About the Course
Top reviews
RN
Mar 2, 2023
I enjoyed this course! Great Instructors and Teaching Staff. Loved the Syllabus
CB
Dec 2, 2022
Demanding for beginners but rewarding. A lot of extra-curricular study required
26 - 50 of 51 Reviews for Data Analysis with R
By Janier R
•Oct 14, 2022
nice cours , thanks
By Suvegan G
•Nov 17, 2021
Course is very good.
By gerald m
•Jul 31, 2023
Excellent course
By Kyla M T D C
•Jul 1, 2022
learned a lot!
By Wahab A
•Feb 27, 2023
Best Course.
By Janna D
•Jul 10, 2022
nice course
By Ahnami A
•Jul 17, 2024
Fantastic
By Krishna S A T
•Apr 11, 2023
VERY GOOD
By Kevin Q
•Nov 10, 2022
next onE
By Ramzi B S
•Sep 3, 2023
Great
By B A
•Oct 9, 2024
Good
By Eslavath S
•Sep 17, 2024
nice
By James J
•Apr 17, 2025
A good course for learning data analysis skills. My one critique is that model evaluation section was possibly a little overly complicated for non-academic professionals(for example I found lasso and ridge modeling very difficult to understand). Besides that it was a very interesting course.
By Deependu G
•Oct 1, 2023
The only problem for me was understanding that lab practice problems are in Jupyter Notebook, instead of the R script! Strange but dealt with it!
By Respect M
•Sep 24, 2022
this course is not for the week, its not challenging but you have to litle dictated...
By Fateme E
•Jan 16, 2024
This course was more theoretical than practical
By Franchesca L R D
•Apr 18, 2022
A few issues but fixable.
By TheNanoDudE D
•Jun 29, 2023
Honestly, I was a little underwhelmed by the way this course was delivered. There were a number of new and complex topics that were introduced but were very poorly discussed, including tidy models using recipes, and regularization using lasso and regression. Some of these things were quite new to me, and it would have helped to get specific practice. Alternatively, it seemed the course tried to cover too many things, and things like the recipes could have been dropped. I also did not understand why I ended up spending so much time setting up a Watson account, when my time was limited on it, and I could have done the project in the Jupyter notebook anyway.
By Chris D
•Apr 7, 2025
I actually really liked the course.....until the final project!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I spent more time dealing with the IBM WatsonX and GitHub b.s. than that actual final project and I never found out why. In the end all I had to do was submit screen shots of the code, which I could have done from Jupyter. The real issue is that in WatsonX there was an issue with the tidymodels library so I could not run most of the code. Now why would you have us work in WatsonX, tell us to load tidyverse and it wont use 3/4 of the functions. Anyway, if you either got rid of WatsonX part or had WatsonX have the tidyverse lobrary fully functional then this was outstanding.
By Carol W
•Nov 8, 2024
It might help students if a portion of this course were required prior to the SQL etc courses.
By Ulrike B
•Dec 11, 2024
The AI grading was incorrect. E.g. 0 points were given, although task was correctly done
By MARÍA A R R
•Jun 29, 2025
las bases del trabajo final no funcionan
By Brad C
•Oct 11, 2024
The first four modules are pretty good, albeit fast-paced. Module 5 presents a lot of information too quickly; it would be better split across multiple modules and more labs. The AI grader for the final project seems overly harsh/buggy and it was challenging to figure out what needed to be included in the screenshot to get credit.
By Sarah W
•Jun 19, 2025
lots of technical issues! :,( for example, IBM db2 Lite is no longer a thing, many code chunks include deprecated code, Watson Studio did not have a place for the redeem code without using credit card. Also, some of the labs had paragraphs out of order, was very confusing.
By Bohdan B
•Dec 1, 2025
This course is a mess. I worked a lot with R before - mostly self taught. So my motivation of taking this course was that I wanted to get an official certificate proving my knowledge. Generally speaking, while the way they code here in this course may be fine for little projects, it will cause you to experience issues in bigger ones, because it is highly inefficient - mainly through unnecessarily defining new data frames in each and every step. When coding this way, you will get very high run times if you work with even slightly larger data sets, and frankly, chances are you may be not able to grasp your own code at some point when working more complex projects. Secondly, you will at several points encounter stuff that does not work properly - e.g. some codes in the labs, the link to the data set for the assingment. This was quite frustrating, honestly. Overall, I spend more time setting up their IBM-own Watson studio than on any practice lab. Do people at IBM think, that making us use Watson studio for their courses will lead to people actually deciding to pay for that service in the long run? Concerning data analysis projects - after this brief look - I would say RStudio offers by far a better environment. Third, the statistical concepts are poorly explained. If you already have good knowledge of those topics and only search for a way to get certified you might be pleased by the pace. But good luck if you don't. In some ways, one might think it is quite arrogant to think that one can explain complex topics like overfitting/underfitting/L1- and L2-penalties and their implications, which are handled in several lectures in real courses, by using 2-3 videos of less than 10 minutes. I did not understand, why this was even discussed in this course, especially after seeing how superficially regression models were presented. I am not sure if the instructors even have a good understanding of the mathematics in place here. Overall this course fulfilled my personal objective, but I would highly recommend not enrolling in this course if your knowledge on the topics discussed in this course is not already sufficient.