Having an instructor narrate is extremely important in a course. The robot that is narrating makes the videos unwatchable.

Completely useless. Just a number of boring videos of what you may possibly learn in Data Science Specialization.

I've taken a class in R. Half the quiz answers are wrong and is really overall pointless as a course.

The course contains almost no valuable information. It is not required to spend 4 weeks for it.

It is unbelievable how one can learn with this boring automatic course. I can not stand it!

It's a course which is designed to preview the other courses. It could easily be eliminated

I​t's boring. The robot's voice is annoying that's why I can't focus on the lesson per se.

I do not like the voice in this course . I will can not continue the course .

Automated voice was terrible. - I didn't even last through the first video.

I just made me install R, R Studio and a repo on Git. Thats it.

Too compact and short. Should be integrated to other courses.

Terribly run waste of money! Better off going to Data Camp!

Synthesized voice is used instead of an instructor. Boring

It was useless for me; as i have used R studio previously

Low quality, I didn't learn anything really.

Bad course. All videos are machined read.

I really don't like the automated videos.

That kind of robotic video are the worst

A lot of information without practice

Seemed pretty useless to me

No effort whatsoever

Too basic

I would like to report some major issues with the new interface.

1) We don't have access to the slides anymore. This is a major issues since some of the slides content important links. These links are not shown in the transcript (I've double checked).

2) When we try to download the videos, subtitles or transcript, the resulting file name is the same for all content of the same type. More specifically, all videos are named "index.mp4", all subtitle files are named "subtitles.vtt" and all transcript files are named "subtitle.txt". This makes it more difficult for the student to save the files. In the previous version I would only right-click and saved in the right directory. Now, I have to right click, type the right name (which could be long sometimes) and then save the file.

3) In the previous interface, it was possible to see all the threads we were subscribed to. It is no more the case. It is not a problem right now, because there is not a lot of posts, but in cases where the number of post increase, it will be a pain to go through the list of threads and find the ones of interest.

Please ignore the review for now, I couldn't submit my comments without reviewing the course.

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This is a recommended course for anyone serious with data science. It is highly accessible, especially for screen-reader users who may be comfortable taking lectures using text rather than videos. I was able to successfully complete assignments on my own without problems. However, the only setback I see with the course is its over-reliance on RStudio. While Rstudio is a great IDE for R programming, it is not yet fully accessible. So questions like, "Which quadrant is at the bottom right corner" are answered as a guess-work rather than full knowledge. I suggest that command-line options be considered as this is accessible for everyone. Thus, while the GUI option is left intact, there is need to also provide command-line alternative to accomplishing the same thing. Otherwise, this course is perhaps the best when it comes to introducing the concepts on data science.

The Professor's are just amazing in their knowledge. The slow bits of information and the way testing is done is so methodical and so well planned. If anybody says they are bored then I am sure they are bluffing, as I found out how enjoyable online learning can me. I am 40, working and a father of 2 children, time is scarce and this online way of learning with financial aid, I could not ask for anything more. Coursera is helping people like me find a hope of learning at their own pace, place and with their financial aid program helping poor people from developing countries like India see the light at the end of the tunnel. I really am indebted to Coursera for changing my life and helping me dream of a career transition even at this age, as in India if you tell anyone that you are studying at the age of 40, they would laugh and make fun of you.