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Once again, quality hands-on labs were the highlight of this course (as has been the case throughout the IBM Data Science Certificate courses). The end-of-week quizzes were also a bit more difficult/involved, which was a good challenge. Still, I think there's room to increase the difficulty a bit further - after all, you can re-take the quizzes if at first you don't pass. I appreciated that the final project gave us the opportunity to apply a wide range of the skills that we learned.

That being said, I think there was quite a bit of fluff in the lectures. I would have preferred more content/exposure to other libraries rather than the redundant "data recaps" at the beginning of almost every video. I also would have appreciated more theory/recommendations for selecting the best visualization for a given application.

The best parts of the course were the labs and the final assignment. I spend a lot of time at the labs, paying extra attention to the details and often following the external links suggested by the instructor. I found the final assignment very interesting with good explanations step by step and I especially liked how the instructor were present at the discussion forums.

The weakest part of the course were the videos, I think I could have skipped them altogether. The information mentioned in them were elaborated much better at the labs. Also, for some reason, 1/3 of each video was exactly the same clip recalling the dataset. That felt a bit useless and loss of time! On the other hand, each video was a couple of minutes long so no big deal in the end.

The videos are nice and clear, the visualizations are beautiful, and I'm sure that all of the libraries presented are extremely useful. But this course is not well-suited to students who have no prior background in Python before taking the Applied Data Science specialization. I look forward to coming back and maybe having a shot at understanding the code in the labs after I take a Python programming course. The long chunks of code presented here are mostly opaque if all you have are the previous courses in this specialization.

The reason I'm giving it 4 stars is because the although the content was good, the labs were challenging but there are something which I found missing, for example, there should have been more information on libraries related to cholorpleth map. !wget was not working on my PC's jupyter notebook and looking it up on the internet was even harder because this extension or whatever it is big on its own. I don't know what to write to get the correct google search.

The lectures make everything seem simple, but you really have to dive into the labs and make a point of studying on your own. You can easily get through most of this course just by running the Jupyter Notebooks that are provided then copy/pasting and editing for the final. If you really want to get something out of the course, you really have to motivate yourself to learn the material.

Honestly, out of all the courses I've taken so far, this one was the best, in terms of presentation. The instructor repeated a lot of the formatting for each code block and by the end, one could easily remember what code to use for the specific visualizations.

The only reason I did not give 5 stars was because I thought the final assignment deviated a bit, but otherwise, a good course.

This course has one advantage over the others in the series: practice time. The labs are more thorough and provide more practice problems. However, the overall quality in production of this course is lower than the others. Additionally, there were some points awarded on the final project for things simply not covered in the lectures or labs, which was frustrating to say the least.