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Good overall, but of much lesser quality than the first two courses in the Data Analyst certification program.

The Cognos bit was sort of rushed, and even though the labs provided guidance for the How-Tos, the Whys and Whats weren't always clear.

As for the Excel portion, the material was important and useful. However, while I understand why the labs are designed for the Web version, I think there should be greater emphasis on teaching how to accomplish the same tasks using the Desktop version too, because it's hard to say in advance what kind of version learners would proceed to work with. On several tasks, I noticed significant differences between Desktop and Web (I use Office 365), and even on the final assignment, I had to divide the work between the the two versions, because not all features were available to me in one (I first created the charts I need the Desktop version for, and then uploaded the workbook to Web to finish the assignment there with the features I could only use there).

Both Cognos and Excel bits should be updated to reflect current terminology and layouts. On multiple occasions, I found myself looking at something that didn't match the instructions, only to realize that feature had been moved or renamed. As for the peer-assessment, please consider it mandatory for reviewers to leave a comment to explain if they dock points - I'm always happy to give full marks where applicable, but I also leave a comment to explain what was missing if I rate it anything less than the maximum (I had a strange experience with someone docking random points off my assignment with no explanation, forcing me to resubmit and wait for a second opinion, only to then receive an almost-perfect score).

The course provides a good foundation for Excel and Cognos skills. The only problem I encountered was with their support. For half a month, I couldn't access IBM Cognos and other lab instructions and thus couldn't complete the course. The support staff never replied to my concerns. Finally, I figured on my own that, for some reason, my ISP/country was being blocked by the IBM course and that a VPN solved my problem.

I enjoyed the course but really struggled to create a pdf of my final assignment on Cognos Analytics at the end, which left me feeling hugely frustrated.

A very good course to learn and practice basics of data visualization. Only glitch is I was not able to download data files for some exercises.

I think the course should have had more hands-on learning projects, but otherwise good

Good course which covers all basics

very good course

good course

The course was nice and fun. It taught me many things, like - 1. Visualizing your data using Charts in Excel 2. PivotCharts and other advanced charts 3. Creating dashboards in Microsoft Excel 4. Creating dashboards and reports in Cognos Analytics, and (optional) Looker Studio 5. Advance capabilities like Blending and Filtering data in Data Source in Looker Studio Some things that I didn't liked about this course are:- 1. The visualization with Cognos and Looker module was not in much detail. Even after completing the whole module, I still have some unanswered questions. 2. I observed that in some places, the instuctions were unclear in both videos and labs. 3. I didn't liked the whold Cognos Analytics part. There is no free or learners variant of this tool available. They only offer us a free trial for a limited days, which will expire by the time you reach the Final Capstone Project of your Professional Certificate program. (That's why, in this course, I focused on Looker instead of Cognos). If they had a free version or a version made especially for learners, I would have chosen Cognos, and given this course more stars. 4. There are no video lectures for Looker Studio. You have to go through multiple readings to understand its workin. Which, in my opinion, is not enough. 5. Final Project. I had made my final project in Looker Studio, and the peers graded me much lower as they were comparing my work to the output of Cognos Analytics. Which is not at all justified.

While I learned how to navigate Excel and Cognos to make elegant visualizations, the videos and activities did not cover why I was completing the steps. The Hands-on activities should be more detailed. I recommend a single sentence for each visualization specifically justifying why the user would want to create each visualization in order to help their analysis.

There is no option to flag a peer review that has been unfairly rated.

More labs if possible.

I think the videos and labs are OK, but the quizzes are basically worthless--in my opinion as a professional in higher education for 20 years. I believe the quizzes should cover the more important concepts presented in the videos rather than trivial details. What I truly dislike is the fact that there is no interaction with actual instructors. The final assignment is graded by peers and absolutely no feedback is given to explain their rationale for choosing a particular value on the assessment rubric. I suppose I should be happy with a 90 on the final assignment, but I should have made 100%. I am irritated that the peer reviewer chose the rubric item that stated some visualizations were incorrect without documenting which one(s) or explaining why they chose that rubric item.

The course was ok, though really basic. Just a glimpse of Excel and Cognos, not enough to really learn how to use them. More like a starting point, which is not bad if you don't aim for nothing more. However, the thing that I really don't like was low quality of video (viewpoints just look like they were made by amateurs, though the provided insights themselves were ok) and the quality of sound in Cognos videos. IBM, I am sure you can do better than that.

The peer review portion was painful. Self-grading with the rubric made me question why one of my "peers" was failing me multiple times. The content was good but this is the first round of peer grading where I feel I the "peer" was blatantly failing without following the grading standards. I would do away with peer grading completely since not everyone seems to be putting in the same standards and effort.

Some of the information about Cognos is out of date and does not match the IBM website. The course does provide decent insight into building simple and meaningful dashboards in Excel and how to use and navigate Cognos.

Cognos is unresponsive and crashes frequently when attempting to do the in course examples. Tableau is a faster and more responsive visualization tool

the most boring basic crap ever the other courses by ibm are great but this is just boring

I need to cancel my registration this

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This course needs and update

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This course is really good because it introduce me with powerful data visualization like IBM Cognos Analytics. But one thing to note that on week 3, the CSV file doesn't have the right data type when it gets uploaded to the Cognos Analytics. So, I have hard time to understand the instruction given in the Hand On Labs 4, 5, and 6. I hope this problem get fixed immediately. Overall, this course make me want to learn more about Cognos Analytics and other data visualization program.