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I've taken this course, and while the instructors clearly put a lot of effort into it, I found it missed the mark by quite a lot. The assignments use fancy al
by asafira 11y ago
I've taken this course, and while the instructors clearly put a lot of effort into it, I found it missed the mark by quite a lot.
The assignments use fancy algorithms, but often with little motivation; as such, I doubt I will remember most techniques. Furthermore, the class didn't have enough prerequisites, and so the derivations and discussions were often soft or missing --- again, making it harder to learn. Most importantly, the time you spend on the class is dominated by the homework, but it suffered from the issue a lot of online coding courses have: if you are told to write a function, given its signature, behavior, etc, you aren't learning the material. instead, you chug away at it like it's programming 101, pass the tests, and move on without reading up on the methods that used that function. and that's exactly what happens with a large portion of the homework assignments in this class.
- bfaviero 11y ago+1 this course was very much so either a) Do this basically exactly how we told you do do it, basically "filling in the blanks" b) Predict the midterm elections (well fuck, this is an intro class, I'm really not sure what to do) I found it to be quite poorly structured, and its lessons did not translate well into being able to do data science off on your own problems
- davidwihl 11y agoI agree about the homework, but that's why the project component was worth 40% of the grade and took the final month of the semester.
- lobo_tuerto 11y agoWhat is your recommended course for Data Science, I'm looking for the best materials out there...
- mathattack 11y agoSounds symptomatic of many programming classes catering to non-programmers. The better programmers don't have enough material to go in depth, while the weaker ones get enough paint-by-numbers to get through, without really understanding anything. And for better or worse, so much of data science is cleaning data and figuring out how to link datasets that don't have good indexes.