Review of the First Three Johns Hopkins Coursera Data Science Courses
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#4To employers out there, how much does the fact that a candidate completed a Coursera/Udacity course factor into your decision to hire him? Does it matter if he paid for the certificate?
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#5To employers out there, how much does the fact that a candidate completed a Coursera/Udacity course factor into your decision to hire him? Does it matter if he paid for the certificate?
0, pretty much the same as a traditional degree. It wouldn't even cross my mind to ask about the certificate.
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#6To employers out there, how much does the fact that a candidate completed a Coursera/Udacity course factor into your decision to hire him? Does it matter if he paid for the certificate?
0, pretty much the same as a traditional degree. It wouldn't even cross my mind to ask about the certificate.
The certificate does not matter to me, but completing the course is a bonus if the candidate mentions it. It demonstrates to me the ability to affect self-improvement.
Re: Review of the First Three Johns Hopkins Coursera Data Science Courses
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
0, pretty much the same as a traditional degree. It wouldn't even cross my mind to ask about the certificate.
The certificate does not matter to me, but completing the course is a bonus if the candidate mentions it. It demonstrates to me the ability to affect self-improvement.
I'm about to finish the ML course (after 3 tries.) And essentially you have to battle the huge amount of boredom and keep doing it week after week without stop. Just yesterday I took a quiz without even watching the lecture or anything: scored 4.5/5. Proceeded to finish the programming assignment, again without bothering with the lecture, 100/100. Not to say I won't watch the lecture later, I want to make sure I know exactly the way it's done (will do today probably, I wanted to finish the assignments fast this week because last I almost passed the deadline.) But they are passable without that much effort. Just persistence.
Re: Review of the First Three Johns Hopkins Coursera Data Science Courses
#8I am probably not the typical student for these courses. I already work as a data scientist. Additionally, I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, and the author of several Artificial Intelligence (AI books)
Coming from HN, this is one of the great things about Coursera courses for me. But it seems to freak out some students when the bar for top of the class is set by people with extensive professional backgrounds. [1] What can make for a corrosive environment is that there is often someone who stokes their ego by talking about how easy the course is in the forums...though this is rarely anyone at Jeff Heaton's level [or an HN'er].
[1] I took an introductory programming course with an HNer who had been on a c++ technical committee. But I am used to looking around the table and not seeing the dimmest bulb in the chandelier.
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#9To employers out there, how much does the fact that a candidate completed a Coursera/Udacity course factor into your decision to hire him? Does it matter if he paid for the certificate?
0, pretty much the same as a traditional degree. It wouldn't even cross my mind to ask about the certificate.
You wouldn't consider a traditional degree to have value in the field of "data science"? So to you, "data science" is indeed truly defined as "statistics without a proper statistical background"?
(It's an honest question, since that's my impression of "data science" as a statistician)
Re: Review of the First Three Johns Hopkins Coursera Data Science Courses
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The certificate does not matter to me, but completing the course is a bonus if the candidate mentions it. It demonstrates to me the ability to affect self-improvement.
I'm about to finish the ML course (after 3 tries.) And essentially you have to battle the huge amount of boredom and keep doing it week after week without stop. Just yesterday I took a quiz without even watching the lecture or anything: scored 4.5/5. Proceeded to finish the programming assignment, again without bothering with the lecture, 100/100. Not to say I won't watch the lecture later, I want to make sure I know…
I've become good at understanding lecture videos played back at faster than real-time. Sometimes I can get up to 2x playback speed with VLC and still understand what's being said. It'd be so boring watching things in real-time. I'm so glad Coursera let you download videos so you can do that.