May 02, 2017
Amazing course, amazing instructors and assignments. I really enjoyed working with Tableau.\n\nYou may experience some confusion for some assignments but don't worry! Just use the discussion boards :)
Oct 05, 2017
I think I loved everything about this class. It wasn't easy, but it was fun and enlightened me on better ways to tell stories and tell stories with data visualization. Can't wait for class 2.
par Mykola S
•Aug 24, 2016
This course is terrible for many reasons. Firstly, the amount of content is ridiculously small - only about 20 minutes of video lectures per week. Moreover, more than 50% of content is just non-relevant.
Secondly, practical assignments are very poorly planned:
1) in weeks 3 peer graded assignment students are asked to save Tableau workbooks as twbx files, even though this feature is not supported by Tableau Public that is used in this course. The assignment itself is just opening and saving file in Tableau.
2) in weeks 4 peer graded assignment you just asked to write some vaguely defined 1 page description. It doesn't include any Tableau-related activities.
Thirdly, quizzes are ambiguous and very general.
Overall, this course is just a waste of time. For comparison, you can easily get more useful information about Tableau from the 4 minute long "Getting started" video on the Tableau website than from this course. Just wonder how Coursera allows such courses to be places on the platform.
par Katrina
•Sep 09, 2018
The content might be ok but the support on this course is ridiculous. Mentors/teachers don't respond in the discussions which means assignments are poorly understood. Then 'peer graded assignments' are a joke - how can a peer grade you when they don't even understand the assignment cause its so poorly written. I got completely opposite grading from two different people, meaning one is clearly wrong but both count as my 'grade' - don't bother with this course, save up a few months and go to a real course where you can speak to the teacher and don't have depend on morons scoring your assignments.
par Juan P H G
•Apr 18, 2019
I'm sorry but this course is just bad. The fact that the assignments are peer reviewed put you in a dead lock. You are at the mercy of "peers" that doesn't even check the answers you provide and are just plainly rude. Disappointing.
par Tumelo M
•Aug 29, 2017
This course is very good intro to anyone that has never done Data Visualization. You get clear understanding of the objectives and the Fundamentals of what Data Visualization is all about.
par Kashyap M
•Feb 07, 2019
It's a good course. I am currently in the second course in this specialization and it has already captivated me in the world of Tableau.
Also, the energy of Govind Acharya is infectious. It clearly can be seen and heard from his voice how much he is enjoying teaching this course.
par Barbara N
•Jan 19, 2018
I found this to be a disappointing course. Yes, its an introduction and you can't do much in an intro course... but...
The Tableau parts have no real added value on top of what's available for free on Tableau's site.
The Week 3 assignment was very frustrating, it was poorly worded and the instructions to export didn't work for the Tableau Desktop that I had installed as per the course instructions. The assignment should have been a consolidation but it was the first time that we played around with data sources.
The Week 4 assignment did not use Tableau at all.
It would have been much better to have had one example to follow through from start (obtain data, prep, import) to creating a Visualisation that was part of the course work. Then add some assignments that allow you to build on what you've already seen.
In terms of visualisation terms and concepts, this was very light and relied on some other well known (& readily available) material.
As the content was very light I was able to finish the course in a lot less time than the course overview estimates, well, everything other than the confusing Week 3 assignment.
I won't be continuing with the specialisation.
par Barbara S
•Jan 30, 2019
I am so happy I took this course. It provided me with the Fundamentals, encouragement, and ability to practice viz's by watching how they did their own. The book that was assigned was inspirational. Our assignments were challenging and then I challenged myself in creating about eight visualizations.
I was even able to use an if then else sql to create my kpi. Thank you so much for this course.
Wtih gratitude,
Barbara Steinberg
par Kevin R P
•Jan 30, 2019
Great Course! Wonderful delivery of the fundamentals of the software as well as the Data Visualization framework.
par BIJINI C
•Jan 31, 2019
really good
par Vignesh
•Dec 19, 2018
Good for beginners
par Abhijeet N
•Jan 10, 2019
This is course is great for those who are new to the world of visualization as they will walk you across the basics of tableau.
par Farin M
•Feb 24, 2019
Good insight on visualization
par Arnab G
•Feb 28, 2019
The course gives a great introduction to the concepts of Data Visualization
par Vinoth
•Feb 28, 2019
very good course for beginners to learn the tableau visualization and basic fundamentals about the visualization concepts
par Tallal N
•Mar 02, 2019
Really good course
par Sebin K T
•Mar 05, 2019
Extremely satisfied by this course! looking forward to more such courses
par Mohammed T
•Mar 08, 2019
Great course
par Bharath k R
•Mar 10, 2019
Wonderful course.
par Shailesh S
•Mar 12, 2019
I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to l
par Gabrielle S
•Mar 18, 2019
I was recently introduced to Tableau and felt that the learning curve was too high to undertake. I search for and found a classes that I could take to build up my confidence and abilities towards conquering Tableau. I would definitely recommend these courses to people interested in the exciting field of big data.
par Kingsley
•Mar 18, 2019
Awesome
par John S
•Mar 18, 2019
Excellent!
par Abhishek s
•Mar 20, 2019
Very well structured, comprehensive and easy to understand. Very Helpful!
par René G B
•Mar 20, 2019
Great course
par Janice W
•Mar 23, 2019
Excellent professors that really explain the concepts of WHY you do something. Better than the F2F course I took at my local community college.