LS
Nov 27, 2018
The course with the IBM Lab is a very good way to learn and practice. The tools we've learned in this module can supply a good material to enrich all data work that need to be presented in a nice way.
CJ
Apr 22, 2023
Learnt a lot from this visualization course. The one I found most interesting was making the dashboard. Although sometime the code and indentation are tedious, but this might be useful in the future.
By Sam S
•Apr 30, 2021
This was the most complicated to understand out of all of them, at least the final project was.
By Logesh K
•Mar 9, 2021
The final assignment was not straightforward. It doesn't check the visualization capabilities.
By Deepak N
•Apr 19, 2019
Needs better and more elaborate explanation. It's too tough to understand and execute.Thanks!
By Thais C M
•Jul 24, 2019
Some of the questions on the final assignment questions were not covered on this course.
By Anna K
•Mar 4, 2019
There was no course material teaching us how to do one of the tasks for final assignment
By Richard L
•Mar 13, 2020
A lot of material is not explained verbally, videos are half-useless and repeating.
By Marcelo A
•Jan 11, 2022
Final assignment confusing. Some code questions of the tests were poorly formatted
By Divya S
•Jan 4, 2021
The tutorial videos needed to have more content and explanation and not the labs.
By Sumit A
•Nov 30, 2019
Please have more explanation in Videos. The content is not covered enough in labs
By Nicholas A M
•May 10, 2021
Solid lectures, but final project and labs had errors. Fix these problems soon.
By Thomas C
•Dec 12, 2023
Code was not taught nearly as well as the other modules in the certificate.
By Armen M
•Nov 26, 2019
Not Fully explained. The final agriment tasks not match with course content
By Jan D
•Oct 6, 2018
No Instructors helping out. Little is learned... Not worth taking.
By Catalina M C
•Mar 23, 2020
The lab stopped working and we didn't get any support.
By Mehul S
•Jan 4, 2020
Questions in the peer graded are little out of scope.
By Osama H
•Dec 11, 2020
need to adjust material very bad labs and tutorials
By David H
•Mar 23, 2020
Poor examples / labs! Labs very often not working.
By Dylan S
•Jan 5, 2021
lack of adequate instruction for some assignments
By Dony G
•Feb 6, 2020
Poor study material compared to the assignment
By Mark S J
•Apr 4, 2023
The Skillshare network is not working. :>
By supman
•May 17, 2022
opening a tool takes too long
By Adwaith M K
•Sep 28, 2023
i didnt get my badge
By Joshua T
•Aug 3, 2019
Need to be clearer
By Bryce M
•Jan 5, 2021
not very clear
By Trevor H
•May 3, 2024
This is definitely the worst IBM course I have taken. Truly awful. The good: It introduces you to multiple visualization packages, albeit briefly. The instructor responses to most of my questions were detailed and helpful, though many responses I saw to other questions were unhelpful or even inaccurate. The bad: Where to begin? The course suffers from very poorly written/designed instructional materials. For example, students are often tasked with creating visualizations that don’t make much sense or are not optimal for the situation. The final project material is particularly awful. The dataset students are given is a synthesized dataset that is very poorly designed. Even the instructors are not sure exactly what the rows and some of the variables represent. Of course, creating a visualization using a dataset with a nonsensical structure is likely to produce a nonsensical result, but sometimes even the visualization prompts themselves are nonsense. Why were we asked to create a bar chart with two continuous variables and one categorical variable? Why were we asked to create a line chart for data that has multiple observations for specific x-axis values? Students complained about this, and the staff said they would fix it months ago but have not, which is another issue. You might often find yourself thinking “what abomination of a graph did I just create? Is this right?” then checking the solution code and seeing that you are correct, it is just a nonsense plot. I would be embarrassed to show somebody the work I created in this course, even though I did it correctly. Many of the quiz/exam questions and/or answers are either vague, nonsensical, or not very educational. As an example, a question on the final exam (which I will not write here) asked a question akin to asking “What feature of a car is helpful for buying a car?” What kind of a question is that? Students complained and the staff said they would remove it months ago but have not. Another question was like asking “What kind of animal is a dog?” and giving the answer choices: A) A furry animal B) An animal that hisses C) A lizard D) A dead animal What is that supposed to teach us? What do you mean by “kind”? The course materials are also full of typos. Did nobody proofread the course content and think critically about it? Some responses I saw from instructors also contained many serious typos. Also, as previously mentioned twice, errors and egregiously badly written course material are slow to get fixed (if at all?). I wasted so much time wondering if I was doing something right, if something was a typo, or what a vague prompt or question meant. The course materials also use deprecated functions, sending me on a hunt to find and learn the current functions. None of this is helped by the script-reading robot voice that often lacks subtle but important intonation and sentence pacing. Another, more foundational issue with the course is that it doesn’t really teach you that much about each visualization package. This is especially true for the dashboarding section. There is no way I would feel confident building a real dashboard for an organization with just the knowledge learned in this course. The lack of depth is also exacerbated by the fact that the visualizations being created are not well suited to the problem at hand or are based on nonsense data. If this course is meant to teach us useful skills, shouldn’t we be creating realistic visualizations that are representative of how a data analyst would visualize real-world problems? I could say more, but the bottom line is that I do not recommend this course for learning data visualization with Python. I seriously hope IBM overhauls this course.