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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Exploratory Data Analysis by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

This course covers the essential exploratory techniques for summarizing data. These techniques are typically applied before formal modeling commences and can help inform the development of more complex statistical models. Exploratory techniques are also important for eliminating or sharpening potential hypotheses about the world that can be addressed by the data. We will cover in detail the plotting systems in R as well as some of the basic principles of constructing data graphics. We will also cover some of the common multivariate statistical techniques used to visualize high-dimensional data....

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CC

Jul 28, 2016

This is the second course I have taken from Roger Peng and both were outstanding. I have a strong math background, but not much of a background in stats, but this course was very approachable for me.

YF

Sep 23, 2017

Very good course! It provide me the foundation in learning how to plot and interpret data. This will definitely strengthen my "R programming" to generate publication type figure for my genomics data!

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By Ahmed M

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Aug 24, 2016

The course is quite good and informative in the first two weeks covering a lot of information and a lot of exercises.

Week 3 is very unrelated and hard the videos and exercises are bad, and I had to do this part by myself again.

Also when we get to the final course project doesn't cover any of these techniques.

In my opinion, week 3 should be replaced with something more related to plotting systems and distributions, also one project would be enough.

By Andrei V

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Jun 10, 2016

The course covers very limited subset of plots and mostly oriented to R-specific technical routines rather than overall approaches. Case-study example is helpful and contrary to the most comments I do appreciate the final course project: this how most problems are stated in real life. If you would like to cover more fundamental concepts behind exploratory analysis I would recommend other sources.

By Mohammad A A

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Mar 11, 2019

It was a very useful course with some meaningful homework. My only criticism is that sometimes the theory and the practice are not well connected. Particularly the discussion of PCA, hierarchical clustering, k-means clustering and others. It would be benefit by providing more meaningful reading for those interesting in better connecting the two

By Arne S

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Aug 31, 2019

did not like the swirl-tutorials. they were very tedious and sometimes labelled correct commands as false (e.g. when you typed = instead of <- for assigning a value to a variable)

also I was surprised that for a beginner programming course in R you had to apply specific functions such as grepl without the function being introduced in the course

By Calvin L

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Oct 6, 2023

A little confusing at points and I wasn't interested in the content after week 2. Week 3 requires some prerequisites on linear algebra and statistics and I am not super sharp on those just yet, though the matrix bit seemed familiar. I got out what I wanted anyways, being able to program in R and plotting basic stuff on it too though.

By Haggai Z

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Aug 27, 2017

unfortunately this course was not in the same class as earlier courses

cases presented were not interesting or self explained.

concepts were wage and the lectures were boring

i think i need to take parallel course for the same knowledge targets i want to really understand this

By Thomas G

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Apr 26, 2016

A lot of broken swirl(), which wouldn't be so bad except *a lot* of this course is based entirely on swirl(). Also the swirl() text was almost verbatim of the lectures one has just watched.

All in all, good information, but the swirl() badly needs an update.

By Ray O C

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Dec 29, 2016

The first two weeks were good. The third was a bit confusing and the 4th one just felt like padding. A more in depth study of ggplot would probably be more beneficial as I felt like we were only scratching the surface with it

By Toby K

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Mar 1, 2016

Excellent overview of plotting and clustering. However, there were a few bits that were required for good completion of the projects that weren't covered in detail. Overall an excellent course and specialization.

By Ralph M

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Mar 8, 2016

Good course overall. There tends to be many lectures that are just lists of commands. Also, they don't seem to be updating the material. Many lectures are several years old and still have typos in them.

By Shorouk A

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Oct 22, 2021

The course only provide how to use the tools technically, but not statistically. also the only hands-on complete project is peer-reviewed, which means we don't get to know what we need to improve, etc.

By Samer A

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Mar 30, 2018

It's pity that the final assignment doesn't involve the clustering and the principal component analysis. It was quite a demanding topic and I was looking forward to practicing it through solving tasks.

By Fabiana G

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Jun 23, 2016

Course feels somewhat abandoned by instructors. Content is okay, but can't help the feeling that it's basically a cash cow - students would benefit a lot if instructors were move involved.

By Ashish T

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May 5, 2018

Great introduction to the plotting libraries in R and visualization of data.

However the introduction to hierarchical clustering, and Principle component analysis was extremely vague.

By Asier

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Mar 10, 2016

The course content applies to R. The teachers focused on the programming language rather than the application of the existing graphs to explore data.

By Gianluca M

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Oct 13, 2016

A nice introduction to the three plotting systems in R. The second part is devoted to clustering, but it is not detailed enough to be really useful.

By Andreas S J

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Oct 4, 2017

Important and interesting stuff - but lots of it is repeated too much, which make it seem like 4 weeks is too much for the material.

By Dylan P

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May 13, 2018

I would have liked an assignment to focus on the clustering methods and I think dimension reduction was reviewed way too quick.

By ozan b

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Feb 5, 2017

Course is good in general but "HIERACHICAL CLUSTERING" part is hard to understand and is not clear, should be explained more.

By Casey B

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May 12, 2016

Good class - links and slides have not been updated recently. Frustrating to finish without the exact linkts to the data.

By Katharine R

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May 3, 2016

Good course, but the SWIRL exercises (and a few quiz questions) needed to be updated for the latest version of ggplot2.

By Johnny C

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Mar 6, 2018

In general was good, but there were some lectures and exercises which were disorganized ("plots with colors")

By Erkan E

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Jun 24, 2016

I wish there several comprehensive examples of exploring some real data as guided by the course instructors.

By Mehrdad P

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Aug 25, 2019

The course was overall ok, but I wish discussions about k-means, PCA and SVD were divided into two courses.

By Daniel P

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Dec 8, 2019

I've learned plotting in R. I expect to learn more in four weeks of "Data Science" specialization.