The instructions given throughout the labs as well as the final assigments need to be made more clear. At times there were confusing.

I really love the skill am aquiring as it will help me to adavnce my career .Thanking Coursera team for this great opportunity

Includes incredibly irrelevant questions of type what did person X say in video Y. Does not actually test knowledge on the topic

Excel was ok, But Instruction on Cognos was very much inadequate. I feel like I learn't excel but not Cognos.

This course needs to be updated as it did not always align with the exact way that it is set up on cognos.

Last teacher's lecture (Kevin) was very bad and some answers dont't match with the Excel for web version

IBM Cognos is not a common dashboard making tool in the market!! Teach us Power BI or Tableau instead.

Cognos is somewhat broken for our purposes.

Unfortunately, the course requires several updates.

The course was quite informative, but I found the instructions sometimes unclear and confusing

IBM Cognos is not used widely, PowerBI or Tableau would have been an appropirate choice.

Sound quality of videos was low and presentation was a bit jumbled

the qulaity of video and volume were low and unsatisfied.

Quite a bit tougher than I thought it was going to be.

Need to improvise in submission and uploading files.

Faltan subtítulos y no deja traducir las tareas

ME GUSTARIA MAS VIDEOS QUE LECTURAS

The instructions do not always work

I felt it can be more interactive.

.dwbh

good

Information on quizzes sometimes does not correspond to material previously covered (comes from future material instead). Material on quizzes has more to do with unimportant details about trainings (to prove you listened to their exact videos) than about skills that you need for the workplace. The types of graphs presented were often given without a usecase or proper explanation of when you would use them vs other graphs or the comparative advantage of that type of graph; the details given are not useful for the data analyst position. Practice exercises do not give you goals to complete, so you cannot attempt to work through an example on your own—you must follow very small and concrete steps, which does not prepare you for performing the task on your own and the analysis skills you need to complete similar tasks on your own. In addition, they skip over giving you practice of foundational skills (data cleaning, creating appropriate pivot tables, etc.) This is especially a problem because this field (data analytics) is a space which is the OPPOSITE of handholding, and needing to understand how to solve problems is 95% of the job. Time estimates are extremely overstated (such as an estimated 10 minutes to read 2 sentences of summary, or 45 minutes to complete an Excel task that takes 5-10 minutes if following instructions provided, or 45 minutes for a 5 minute submission) to the point that the estimated 13 hours of course can easily be completed in 4 hours (when you exclude the parts of the videos which are summarizing “we are about to tell you” and “we just told you how to…”)

The final assignment is terrible, it only allows you to submit 1 file for Part 2 and specify it's for "Sales". It's really confusing where to submit the file for "Service", I combined these 2 files and submitted it together, but the reviewer didn't find it and gave me 0 points. it's not their fault, it's because the setting is unclear. The score doesn't affect anything, but it makes me look like a joker after spending an hour completing it and spending 10 minutes trying to export it as a PDF only to find out that I have to use Edge instead of Chrome.

I wish the data viz customization lessons went deeper into how the different options can tell better stories. This course only went over cosmetic changes, without even explaining when such cosmetic changes could be leveraged effectively. Also, while I understand that Cognos is included in this program as an IBM product, it feels quite clunky and counterintuitive to use in 2025.

You have to sign up for Cognos Analytics, which is not for free after 30 Days. There are so many applications, which are open source.

the cognos analytics teaching is very short and very hard to understand especially with the voice over in that video