SB
Oct 21, 2020
Hello Gentlemen,
This course was very helpful foe me. It enhanced my knowledge about Big Data Integration. Thank you so much for providing me such important knowledge. Thank you once again.
AA
Mar 5, 2018
It was a good course, it could have been better if some examples of Spark were also provided in other Languages like Java, people without having background of python may find it difficult.
By Ferran G
•Jan 9, 2020
Low score because professor team/staff seemed to completely ignore discussion forums. A lot of participants have had problems running shell scripts and other setup instructions that are necessary to perform some tasks, and their posts have been ignored.
By Robert H
•Sep 8, 2017
Tedious exercises through VM where instructions oftentimes do not work out of the box. It is a hassle to download the slides in small sets and their design awful. Definitely one of the worse courses I have taken.
By Klaas v S
•May 19, 2020
The supplied tools are broken in hard to debug ways, as is evident from the discussion forums, where literally thousands of questions are raised. Somebody should do sentiment analysis on these forums, I suppose.
By Agne B
•Sep 7, 2023
Good theory but Hands on exercises are abysmal - extremely outdated and making you spend hours looking into how to get the applications involved to work so you could do the actually assignment.
By Sergey K
•Oct 8, 2016
Quizes are inconsistent with given dataset. Questions are bad: i.e. what is the difference between "number of distinct countries mentioned" and "number of countries mentioned in tweets".
By Enrique C M d C
•Nov 19, 2017
La virtual box de cloudera va muy lenta y es imposible hacer los ejercicios de manera fluida y satisfactoria.
El usuario y la contraseña de Splunk que se proporcionan estan caducados
By Erwin v R
•Dec 24, 2016
I miss a proper buildup from the theory to the practical exercises. Especially the last quiz I found very difficult based on the limited number of exercises presented upfront.
By Brian S
•May 23, 2019
Practice activities files are outdated and a lot of the installation of downloaded tools requires manual fixing, there is no support at all from the course publishers.
By Luis E M
•Apr 9, 2020
Links do not work and you must spent a lot of time in the Discussion Forum to know how to run the programs.
Instructions for the quiz are not clear and confused
By Matt M
•Nov 17, 2016
I had many problems with the final two programming assignments with running Spark in the VM and there isn't a lot of help available online.
By Richard E A M
•Apr 21, 2017
The materials explaining the course are too poor. This is a core course in the specialization.
The quizzes are out of the material's league
By Stephen B
•Mar 29, 2020
Too many different software packages, not enough depth, and no support. Good high level overview.
By Ruijia W
•Nov 17, 2017
1. the whole week 1 and week 2 are useless and not helpful.
2. Plz add more handson sections
By Mayank R
•Apr 8, 2019
This course focuses entirely on theory and there are very few hands on exercises .
By M B A
•Mar 10, 2021
On week 6 Pyspark hands-on, no guidance, un-understandable and not working
By REINALDO L N
•Sep 5, 2019
I had lots of problems with postgresql, could not run the hands-on for it
By Lucas J
•Mar 19, 2017
The VM doesn't work out of the box sometimes for the hands on activities
By Arief S
•Mar 7, 2021
the package error and unsolved in the last excercise
By Oron N
•Feb 12, 2017
Poor presentation of topics, I don't recommend.
By Shu H F
•Aug 24, 2017
Many issues with the VM
By Qian H
•Jul 13, 2017
Soso
By Mark F
•Apr 16, 2017
I think the last project was very badly positioned and explained. First the Coursera is using Cloudera VM, but if you execute and run the Cloudera Express to set the Cloundera environment up the Coursea exercises do not run There should be a warning!. If you do then the simplest Jupyter exercise it fails - this took me about 10 hours to figure out.
Then for the final Project, technically to succeed you must miss country names in all lower case and you cannot match with countries with a 'space' e.g. 'Cape Verdi' and if you try to take any of this into account you do not get the same numbers to pass the test. There needs to be some warning on how to interpret and manage the files so that you get the same numbers being asked for in the test. Again this too me about 10 hours to resolve. Both resolutions ONLY because another colleague is doing the same course and we problem solved together. THIS IS AN AWFUL EXERCISE in frustration due to incomplete details. Not a learning exercise. Just AWFUL....
By César G M
•Jul 16, 2017
In week 3 I was asked to give up my personal information to a 3rd party in order to complete this course, including full name, email, telephone, zip code and permission to send spam to my email. This is not acceptable.
As I used a fake telephone number they denied my registration:
"Denied Person
Thank you for your interest in Splunk.
Please be patient as we assess your registration at Splunk.com. This process may take a few days. If you do not receive a welcome email from Splunk after 2 business days, feel free to contact support@splunk.com. Be sure to provide your full name, complete mailing address, email, and the Splunk.com username you created during your registration. We will respond as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding."
I'm pretty sure you can work something with Splunk to provide a direct link for future editions of this course so your students don't have to give up their privacy in order to complete it, as you're giving that company the publicity anyways.
By Sun W
•Sep 21, 2019
Content-wise is okay.
Hands on material is not properly prepared. Software installation has some many errors, even the course is using a standard VM. This shows the provider paying little attention to prepare the course material. Very disappointing attitude.
Another error spotted, mongoexport give wrong instructions.. using the instruction, there is no way to extract just the tweets column. I really doubt if the instructors have ever tested on whatever they have provided to the students lol
I dont know how can i express my disappointment to this course. Quiz instructions are very unclear as well. If the instructors have ever tried their own instructions, they would discover these naive mistakes. Please be responsible when selling knowledge
By Reeja R G
•May 24, 2020
The contents are too old, its time to upgrade. And it only has very less basic theory with lots of unnecessary theory part which dont even explains anything useful. In spark only wordcount example, nothing else. Not even efficient or useful even for a beginner. I will never recommend this course. Its better to choose free on very cheap courses in Udemy which have good content, practicals and examples. Or even youtube free courses are far better. Here they have included splunk, after going through the course I googled to understand what actually splunk is. Total waste. I am cancelling my subscription today.