video had to add "(Inaudible)" at places. I also had to spend 2 days just trying to figure out XLMiner because I didn't have Excel and then later XLMiner wouldn't let me log in. This course was a nightmare
By Michael R
•Aug 4, 2021
Solver gave me a temporary license which quickly expired before I finished all the classes. I have contacted them multiple times. This course is honestly not worth the hassle of trying to get access to their software. The desktop version doesn't work on my computer and the 365 temporary trial quickly expired. This was one of the worst experiences I've had on coursera.
By Jen H
•Feb 6, 2024
It's a shame how poorly this class is set up. The teacher's lectures are awful and I couldn't follow a single video. I had to Google to learn on my own in order to complete the homework. I would not recommend this class to anyone who doesn't need to suffer their way through it for this specialization. I really hope they redo the class some day.
By Alexander H
•Feb 3, 2022
The lecturing definitely needs to be improved. It is really difficult to understand the instructor. Sometimes it is easier to read the transcript than watching the video! Additionally some slides / graphs in the video are not visible at all. Compared to the first course of this specialization this was a big disappointment!