Udacity

Hello Everyone,

As a recent graduate of the Udacity Nano degree program I wanted to outline a brief review of the key elements that will help you decide to take this program or not depending on your knowledge needs.

 

First of all, this program is talking generally about Data gathering, extraction and visualiztions with the help of some programming languages and here are some of its top topics details:

-you will learn SQL starting with basic querying to very advanced quering that will give you the ability to deal with huge amount of data including the concepts of joining tables and selecting specific carteria.

-when it comes to data Python is one of the leading programming languages in data analysis, which you will be using to read CSV files and make your analysis with the help of the libraries (Pandas, Numpy, matplotlib and more)

-Statistics is an essential element in data analysis which you will be learn from absolute beginning like how to get (mean, median and standard deviation) to how to make very large simulations and sampling using python.

 

-R programming langauge is an easy way to conduct complex statistics on your data with simple code as well as great visualiztion and that what you will be learning at some point in this program.

 

-Business Inteliginous tools are great fit to build better data visualiztions for your data, this is why Tableau is including on this program to better assest you have full knowledge of using such tools.

-tools you going to use (Jupyter notebook, Anaconda, Rstudio, Excel and others)

Secondly, which I condsider as the most important part is practicing on real world projects, This program has 8 projects that you will have to finish according to the rubric of each project requirement in order to graduate and take your certification.

 

Why take this program?

Take this program if you want to learn about:

-SQL 

-Python programing for data analysis

-R programing for data analysis

-Statistics

-Tableau

-API integeration

-Data extraction

-Data Scraping

-Data Wrangling

-Data Cleaning

-Data Assessing

 

What type of companies will I use this program in?

Almost all companies that has any sort of data requires some data analysis skills including but not limited to

-Medical companies

-Finance companies

-ecommerce website

-Retail industry

-Hospitals

-Schools

-Factors

-Research

-B2B or B2C company/website

 

Is there any prequists before I join this program?

-there is nearly no prequists for this program since it starts with you from the absloute beginning but I would recommend that you have the potential to search and ask for any part you don't understandf well.

 

Will I find support if I couldn't understand something?

The Udacity Platform consists of a big forum in which you can ask your colleagues as well as mentors who are always available to answer your questions as soon as possible.

 

Overall writer review:

-My evaluation for this program as someone who were always searching to get deeper in the field of data analysis is this program is a very good start, it takes you from zero to hero in all tracks of data analysis which will give you the opportunity to apply directly to jobs as a junior data analyst showing them 8 of great projects worth of knowledge and practice that will prove your skills anywhere.

If you are interested in this program you can directly apply here:

http://bit.ly/data-analyst002

 

I hope this review help all students seek to develp their data analysis knowledge

 

Mohamed

I have taken a lot of online courses on various platforms but Udacity beats all others hands down.

Udacity's curriculum is very rigorous which helps the students to learn the right skills for their chosen programs. The courses are taught by industry experts who are very knowledgeable in their fields. The way the basics and applications in deep learning were explained makes for an easy understanding of the course which helped me solve the projects in the course. 

The best part of Udacity for me is the student community and slack channel. Through this channel, I made friends, study partners, project partners and most of all the help and support from fellow students helped me graduate. Information, tutorials, resources and technical support flow freely the slack which makes it the most valuable part of the Udacity program after the course videos.

I already have other Udacity courses lined up for me. I have already started recommending Udacity courses to my friends, relatives and blog readers who are interested in getting a career in the technology industry. Udacity rocks !!!

I got to know about this program from one of my friends who was very keen on participating in such programs. At first, I thought that I won’t even get a chance to be part of the preliminary round itself which was also done by selecting from the writeups on why we should have this scholarship offered by Google on Udacity. But since all my friends were applying I also applied for it but still I was thinking that it was meant for those who are good coders and developers. One day when I was just checking my mail, I saw one mail stating that I got selected for the Google India Challenge Scholarship: Front-End Web Dev - Udacity. And the most interesting part was that it was in the Promotion part in my mail which I have never checked before ever since I have created my mail, but I still don’t know what made me check that part and checking off which made me extremely happy and made my day because getting an opportunity in such a program which I was thinking was only meant for developers and not for beginners in programming like me. It was the 1st round which was a 3 months crash course on Front-End Web development and on successful completion of which provided an opportunity to get a scholarship on the Nanodergree program. I did well for the first 2 and half months and couldn’t do it well for the remaining half the month due to my exam which again surrendered my mind with the same old thoughts of the not getting selection in this course. But after the completion of the crash course and losing hope of getting selected among 10000 competitors and be one among those 1000 was something out of my imagination. But the course gave me something to learn new land a push towards my web development career.

