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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Data Science Math Skills by Duke University

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About the Course

Data science courses contain math—no avoiding that! This course is designed to teach learners the basic math you will need in order to be successful in almost any data science math course and was created for learners who have basic math skills but may not have taken algebra or pre-calculus. Data Science Math Skills introduces the core math that data science is built upon, with no extra complexity, introducing unfamiliar ideas and math symbols one-at-a-time. Learners who complete this course will master the vocabulary, notation, concepts, and algebra rules that all data scientists must know before moving on to more advanced material. Topics include: ~Set theory, including Venn diagrams ~Properties of the real number line ~Interval notation and algebra with inequalities ~Uses for summation and Sigma notation ~Math on the Cartesian (x,y) plane, slope and distance formulas ~Graphing and describing functions and their inverses on the x-y plane, ~The concept of instantaneous rate of change and tangent lines to a curve ~Exponents, logarithms, and the natural log function. ~Probability theory, including Bayes’ theorem. While this course is intended as a general introduction to the math skills needed for data science, it can be considered a prerequisite for learners interested in the course, "Mastering Data Analysis in Excel," which is part of the Excel to MySQL Data Science Specialization. Learners who master Data Science Math Skills will be fully prepared for success with the more advanced math concepts introduced in "Mastering Data Analysis in Excel." Good luck and we hope you enjoy the course!...

Top reviews

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Apr 17, 2020

Hi it is very helpful to me. Concept is properly explained. I enjoyed learning process. Expect some more courses on data science as well as on python which involves real time application.Thanks a lot.

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Jul 23, 2017

This is neat little course to revise math fundamentals. I generally find learning probability a little tricky. This course helped me a lot in better understanding Bayes Theorem. Thank you professors.

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By Jinwuk

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Aug 26, 2018

This course is absolutely helpful for the beginner.

Really good to remind of my uni math class!

By Ahmet G

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Jul 8, 2022

thanks for your valuable helps. It really helped me to remember a lot of things that , forgot.

By Rajendra K

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Jun 25, 2020

Learning of Basic Math skills is very much essentials for Data Science and it helped me a lot.

By Maria T C

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May 24, 2020

The review was comprehensive. The latter part of the course really helped me a lot. Thank you!

By Anuj S

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Mar 29, 2018

This course was very good. Adding few advance topics like various distributions will help too.

By Steve T

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Mar 21, 2017

Great course covering the fundamentals which I had largely forgotten (not used) since college.

By Laije B

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Aug 2, 2025

tres bon cours, j'ai pu retrouver quelques notions utiles que j'avais oublié . merci beaucoup

By Tiago T

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Jan 23, 2023

Great introduction to key concepts, from someone with no previous experience on the subjects.

By Konstantin B

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Nov 5, 2021

The first three Weeks are starting with the basics but the last one is escalating quickly :-)

By Sabyasachi C

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Feb 10, 2021

Very very useful course to build the foundation in discrete maths, probability and statistics

By Karthick .

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Apr 17, 2020

This course so good .I have learned so many things and it's very useful.coursera is the best.

By Alireza G

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Aug 27, 2017

I was looking for such a course that particularity covers the Math required for Data Science.

By Błażej B

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Apr 2, 2017

Very condensed yet accessible material. Great invitation for further, more deep dive studies!

By Abhinav

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Jul 17, 2020

This is very amazing course , I am very lucky that I join in this course.

Thank ! u, Coursera

By Leandro L

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May 18, 2020

Very good basic maths course, useful to remember the basic concepts from pre-calculus times.

By Swastik A

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Apr 25, 2020

Nice,

In my engineering classes I have red these topics so it was really fun to exercise more

By 施捷

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Jan 1, 2020

Two lecturers cooperated with each other quite well! And I enjoyed those real-life examples.

By AISHWARYA B

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Feb 26, 2019

It is a very useful for learning basic mathematics which are required to learn data science.

By Ankita O

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Nov 12, 2017

Excellent course with excellent examples and challenging test. Really enjoyed the course!!!!

By Dr. R M

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Nov 11, 2021

very much useful sessions on each topics. Learnt so many concepts through out the sessions.

By Aniket K P

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May 30, 2020

Very Informative and Helpful for all the students...

Seen DataSkill into an another level...

By G D D 1

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May 8, 2020

Topics very well explained with appropriate examples. The quiz really helped me to improve.

By Francisco A

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May 10, 2019

Great introduction to the required math skills necessary to apply data science. Very useful

By Sujo M

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Apr 17, 2025

It would be the best option for someone who wants to develop math skills for data science.