Liked the practical part and the instructors.

N​ote book for the last week is missing!

good for spark-ml, bigdata beginer

I found it very interesting.

Happy to attend this course.

Muy buen curso

Great!!

This course was a good introduction to Spark SQL, but they tried to cram too much into one course and ended up not being very clear about most of the material. This could be broken down into a specialization and it would be more effective. I got through by Googling a lot, and I already have a background in Machine Learning, but for someone new to the material it would be overwhelming. I wish they'd explained things like how parallelization works more effectively instead of rushing through too much material. The instructors clearly know their stuff, but they need to work on breaking these concepts down for people who don't have much experience in computer science.

I was disappointed because I still don't know how to insall Spark in my PC. I tried to install but it doesn't work. So I think it would be better if we could learn how to use Spark without Databricks. And the content is too superficial.

Es un curso muy interesante pero le aumenta mucho nivel que este en idioma ingles, deberían sacar cursos de SQL en español para solo concentrarnos en aprender los querys y no tratar de también traducir y entender lo que piden en ingles.

Even though the course is informative, it lacks support from course instructors. You would find many unanswered questions on the discussion board. Coursera should look into that.

plus points:

detailed notebook & easy to use environment

acceptable slides & course videos

cons:

almost no distributed stuffs at all

not diving deep into spark internals

video quality needs to be improved. Be careful about the last assignment. The accuracy asked in the question is the accuracy over the training data.

Less DataBricks and more Spark would be better. The content was well done, but I was put off by all the DataBricks stuff getting in the way.

There is not updated notebook with the last spark release, it's very confusing and a lots questions into the forum

great course. but the last assignment has too many coding problems to fix after q2. dont know why

difficult for new beginners to learn

databricks is a good platform but their free version of it is lacking support for the coursera lesson

I​ COULDNT LOAD THE FILE IN DATA BRICKS AND COULDNT GET A RESPONSE SO I COULDNT COMPLETE THE CERTIFICATE

N​one useful at all. Don't expect to start to write anything realistic after this course

More and more difficult the courses go, where they stop nobody knows.

Doesn't work if you are not in the USA!