ZS
Jan 13, 2021
The contents of this course are really practical and to the point. The examples and notebooks are also up to date and are very useful. i really recommend this course if you want to start with Spark.
EH
Jul 21, 2021
Nice course. Learned the basics of a lot of different topics. Nice to do a large Data Science project in the last part. So you can apply all learned theory
By Atif A G
•Jun 10, 2020
Good Course but could have had a lot more detail.
By Tinguaro B
•Oct 4, 2018
Great introduction to Data Science on IBM Cloud.
By Giovani F M
•Dec 20, 2019
Great course to learn basic knowledge in spark!
By Akash S
•Jul 4, 2020
Good course, but assignments are a bit easy
By Francesco C
•Feb 25, 2021
Good explanation. Perfect starting course.
By Rong L
•Jul 18, 2020
The instructor can be a bit slower.
By Emmanuel N S
•Apr 10, 2019
Nice course with good tutorials
By Heyimeng
•Oct 21, 2020
i think it is a bit too simple
By Caner B B
•Nov 19, 2020
please include more practice
By Michal P
•Mar 28, 2019
Very nice introduction
By Elias L
•Dec 31, 2018
Have been a good one!
By jin p
•Jun 4, 2019
Thanks, really helps
By Deleted A
•Feb 11, 2019
Can I get a badge?
By Bladimir P
•Sep 24, 2020
Great course!
By Ahmed T
•Mar 10, 2019
Excellent :)
By Andrei O
•Aug 10, 2018
Good course!
By Marvin L
•Apr 2, 2020
it was good
By Fernando P
•Oct 2, 2020
Very good!
By Caroline L
•Apr 27, 2021
Too easy.
By Italo L
•Feb 29, 2020
Great
By Carlos F
•Apr 29, 2021
This was not especially well made. A number of the examples shown on videos don't necessarily work or are outdated with respect to the platform or the datasets you're working with. Perhaps, greater attention should be given towards guiding the student to the github repo were the notebooks are up to date and working properly. Otherwise a good course, definitely not introductory to cloud, if that's what you're looking for. There is some high level programming that I'm defnitely not prepared for but the notebooks are so complete that I did not have to apply myself so much. So on the one side I appreciate the ease of the notebooks but, on the other side, have some doubt as to the practical knowledge acquired. Hoping later courses in the specialization clear this out for me.
By Nikhil P P
•Feb 8, 2019
It was difficult to follow the IBM cloud setup since it was constantly changing, I couldn't understand the reason for using python2.7 since its only 10 months before it wont be supported by the community. Sometime instructors' pronunciations were not clear and and thus added extra confusion. However, instructor do actively participate in helping with discussions. Audio and video quality were also not very good. This course is a very basic introduction to IBM cloud and general stats. Prior knowledge of spark is useful. Overall the course is nice introduction to IBM cloud if one is interested.
By Jennifer K
•Mar 11, 2021
This is a good introduction and overview to working with Spark. The assignments are very straightforward and I think that the biggest benefit is learning how to set up a work-station in IBM and working with your notebooks there. One thing that I think should be improved is the version of Python and Spark that is being demonstrated: the lectures should update to Python 3 and we also have Spark 3 by now; focus should be on data frames instead of RDD. Also, lots of links need to be updated because their references are deprecated and so no longer exist.
By Bayram
•Feb 25, 2020
This is a very basic course even if it's my first interaction with Apache Spark. For sure, it gives some information. But I found the timeframes stated too long. You feel like you'll get a lot of information. But a week of videos and readings and assignments can be done in 1.5-4 hours depending on your experience how much time you spend on assignments.
Also, there are many materials that are outdated. That should be fixed if this course carries the name of IBM.
By Rameez R
•Sep 1, 2020
The coding part is easy to comprehend but the course does not offer much opportunity to practice and learn the coding. The assignments are straight forward and doable. Sometimes it is hard to read the code in the videos even at 720p as it appears blurred. The subtitles cover some of the formulae shown at the bottom of the video and there are many mistakes in subtitles.
Overall, it is a good introductory course that gives you an idea of about Apache Spark.