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For anyone interested I posted a review of the Data Science Specialization that I paid for and completed:

http://sookocheff.com/post/datascience/datasciencespecializa...

I also completed this specialization, but unpaid so did not do the capstone project. I agree with most of your take/skip assessments. The Statistical Inference course was particularly disappointing. I recommend the excellent Data Analysis and Statistical Inference (https://www.coursera.org/course/statistics) to fill in that missing area of learning.

I was just about to sign up for the Statistical Inference class, and happened to read some reviews before hand. I'm glad I did. A number of people have pointed out how that class diverges from the others, becomes very math heavy without covering basic pre-requisites, etc. Everybody is saying to make sure you've taken a least a basic Statistics class before taking that one, and since I haven't had a Stats 101 class, I'm going through a bunch of Stats material before signing up for this class.

I'm still going to take it since I want to finish the specialization, but I'm glad I didn't wind up diving into it blind. I think I would have struggled with it if I had.

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