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About the Course

In order to be successful in Data Science, you need to be skilled with using tools that Data Science professionals employ as part of their jobs. This course teaches you about the popular tools in Data Science and how to use them. You will become familiar with the Data Scientist’s tool kit which includes: Libraries & Packages, Data Sets, Machine Learning Models, Kernels, as well as the various Open source, commercial, Big Data and Cloud-based tools. Work with Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab, RStudio IDE, Git, GitHub, and Watson Studio. You will understand what each tool is used for, what programming languages they can execute, their features and limitations. This course gives plenty of hands-on experience in order to develop skills for working with these Data Science Tools. With the tools hosted in the cloud on Skills Network Labs, you will be able to test each tool and follow instructions to run simple code in Python, R, or Scala. Towards the end the course, you will create a final project with a Jupyter Notebook. You will demonstrate your proficiency preparing a notebook, writing Markdown, and sharing your work with your peers....

Top reviews

ED

Aug 14, 2022

I love the detailing of every aspect of this course. The Labs, the free subscriptions and free trials provided by IBM Skills Network, everything has been so amazing. Thank you Coursera, thank you IBM.

MO

Apr 17, 2023

the best course for the beginner who is going to start his data science journey. This course tells you all options like tools, libraries, programming languages, etc. Highly recommended for beginners.

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By Elijah C

Oct 9, 2022

The course was outstanding; I have the last tools needed to get started in Data Science.  If a student is not already familiar with the tools; they will experience gaps.  They will come to rely on the tools that IBM recommends to gather data, and create data models for accurate results.  But truly understand the logic behind each algorithm is key for students to fill in the gap thet may happen during the course.          

By md. s i T

Aug 8, 2023

The content is very rich and covered a wide range of data science tools. Although I have no programming background, but i understand the tools used for Data Science very Cleary. I hope this course will help me to cover the future courses. Though I had to struggle to complete this course, but it is really an amazing learning experience for me. I am very happy to complete this course. Thanks, the IBM team and Coursera.

By Francisco M

Apr 5, 2020

The course is good but sometimes the exercise texts are not very clear and some of the lessons are very straightforward, leaving many doubts. The course should have a larger series of exercises and an automatic correction system that facilitates the review of the exercises. In addition, it would be interesting to have a module on how to use IBMDB2 without the online platform, but through Jupyter on the computer.

By Catherine C

Apr 1, 2020

Without any prior knowledge of data science, I completed this course on my own. Although it was not easy, I am glad that I did it with several attempts. The pleasure of accomplishment from hard work was beyond words and could not be replaced by anything else. Moreover, it gave me the courage to challenge next course.

Thank all the teachers and everyone involved in making this course available to the public.

By Mouafo D

Jan 21, 2020

An amazing review of available tools for data science an data analysis. Many tools are reviewed, including tools for programing with different languages, cloud for online storage etc with some handy works to get familiar to them. The practices include the procedure of creating personal accounts, free profile in the IBM cloud. One ends up having a nice overview of many available tools for data science.

By Dr. M C

Feb 18, 2021

Tools for data science is a well-designed, self-paced, intensive course that includes components of theory and practical exercises. I found the course both stimulating and challenging. The ready availability of course materials helped me both to see and experiment with many open source and some proprietary tools. This course is an excellent way to prepare for further training as a data scientist.

By Jason D

Jul 21, 2019

Good Course! Goes through the basic tools for Data Science. The course assignments are fairly easy, especially if you have worked on any of these tools before. The IBM resources on the cloud that are used for this course are fantastic, although they are slow to load at times or confusing to navigate. But with some practice, it is easy to master them and take advantage of these open source tools!

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May 30, 2020

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By Paul W

May 2, 2023

I'm mostly a marketing and brand management pro. With the AI explosion, I decided to learn more about data science. This course has been an excellent primer while diving deep into tools and methods. AI is being integrated into many of these tools, so knowing a programming language will become less important in the future. This means domain experts can be data scientists in their fields.

By Vagia X

Feb 20, 2019

I did not know about Cognitive Class Labs. I was trying to install all these different packages in order to be able to work with them and make progress but I have always had difficulties. I am super excited that I finally realised that there is a much easier way to work with all these amazing tools on line without any problem :-) Thanks a lot Coursera and IBM for this amazing course :-)

By Srujan B

Sep 23, 2020

The course was well structured and I got to know the importance of all the included tools and how they work. One thing, I'd like to add is the tool limitations and errors we get usually. Well, I figured out after googling and researching, but then as they were usual errors, it'd have been great if we had a cheat sheet or something to avoid those errors time to time.

