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University of California, San Diego

Probability and Statistics in Data Science using Python

University of California, San Diego via edX

Overview

The job of a data scientist is to glean knowledge from complex and noisy datasets.

Reasoning about uncertainty is inherent in the analysis of noisy data. Probability and Statistics provide the mathematical foundation for such reasoning.

In this course, part of the Data Science MicroMasters program, you will learn the foundations of probability and statistics. You will learn both the mathematical theory, and get a hands-on experience of applying this theory to actual data using Jupyter notebooks.

Concepts covered included: random variables, dependence, correlation, regression, PCA, entropy and MDL.

Taught by

Alon Orlitsky

Reviews

1.8 rating, based on 32 Class Central reviews

3.6 rating at edX based on 11 ratings

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  • This course is demanding. There are 13 sections and each one has 5 to 7 videos, with each of them being up to 30+ minutes long. I did it in Audit mode (ie I didn't pay anything and didn't do the final exam in proctored mode). Given that, it is am…
  • This review was written after finishing 7 of the 10 sessions. The schedule is unreliable, with many delays (3 weeks of delay after 7 weeks). This is a boring course, too many mathematical proofs, with long-winded videos and dull scholarly examples…
  • Anonymous
    IF you work full time and don't already have a MS or PhD in mathematics/computer science I feel that this course will be too time consuming to complete. Run away. I really tried to like this course, but in the end I feel I have learned little and b…
  • Anonymous
    I just finished this course as part of the UCSD Micromasters Program in edX so I just battled through it (spending ~15-20 hours/week studying). Otherwise I probably would've given up. Nevertheless, in spite (or because) of the challenging nature of…
  • Anonymous
    I have received a passing grade on the course and finished 9 out of 10 weeks now on the verified track (10th week is not available now due to a delay, which is very typical for majority of the weeks on first iteration of this class). I have to say…
  • Anonymous
    If you do not have time to kill, I would give you a friendly advice to choose other courses on probs and stats. The lecture videos are pretty lengthy, some even reaching an hour, only for you to eventually realize that there is a disconnect between…
  • Anonymous
    I cannot describe just how terrible this course is. The only reason I am continuing with it so far is because I wrapped myself in by applying for the micromasters after taking the first course (which was great). Before I provide my pro/cons list kn…
  • Anonymous
    I really cannot recommend this course at all. For somebody with the required prerequisite background stated by the instructors, I felt no where near qualified to understand most of the content. It is extremely heavy on mathematics, which is what I…
  • Anonymous
    Wow, this was literally the worst online course I can imagine. The lectures are long and full either irrelevant information or super complicated examples. The lecturer switches between reading out every single number of a table or jumping over a com…
  • Anonymous
    This course is way too long for a 10 week 10 hours per week course. This is as a lot of the seminars are over 15 minutes long and some are 27 minutes long with a lot of incoherent mumbling/off topic rambling. A lot of times the assignments were diff…
  • Anonymous
    This course covers a huge amount of pretty challenging material, from sets to PCA, via combinatorics, probability distributions and hypothesis testing, and could be easily split in 2 if not more courses. Video lessons are lengthy AND extremely inten…
  • Anonymous
    The content is not engaging at all, video lessons are much too long (more than 1 hour per topic) and 80% of the time is spent with mathematical proofs instead of real world application examples. This creates a huge disconnect from the lecture and th…
  • Anonymous
    I'm extremely frustrated with this course. I had already familiarized myself with the concepts such as probability and statistics before I took the course, and I thought this course would take me to a deeper level but I was WRONG! Instead, I ended…
  • Anonymous
    I am taking this course as part of my micromaster and I find this course rather difficult and very time consuming. The problem sets given were much much much harder than what was taught in the lecture. I spent more than an hour to solve one problem,…
  • Anonymous
    Almost near finishing the course with securing 59% out of 60% before the final exam which counts as 40% with overall passing grade required of 65%. Feedback on the course: 1) Poorly designed course 2) Lack practical application knowledge hence i am…
  • Anonymous
    This course goes right to the basics of statistics in incredibly fickle detail that means that it takes a lot more than the 10 hours a week that is suggested. The course due to detail and length of presentation would be better if it were 2 or 3 sepa…
  • Anonymous
    This course is awful. The lecture material does not give you a good understanding of the material and you will have to go to other sources (youtube etc.) to figure out how to answer the questions on the problem sets. You will also need to spend upwards of 20 hours/week instead of the 10-12 hours/week claimed by this course.

    The programming assignments are also non-intuitive and could be handled much better.

    There are much better ways of handling a course like this and I am severely disappointed with this course.
  • Anonymous
    Course takes way longer than the suggested 10-15 hours per week for 10 weeks, and is probably closer to 30 hours. The lecturer has a very old and outdated style of teaching, which feels very bland and plain making it difficult to follow the lectures for a long period of time. The problems have a varying level of difficulty, and some of them require knowledge of future videos to complete. I have wasted so much time trying to answer a question, only to realise i could've answered it easily if I had gone ahead and watched future lectures.

  • Anonymous
    Wow there is a lot of content and I am struggling to be able to finish it on time. I work full time and this is definitely more work than 10 hours a week. I have knowledge of calculus and algebra from university courses, but it is still taking me a long time to complete all the tasks. I do not think I will be able to complete the course on time if I do not put in 30 plus hours a week.
  • Anonymous
    I do NOT recommend this course. I have an engineering and math background and found this course to be very time consuming and difficult. There is a large disconnect between what is taught in the course videos and the problems set given at the end of…
  • Anonymous
    It is disapointing to spend 2 times (or more) than is informed to solve 74*(5 to 11) problem sets and use Python in less than 5% of this time.

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