Once again changing my expectations I got a mail from the Udacity team congratulating me on my selection for Nanodergree program. I was struck with a bolt of happiness and was jumping around like I was the first to climb the Mount Everest and it was first time in my life I was experiencing a joy of that kind since I didn’t expect to be among 1000 out of 10000 competitors looking forward to the scholarship program.

That day I realized that nothing is meant for a special group or special class of people it’s all meant for those who are ready to work hard and grab the opportunity placed in front of them.

This Nanodegree program changed my career as earlier I had an offer from a service-based company and after doing this course I got an invitation to attend an interview in a product based startup and I am currently working here as a Front-End web developer. 

This was a great opportunity to enroll in this nanodegree because it's the most helpful course I had taken. I learnt a lot from it not only how to write code but I learnt how to think before writing code and how to write a professional code and build high performance apps. I recommend this nanodegree for all people who wants to be not only Android Developer but to people who wants to learn how to be a great developer. Finally, I want thank all instructors and all people who helped me in gaining this opportunity and completing the courses in only 3 months. Thanks to you all at Udacity.

Looking at the amazing application on the web I always wanted to create such an application on my own. In 2018 I got an opportunity to learn web development from this Front End Web Developer Nanodegree Udacity as a part of the Google India reskilling program. I got the full scholarship and got enrolled in this nanodegree. From that day the trajectory of my life has changed. I learned web development from the best instructors who are already working in big companies like Google. I also got my personal mentor who helped me along my learning journey and made my experience great. I could take help anytime I wanted and ask any questions for him. Udacity also has its career service where they actually reviewed my LinkedIn and Github profile and helped me showcase my skills better. I interacted with a lot of students on slack and learned how to grow together. I created amazing projects and also work on some open-source projects. My learning experience was so amazing that I was able to get an internship in the 2nd year of my college and now I am working in a Startup (remote role) while still studying in college. In fact, I also got a chance to apply for Udacity mentorship position and guess what, I am just a mentor also. I'm thankful to Udacity that you gave me such a nice Foundation and helped me shape my career.

Hello!

I am a 25 years old Civil Engineering Graduate, I worked for a little more than a year and I did not like my job at the time, and I was applying for a Scholarship launched with a partnership with Udacity and it was the first time I ever heard of the Data Analyst, Data Science or the Data Domain in general, so I looked up the field and I was hooked immediately, I was a bit into programming when I was doing my bachelors in Civil Engineering so I did not find a lot of a hard time learning Python, which is a part of the Data Analyst Nanodegree, although Python was absolutely new to me and I learned it all as a part of the Nanodegree since you don't really need any perquisites!

The program overall was great, the content is amazingly dense and concise, the instructors are really friendly so you do not get bored from hours of lectures and exercises. In addition, needing to complete 4 full projects from A to Z really gives you confidence in your skills and makes you prepare something you can show to your employer!

As for my future plans, I still need to improve my Machine Learning and Deep Learning skills in order to take a full grasp of the Data Science field curriculum wise, so I am currently a part of the Bertelsmann Tech Scholarship Phase 1 in the AI (Deep Learning) Track, as for the Machine Learning part of the endeavor, Udacity has a free course on Spark to actually apply Machine Learning of Big Data!

I really do recommend Udacity if you are planning a career shift or developing your skills in general.

By the way, I have an interview with an employer this Monday for a BI/Data Science Position, which me luck! and good luck to you all in your future endeavors!

I got a fully-funded scholarship at Udacity for the Front End Web Developer Nanodegree program through Google India Scholarships. This program begins with the basics of Web Development to very advanced modern-day applications. Every part of the course is accompanied by projects or at least quizzes, that way we can revise what we had learned and also the videos are not too long which makes it more interesting and less distracting. Each section of the program requires that we submit a project of our own and it is reviewed by moderators. The projects in the nanodegree program are not only engaging but also focusing on even minor things. This way one can be industry-ready. I joined for an internship post this program where my managers where awed by my skills. I'm a freelance front end developer now and I'm grateful that I took up this program at Udacity.