By Juan D P A

Apr 12, 2019

It was a very good introductory course to the Open Source tools available for the practice of Data Science. The pace is normal and the contents are enough to understand and fulfill the requirements in the final project assignment. The IBM Watson Studio presented some issues but they were solved in less than 24 hours by the IBM Engineers. Kudos to the support team!

By Meryl D

Apr 12, 2022

I like it. I've learned so much from it. It was exciting also to grade other students. The only problem is the tools. Though it's free, I had a problem connecting with it. So if you encountered problem with the tools you can just go to discussion. There you can ask question and seek answer for your problems. Goodluck and hope we hope we can all achieve our goal.

By Kefang A Y

Apr 18, 2019

It is very useful to know the IBM cloud platform and practical. The cloud platform is very complicate and may do many things. It looks like a forest for me.

Some videos is old interface. If there are step by step instructions, it will save me some time to quickly start. Assignment is easy, but take time to get used to the environment and to know where am I.

By OLUCHUKWU G

Apr 19, 2020

I have to give it 5 star cause it was so explanatory and exciting, though the video instructions need to be upgraded cause the web interface as at April 19th, 2020 isn't the same as the Video instructions. So that needs to be upgraded!!! But you work your way round it if you pay attention!!!

Nevertheless, it's a wonderful course and very exciting!!!!

By anand p

Feb 26, 2022

Good Course. Will suggest the learners to do optional labs and hands on with Jupyter Labs using Kaggle notebooks and explore IBM cloud and Watson Studio features such as Data Refinery to get the maximum out of this course. This course can easily take 25-30 Hours if you are a beginner and complete all hands on Kaggle exercises including GitHub.

By Diego C

Feb 16, 2024

I felt for the first time that I can make it to this world of IT! The course puts you in the driver's seat and gives you a glimpse of what this profession is all about. Great content and practice! I make emphasis in the practice, if you make it through, this can be your new job in the future! Thanks to Coursera and IBM for such a great course!

By Mamtha V S

Feb 20, 2019

Loved it! The most useful aspect was the cognitive class cloud web environment, which truly allows you the flexibility and mobility to practice from anywhere. There is no need to download install software, so you can access the course, literally from any machine, in a seamless manner. That's a very neat feature for someone who is working.

By Danny S

Sep 8, 2022

The videos in this course could certainly use a good update since many of the websites they ask you to use have been updated/changed/improved. Overall, this course is overflowing with very useful info and resources that you could need right away or in the near future, especially if you're new in this field (like me). I liked it a lot :)

By Mohammed A M A

Jun 29, 2020

Assignment assessment is not controlled and sometimes assessors don't assess based on the right content. I encountered this issue in several courses' assignments. I hope that the peer-graded assignment undergoes some revision to establish a more credited assessment approach.

Thank you for your consideration.

Coursera is always the best!

By K58 L D Q

Jun 19, 2021

This is a very informative course, provide data science newbies with various of tools to learn about on their data science journey. Not only that, this course also explained to me that doing data science isn't just analyzing data by coding with R or Python, it is more than that, with preparing data, storing data and building models.

By Joseph G

Nov 29, 2019

I learned so much in this course. I had no idea these tools were available in one place online. In preparation for doing the IBM Professional Certificate, I spent about a week installing programs and languages and stressing out about GUIs and IDEs. This course showed me multiple ways to get around all this and use IBM online tools.

By K L K

Oct 10, 2020

A very good informative course! All tools of data science are discussed. A bit practical sense of few important open source tools is given nicely. You will uderstood that there are wide variety of tools for data science! Great one! This will push the beginners out of their theoretical zone to see the real information and tools.

By Jess M

Jan 29, 2019

A lot of this is outdated since the IBM Watson stuff has been completely revamped, and the Zeppelin Notebooks tutorials were difficult to follow, since they seemed to have already been run when I went in, and therefore I couldn't tell what was function and what was output. But it's great to have all these free tools available.

By János T

Aug 8, 2023

Overall, I found tremendous value in this course. However, I noticed that the MAX is no longer available, which led to some confusion. While the course content is largely beneficial, some of the information seems to be outdated. I would recommend an update to ensure future learners have the most current and accurate resources.